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Google Search Results Explained: Featured Snippets

ClearVoice

Featured snippets are a type of search engine results page (SERP) feature that may appear at the top of an organic search results page—typically the first. Featured snippets were first implemented in 2014 as part of Google’s never-ending mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

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Position Zero Is Dead; Long Live Position Zero

Moz

Posted by Dr-Pete In 2014, Google introduced the featured snippet, a promoted organic ranking that we affectionately (some days were more affectionate than others) referred to as "position zero" or "ranking #0." SERPs with featured snippets will continue to be tagged in SERP Features reporting, and we're working on ways to surface more data.

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Will Your SEO Strategy Be Impacted By Google’s Removal of Right-Hand-Side Ads on SERPs?

Content Standard

As of Friday of last week, Google confirmed that it had permanently removed all right-hand ads on its SERPs (search engine results pages) worldwide, making room for ads at the top and bottom of the page. Though they differ per campaign, Google has reported the average CTR (click-through rate) is around 2 percent. Two percent!

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Will Your SEO Strategy Be Impacted By Google’s Removal of Right-Hand-Side Ads on SERPs?

Content Standard

As of Friday of last week, Google confirmed that it had permanently removed all right-hand ads on its SERPs (search engine results pages) worldwide, making room for ads at the top and bottom of the page. Though they differ per campaign, Google has reported the average CTR (click-through rate) is around 2 percent. Two percent!

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Are Google's Featured Snippets Eating Your Blog Traffic?

Hubspot

In 2014, we celebrated reaching 1.5 The number of featured snippets on search engine results pages (SERPs) has grown 328% since summer 2015. To put that into context, consider that on SERPs with no featured snippet, we found that the first result can expect to bring in about 33% of the total clicks. million views a month.

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How to Develop Content to Target Featured Snippets

Method and Metric

Featured Snippets are one of several unique features available on the search engine results page (SERP) in Google Search. Featured Snippets (formerly known as “Quick Answers”) were introduced in 2014 however, early versions of SERP features (such as the Knowledge Graph) were released as far back as 2012.

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How Low Can #1 Go? (2020 Edition)

Moz

A lot has changed in seven years, including an explosion of rich SERP (Search Engine Results Page) features, like Featured Snippets, local packs, and video carousels. To understand this phenomenon, you have to realize that certain SERP features, like Top Stories and video carousels, take the place of a page-one organic result.

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