Google has begin showing betting odds in featured snippets in their search results, that are triggered by including “odds” in the search query along with a person, sporting event, sports team or player. Dan Barker was the first to notice featured snippets being displayed for sports betting odds. Google is starting to (attempt to) show […]
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Google Displays Both Related Questions & Featured Snippets in Same Search Result
We have seen a huge increase in the number of Related Questions showing up in the Google search results, the drop down with the “People also ask” in the box header. But now that we see more of them, we have noticed they often have a chance to also show up with featured snippets in […]
Google Adding Lottery Numbers Featured Snippets
Google is starting to display lottery numbers in the search results as a featured snippet at the top of the search results. Pedro Dias posted this screenshot on Twitter and Google+. This doesn’t seem to be active in the US or Canada as of this writing, but it could be rolling out across languages. This […]
Google Adds Founder & Management Featured Snippets & Rich Lists for Companies
Google has added founder and management information for many large companies into their search results. They appear as rich lists, featured snippets, and carousels, and they appear alongside the traditional knowledge panels that Google has displayed for many companies for some time. The rich lists show up for a variety of companies – both tech […]
Google Adds Featured Snippets & Rich Lists for Books
If you are an avid reader, you will be happy to know that Google has expanded on the number of book related search queries that will now trigger a featured snippet or rich list in the search results. They are showing up for a variety of queries when searching for a book or book series […]
Google Answer Boxes Officially Called Featured Snippets
Those Google answer boxes at the top of the search results have an official name. According to Gary Illyes, they are officially called “Featured Snippets”. The name makes a lot of sense, since they are snippets of text taken from the linked page and they are featured at the top of the search results. So […]
Google’s Featured Snippet Videos Now Overlay in Search Results
Google has made a major change with how featured snippets with a video are done in the search results. Instead of clicking through to the YouTube video landing page, Google is overlaying the video directly into the search results instead. The overlay does not feature any of the YouTube features and is instead a very […]
No Google Plans for a Featured Snippet Specific Meta Tag
While many SEOs are trying to earn featured snippets for their sites in the search results, there are some SEOs who don’t like their content featured in the featured snippets by Google, especially when the answer is fully displayed in the search results. Currently, there is the nosnippet meta tag, but this isn’t the right […]
Google Drops Regular Organic Result For Pages Shown as Featured Snippet
If you are a site with a featured snippet for a search query, you used to get a bit of a bonus – you were shown both as the featured snippet, and then your result was shown a second time as a regular organic listing too. This meant you got top spot showcased as a […]
Google Changes to Longer Snippets for Some Search Results
Google has changed over some of their search results to show snippets that are longer than the standard two lines in length. Instead, some search results are appearing with 3 or 4 lines – or longer in the case of results with structured data. The one thing in common we are spotting with all the […]