Answer questions briefly near the top. Use lists, steps, or tables where helpful for extraction.
AI Overviews appeared from nowhere in August 2024, and now appear on over a quarter of the keywords in this sample (and they’re much more prevalent for informational keywords). Functionally,…
It is not every day that you see a Google featured snippet with emojis and special Unicode characters. Here is an example of one spotted by Nick Churick (hat tip…
Explore how Google’s featured snippets help websites, improve your chances of securing them, and track their performance.
Google is testing a new look for the “from sources across the web” search results feature. This one looks like the multiple features snippets look, with the perspectives design, but…
Earn one of the four types of featured snippets and drive more traffic to your content.
It seems that Google has stopped serving featured snippets in its search results this morning. It started around 7 AM ET today, just about an hour ago. I cannot trigger…
Google is testing a new feature for featured snippets that will animate the highlighting of the text of part of the featured snippet. It looks like Google is manually highlighting…
Over the past few days I’ve seen reports of Google Search testing more visual elements. These visual elements are across featured snippets, top stories, products and likely more.
Google is testing the ability to click on a word in a featured snippet within Google Search and define that word. You can also copy the word, if you want….
Google Search is now rolling out more featured snippets, this is not the new perspectives that it said would be coming at its Google I/O event, despite what I wrote…
Google now shows vertical lines between the featured snippet text and the featured snippet images. This is on the full-width featured snippet, which has a horizontal line below the featured…
In this guide, we’ll discuss the importance of featured snippets and offer ways to improve your chances of ranking at the top of Google.
On Friday, Bill Elward noticed how a featured snippet had a header above it that read “Advertisement.” Bill asked if this was a new Google Ad format from Google for…
After many months of testing, Google has launched the highlights in the featured snippets within the Google search results. Google seems to have gone with the blue highlights, not the…
Featured snippets are a special type of search result showing a quick answer to the search query at the top of Google’s results page. Google pulls this information from one…
In our last episode of 2022, Crystal discusses how featured snippets show up in several different parts of the SERP, giving you lots of good value for organic reach, and…
Google is once again testing showing the featured snippet, aka position zero, not in the first or position zero slot but rather under position one or even further down the…
Ex-Googler offers opinion that uptick in featured snippets is because Google is “concerned about some of the low-quality experiences out on the web” The post Ex-Googler On Featured Snippets: Google…
Google’s featured snippets started as an experiment almost a decade ago. They have since become an integral part of Google’s SERPs, showing up for lots of queries. In fact, featured…
According to both RankRanger and Semrush, Google is showing fewer featured snippets in the search results since Thursday, September 8th. Personally, I am not seeing this when I search but…
Google launched new features in search, one where Google is using MUM to give featured snippets a consensus – it is pretty cool. Google also released new about this result…
Google’s John Mueller was asked for advice on how can he help his client rank in the featured snippets section of the Google Search results. In which, John responded that…
Featured snippets can help boost brand reputation and drive organic traffic. Learn how to optimize for them in this step-by-step guide. The post How to Optimize for Google Featured Snippets:…