SERP features are increasingly overtaking the search landscape, stealing traffic from content providers. The featured snippet, however, is one that we still have a level of control over. Emily's SearchLeeds talk will show you exactly how much traffic you can expect to gain by acquiring featured snippets with data from case studies to justify their value, and also share tips on how to win them.
38. Featured snippets increase no-click searches
29.8%
without clicks
Searches with
featured snippet
25.8%
without clicks
Searches without
featured snippets
83. Monday morning actions
1. Find keywords you rank for with featured snippets
○ Avoid keywords with commercial intent
84. Monday morning actions
1. Find keywords you rank for with featured snippets
○ Avoid keywords with commercial intent
○ Flag where you rank higher than the current owner
85. Monday morning actions
1. Find keywords you rank for with featured snippets
2. Look for low hanging fruit
86. Monday morning actions
1. Find keywords you rank for with featured snippets
2. Look for low hanging fruit
○ Steal headings (especially when you rank higher)
87. Monday morning actions
1. Find keywords you rank for with featured snippets
2. Look for low hanging fruit
○ Steal headings (especially when you rank higher)
○ Join two points together with “However”
88. Monday morning actions
1. Find keywords you rank for with featured snippets
2. Look for low hanging fruit
3. Add on-page content for well performing pages
89. Monday morning actions
1. Find keywords you rank for with featured snippets
2. Look for low hanging fruit
3. Add on-page content for well performing pages
4. Re-format your content to match that of current owner
90. Monday morning actions
1. Find keywords you rank for with featured snippets
2. Look for low hanging fruit
3. Add on-page content for well performing pages
4. Re-format your content to match that of current owner
○ Turn paragraphs into lists, lists into tables, etc.
91. Bonus Tool: Natural Language Processing
Question And Answer Demo Using BERT NLP
● Verify Google can extract answers from your content
● https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/11/open-sourcing-bert-
state-of-art-pre.html