We often hear about Google pulling featured snippets from somewhere in the top ten of the search results, with Google pulling the best example they see for the featured snippet to feature. But Google is now also pulling from page two of the search results to show up in the featured snippet – I have […]
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Google Showing Featured Snippets for Site: Searches
Curious what a featured snippet might look like on your site, but you don’t think you have any active ones? Google will now show featured snippets when doing a site:example.com search with other keywords. Here is one example: Here is another: These are coming up for many sites with a variety of keywords. Here is […]
Don’t Make All Content Q&A For Google’s Featured Snippets
At SEJ Summit Santa Monica earlier this year, Maile Ohye from Google was asked about featured snippets. She mentioned that a good example of content seen in featured snippets at the top of the search results was Q&A type of content where the site is providing information and answers about the topic. This isn’t new […]
Featured Snippets Reporting in Search Analytics Pipeline
Many site owners got excited with Google I/O when screenshots from Search Analytics showed featured snippet reporting in Search Console. Richard Gingras showed off the AMP reporting in Search Console which showed the addition of a few other reports, including featured snippets. At Big Digital Adelaide, I did a fireside chat with Gary Illyes from […]
Do Google’s Featured Snippets Prefer Older or Fresh Content?
If you are trying to land a featured snippet, are you better serving up a brand new page to take advantage of freshness? Or are you better to tweak a currently ranked but older page to make it more appealing as a featured snippet option? While we do see featured snippets change from one site […]
Google Adding Featured Snippets & Rich Results to Search Analytics?
During Google I/O last week, Richard Gingras talked about the new AMP reporting in Google Search Console that launched last week. But interestingly, the screenshot he used showed off something extra… reporting for both featured snippets and rich cards. Here is the screenshot he used. The arrow shows AMP but the other options are “Search […]
Google Featured Snippets Expand to 10 European Countries & Languages
SEO just got a lot more interesting for those in the EU as Google has brought featured snippets to 10 European countries and languages. This means that the featured snippet could be the visual #1 organic result on pages where the search query triggers a featured snippet in the search results. The ten new countries/languages […]
Yahoo Begins Showing Featured Snippets, But Yahoo Answers Only Source
Yahoo has finally jumped on board the featured snippet bandwagon and has followed both Google’s lead by now showing their own version of featured snippets in their search results. But these differ from Google’s version in one major way… the source. Yahoo has decided to only use Yahoo Answers as the only source for their […]
Google Adds “About This Result” to Featured Snippets
Google has made a slight update to the appearance of featured snippets in the search results. They have added a new “About this result” directly below the featured snippet, next to the link that says “Feedback.” Here is how it appears in the search results. This seems to be a widespread change, as it isn’t […]
Google Adds Featured Snippets in Multiple Languages
Featured snippets have been a staple in the English search results for quite some time. But now they seem to have been rolled out across additional languages as well. Dr. Pete Meyerswas the first to notice them rolling out on non-English languages, and many others followed up with screenshots for various languages. Gary Illyes from […]