Search Results for: featured snippets

For a few years now, Google has sometimes shown featured snippets where the text is from one site, but the image shown within the featured snippet itself is actually from a second site. Last year, Google confirmed that it would continue doing this, and it wouldn’t change how it sometimes selects a more optimal image […]

If you are an SEO, chances are pretty good you have managed to score a featured snippet in the Google search results. But, you probably noticed that the rankings are pretty volatile around featured snippets, and see two sites repeatedly flip-flop in and out of the featured snippet position, even if neither page has changed […]

Should a brand name automatically own the featured snippet for any Google search query that includes their brand name?  And what about if there isn’t a relevant page on the brand’s site to show in relation to the query, but there is on another website?  Should it just go to the best and most relevant […]

It seems that if you have an AMP page and also have the featured snippet that Google will now show the AMP version in the featured snippet. When AMP first came out, Google was still using the mobile version of the page if the page that won the featured snippet also had an AMP version.  […]

Over a year ago, we first started noticing Google showing featured snippets with one source for the snippet itself while using a second source for the image.   Earlier this year, Google began to increase the likelihood of this happening, resulting in some upset webmasters who claimed the featured snippet, only to see a competitor’s thumbnail […]

Google is continuing their widespread test of featured snippets that we reported here first on Monday.  It has Google showing a featured snippet at the top of the search results as usual, but while previously that result would be shown a second time in the organic search results, Google would drop that second listing entirely. […]

When you do a search in Google that brings up a result that includes a page you have visited previously, Google will often add a notation about your visit history, from the date you visited or the fact you have visited the page many times.  Google is now finally bringing that to featured snippets too. […]

Google has updated the feedback forms that users use to submit feedback for both featured snippets and autocomplete. When you view a featured snippet you feel is wrong or inappropriate, there is the usual feedback link, but the updated form has many more options to allow searchers to give more detailed feedback.  Here is what […]