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. I think this is a Google Search test and maybe not a Chrome test. This was spotted by Punit who posted a video of this … Read more
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 in the original story. It is basically where Google shows more than one featured snippet, often two or three. We saw this on mobile but … Read more
June 26, 2019 | Posted by Mordy Oberstein It’s always nice when theory meets reality. Not too long before I undertook the research for this study I wrote an article about why I thought Featured Snippets would be getting shorter. To be honest, I was not expecting my search marketing prophecy to come … Read more
September 17, 2019 | Posted by The In Search SEO Podcast Don’t forget, you can keep up with the In Search SEO Podcast by subscribing on iTunes or by following the podcast on SoundCloud! The In Search SEO Podcast Community Question of the Week! Summary of Episode 44: The … Read more
October 23, 2019 | Posted by Mordy Oberstein So you’ve won a Featured Snippet on desktop, does that mean your URL shows within the zero-position box on mobile? How often does the URL that resides within a mobile Featured Snippet match the desktop URL? Does a Featured Snippet even exist on desktop? What … Read more
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 snippet, separating it from the main search results. Now Google added this vertical line. Here is what it looks like (click to enlarge): It is … Read more
January 27, 2020 | Posted by Shay Harel Google’s removal of the URL that appears within its Featured Snippets from the page one organic results has thrown the SEO world into a bit of tizzy. As things begin to settle down, one of the questions we have to deal with is how to … Read more
February 5, 2020 | Posted by Shay Harel What the heck just happened? It seems like everything and everything that was once the Google SERP has been turned on its head in what has been a downpour of serious changes to the results page! Featured Snippet URLs have been pulled from the organic … Read more
February 26, 2020 | Posted by Mordy Oberstein So you’ve won a Featured Snippet… let the traffic flow, right? Not so fast there! What other SERP features are showing alongside your Featured Snippet? What other features are competing for a user’s attention? What SERP features most commonly appear with Featured Snippets? How strong … Read more
March 4, 2020 | Posted by Shay Harel Havoc. That’s how I would describe the February SERP, particularly the unconfirmed update that hit mid-month. With reversal upon reversal, the rankings resembled the sort of discombobulated u-turn a 16-year-old would make on their way to failing their driver’s test for the umpteenth time. Throw … Read more
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