I’m not a literary scholar, but I believe it was Hamlet that said “to have a featured snippet or not to have a featured snippet?” Ever since featured snippets came onto the scene, sites have been trying to secure them. My team and I wanted in on this craze. Throughout our journey of research, testing, […]
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The SEO industry was rocked by the new Featured Snippet update. Google decided to reduce duplicated results in the SERPs and made some changes which would mean that if your site is listed in a featured snippet, it will not be listed in the organic listings below the snippet (in the past, many sites that earned the
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There’s a lot of changes happening to featured snippets. Google still plans to remove them from the right side and into the main listings. But there have been some additional questions raised about how we look at ranking in the SERPs. Rank Ranger’s Mordy Oberstein explains what’s been happening since Jan. 22 and how things
URLs shown in featured snippets that appear in the right rail of Google desktop results will continue to be included in the main organic listings, for the time being, anyway. For now, the right-sidebar featured snippet also appears as a regular listing within the main results column. Why we care Google still plans to remove
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I recently finished a project where I was tasked to investigate why a site (that receives over one million organic visits per month) does not rank for any featured snippets. This is obviously an alarming situation, since ~15% of all result pages, according to the MozCast, have a featured snippet as a SERP feature. The project
The term “host crowding” refers to multiple organic search results from a single domain for the same query. Host crowding makes it harder to break into the first page of results. In what should be good news, Google announced last week that it’s reducing the occurrence of host crowding. So why is the search engine
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Google is pruning extra URLs from search results that contain a featured snippet. Google’s SearchLiaison took to Twitter to issue seven insights about the new policy. Featured Snippets Search Results Update Google used to give a URL two spots in the search engine results pages (SERPs) when that URL ranked with a featured snippet, also
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Pages that earn a featured snippet will no longer repeat as a regular listing on the first page of Google search, Danny Sullivan, Google’s public search liaison, announced Wednesday. The corresponding regular listing may or may not appear as the first result on the second search results page. Why we care For featured snippet owners,
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A new study from seoClarity examines the changes to organic traffic following Google’s featured snippet update on January 22. Earlier this week, Google rolled out a significant update to the first page of search results. Web pages in a featured snippet position will no longer be repeated in regular organic listings. Previously, it was not
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Yesterday Google announced they are removing double organic listings in search results for sites that rank on the first page and also capture the Featured Snippet. This is a large change from Google on how Featured Snippets work, and it is something everyone in the search industry needs to be aware of. More importantly, you need
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