How useful or helpful do you find Google’s featured snippets? Google is interested in finding out, as they are including a section below a featured snippet asking the searcher if it is useful or not. Here is the screenshot: It is just a yes or no response, and it actually shows above another featured snippet […]
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How Retailers Get Featured Snippets for Non-Brand Commercial Keyword Searches
Earlier this year, when I first started noticing commercial sites – such as Amazon and other retailers – showing up with the featured snippet result for commercial intent queries using non-branded keywords, it seemed quite rare. But as the percentage of featured snippets being displayed in the search results increases, so has the number of […]
Gary Illyes’ Recommendations for Getting Featured Snippets
During Gary Illyes’ keynote at State of Search in Dallas, he talked quite a bit about featured snippets and gave some advice for those who are looking to get into the featured snippets. He said pages should either implicitly or explicitly state the question on the page, then answer the question. While he didn’t go […]
Google May Release Documentation Getting Featured Snippets
While there are plenty of SEO tricks to try and get featured snippets in the Google search results, Gary Illyes said that he is pushing to get oddicial documentation released on how to get featured snippets. It would be nice to see something official from Google on this. They haven’t talked much at all about […]
Structured Data Markup Does Not Influence Featured Snippets… Yet
Many SEOs have been busy reverse engineering featured snippets to increase their odds of getting them. But Gary Illyes from Google debunked one of the common rumors that has been floating around recently. During his State of Search keynote Monday in Dallas, Illyes talked quite a bit about featured snippets and one thing he mentioned […]
A New Source For Featured Snippets: YouTube
If you have been unsuccessful getting a featured snippet for some of the how/why queries in your website’s market area, there is a new source popping up in featured snippets – YouTube. What is especially unusual is this featured snippet is taken from result #7 on the page, with there being 5 text based search […]
How to Find Your Site’s Featured Snippets in Google Search Results
Finding featured snippets in the search results for sites you own can be a challenge of trial and error for random search queries you think your site should not only rank for, but show a featured snippet for. But there is a smart way to try and find them for your own site. In yesterday’s […]
Google Adds Expandable Featured Snippets With Knowledge Panel Features
Google is testing a brand new style of featured snippets, this time showing the regular featured snippet at the top of the search results, while also including an additional expandable section that pulls the type of data we normally see in the regular knowledge panels in the right sidebar. This includes things like facts, related […]
Google Still Looking to Add Featured Snippets Info to Search Console
Google is still looking to add data regarding featured snippets into Google Search Console, according to Gary Illyes from Google. Illyes was asked during the Q&A portion of his keynote about what users might expect to see added to the Google Search Console in the near future. Ever since featured snippets began to be more […]
Bing’s Featured Snippets Asking “Is This Answer Helpful?”
Bing has been testing their own version of featured snippets for a very small set of search queries. They appear to be expanding it slightly, but also asking for feedback. When one of the featured snippets displays, it also features two bright blue icons, one for thumbs up and one for thumbs down, so users […]