Are Google’s featured snippets good for bloggers, or bad? It really depends how you look at it. While featured snippets are definitely leading to more and more “no-click” searches, they’ve also given bloggers a huge opportunity to increase their visibility. In this video, you’ll learn how we’re making the best of featured snippets, and using them to send even more traffic to our sites.
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Moz study: https://moz.com/blog/featured-snippets-experiment
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Is it possible to outrank a blog already on featured snippet?
Like if a blog is already winning the snippet on Google, can I outrank the blog and replace it at the snippet?
I was a ESL teacher for a while. What you describe is journalism or writing news articles. I encourage readers to study how to be a journalist or, in other words, a reporter for a newspaper and this could help their blog writing. I can remember when we thought journalism would die with the internet but it's being transformed by algorithms.👍😁
I ranked for almost 50% of my content. But, I was surprised that this September all my snippets were removed.🤔
Great video. You answered just about every question I had on the topic. My only other question has to do with formatting. For example, a list post. For the featured snippet for the keyword phrase I'm targeting, Google added a 1., 2., 3., etc but in the actual post, all they had was bullet points. I like to make each of my steps, list items, etc. into their own H3 or H4 heading. Are bullets the way to go?
3:51 Tactic 1 Write multiple answer targets in each post
4:38 Tactic 2 Write answer targets that indicate there is more to the answer
6:22 Tactic 3 Write headlines that indicate that there is more relevant information
8:46 Tactic 4 Don't write a whole post on one topic that can actually be covered in 300 characters
I don’t even have a blog I just love this page
For those who are still wondering about if it works or not.
Bruh it definitely works 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I just ranked my 2 articles at snippet position by using this method. It's awesome.
It took me approx 72 days to rank on no. 1 position.
I'm so happy right now 😊😊😊
Hi, how I can know if an article won a featured snippet on a query? Is that something I can see in the search console?
BOOM!
Thank you so much for sharing these tactics. Will slowly get them to action and be sharing this video to my fellow writers. 🙂 Please do share more about Google Snippets. I was wondering, is there a section in the post publication process (like the Meta Description) where we put these snippets, or Google automatically detects them from the article? Thanks for answering!
Ricky why you… blurred your own face in that fish tank website?
Mind having a word?
PS – In your Project 24 page… add a Sales Title above the video 🙂
When writing the answer target to the other subheads, is it a good idea to make them bold too?
What's going on with the Income School replies to comments?
Hi
This is not related to this video. But ai have watch many of your videos.
Very recently (2 week old) I have started a website. Niche is 'weight loss' and 'fitneas'. I done keyword research and findout very less search volume keywords. Try to build blog posts around it.
My question is, I get to know that weight loss niche is super competitive. Is it better to change the niche? Because I am still within the first 2 weeks
Thanks for sharing the importance of snippet
Brilliant
I can attest to getting even more traffic now that I am getting featured snippets for multiple answer targets on my articles written in the P24 method.
So simply give the answer within a paragraph
@Income School As regards your point at 4.46 on the video Ricky I am noticing that Google is starting to cherry pick bits of P24 snippets by removing parts that entice a website click. This is happening across the web not just on P24 sites it is just more obvious on those because we create our snippets in a way that lets us see this happening more easily. Google are doing their utmost to keep people on the SERPs (where all the ads are). This means that in your example of outboard motors that would mean cutting off the sentence "They also function very differently causing major difference in cost and maintenance" though there are much more blatant examples were the middle of the snippet has been removed which was serving the same clickbait purpose. I think we will see more of this as the Google algorithm gets smarter at doing it. Since Google sold their soul to the investment sector (The Vanguard Group, Inc et. al.) they have just gotten greedier and greedier year on year. Not long after this acquisition they dropped their long time motto "do no evil" … I wonder why??
Thank for a comprehensive update regarding snippets.
I'm a P24 member and most of these tips are not in the snippet course 🙁 At least the last time I watched the course.
Hey Ricky, this video is really helpful to me as I've been struggling to make my mind about fully embracing snippets/answer-target strategy or not.
I am also considering to join Project 24 and I wonder if you guys have any stats on the % of members that succeed go full time on their blogs after thr 2-year prriod? Would love to hear about that.
greetings/p
how much time does it take on average to win a snippet if you are answering the searcher's question in a freshly written post?
Hello, Ricky. How are you? Thanks for sharing this. I have been trying to implement this on my niche site. My concern is, when I use my SEO tool, the snippet has no search volume. Anyway, I still want to give it a go. Hopefully, I can share positive results soon. Take care.
Often time when I search and get an answer from a snippet I do not click. However often times I do click because the answer in the snippet tens to spark another question and I click to see if the article answers my new question.
LOL! This has got to be one (FUN) Special VDO by Ricky the Godfather.
Titled: How to give Google and the Reader an Offer They Can't Refuse, aka. The Income School Style Snippet. LOL!
That light dangling from pulley, the black chair, your whole serious demeanor gave me the feeling that I was getting some sage advice from "The Godfather" of The Snippet, at least in this VDO. LOL! Seriously, good one… (*<>*)/.
Kind of addicted to watching jim and ricky together
I did it! Thank you. Got my story to the top of the list for the top Basque restaurants and got the snippet!
If I write an article with multiple answer snippets (under related questions – for example), would I still write additional response posts, for more detailed answers to each of those related questions?
For example: In my research, I have found questions A, B & C. I wrote a detailed response post for A and included B & C as related questions. But now I want to write a detailed answer, in a separate response post for question B with A & C as two of the related questions. Am I doing it wrong???
Can you outrank an already existing featured snippet by providing a better feature snippet ?
I’ve been following this stuff for about 5 months now and have 150 articles , 300kish words, and it’s so hard to not get discouraged. I’m only averaging like 15 visits a day. It seemed like traffic was rising but then dropped back down again.
Happy Snippet Week everyone. Remember: You've got to nip it before you snippet!
I love your outlook, adapt and overcome. Keep up the great content.
I think some snippets are also significantly more clickable than others. For example, a blogpost about divorce is much more clickable (because you want more information) than a topic where you answer why sliced apples taste better than whole apples.
If you jump the line, is there still a waiting period before getting ranked by Google for snippets, just like with standard posts? For example, standard posts take about eight months to fully rank, so do you rank instantly with snippets? Or is there still a waiting period? Also is there still a trust factor required from Google for a site before winning snippets? I would think there would be if they are showing this as their primary answer, giving it their thumbs up, And maybe even more so than just a standard first page search ranking. I am yet to get any snippets for any of my sites even with a decent amount of questions answered, but they are mostly less than six months old posts and site. So I assume there’s still some kind of trust factor or waiting period involved. Thanks!
I'm really upset that income school cannot share a more powerful method how to know the search volume (at least estimates) for the topics and it's all based on the alphabet soup.. that's crazy because it can be very deceptive. You would think that it has a lot of search volume when google is auto-filling the result for you.. however, it's inaccurate
Hi Ricky please do a video on how to do answering target content to win the snippet
What do you recommend for local service businesses? Same practices, or different?
I have won snippets by your techniques a year back. But now everything is gone. And google is also not showing snippets in most of searches
Thanks Ricky…great video on snippets…Greg
Hey Ricky ! Good to see you again.
People re already here pretty fast ..wow
Hey, Ricky! how many affiliate articles should a blog have within the first 30 articles? You haven't mentioned affiliate article quantity in your content mix?
You guys are awesome! Solid content as always!
First Comment! Haha. I never get to be first comment.
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