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PRACTICAL INSIGHTS
INTO WINNING
FEATURED SNIPPETS
Izzi Smith
SIXT IS ON FIRE
Agenda
Featured Snippets,
aka Position 0,
aka One Box
No longer a collection of blue links
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Avoid Google Knowledge Cards
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These appear for questions that require a factual, quick answer, and they retrieve
entity data from Google’s partner sources – just like the Knowledge Graph does.
Avoid Google Knowledge Cards
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No referral URL
Knowledge Card answers aim to keep the user on the SERPs, and normally don’t
provide an attributed URL below, so you should avoid these keywords!
Featured Snippets
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Featured Snippet Flavours
• Paragraph – 60%
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Source: STAT
Featured Snippet Flavours
• List – 29%
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Source: STAT
Featured Snippet Flavours
• Table – 11%
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Source: STAT
Why Target Featured
Snippets?
Increase the quantity of your traffic
Example: Featured Snippet for „automarken“ (EN: „car brands“)
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Increase the quantity of your traffic
• Example URL: https://www.sixt.de/marken/
• #1 most visited landing page (after the homepage)
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Increase the quality of your traffic
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Example: Featured Snippet for „mietwagen mit winterreifen“ (EN: „car rental with winter tyres)
Brand Awareness
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Voice Search
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They‘re cool af
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The Recipe to
Winning Featured
Snippets
Practical Insights into Winning Featured Snippets - CAMPIXX 2018
Research your Potential
What questions are you currently ranking for?
• Google Analytics -> Search Console -> Queries
• Regular expression of Question keywords
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Research your Potential
What questions can you answer?
AnswerThePublic.com
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Research your Potential
What questions can you answer?
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Additional research tips
• Look into your competitors, Wikihow and Wikipedia
• Think Longtail!
• It‘s easier to steal a featured snippet than to generate a
new one
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Practical Insights into Winning Featured Snippets - CAMPIXX 2018
Answer the question
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Perfect answer content should...
1. Be written for humans!
2. Be factual
3. Solve the user‘s problem
4. Bonus points: Engaging elements (calculators, tables, bite-size facts)
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Provide useful additional content
• Prove that you are a trusted source of knowledge on the topic as a
whole
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Question
KW
Answer
Heading and
Intro!
Awesome diagram!
Fantastic additional
content!
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Choose the most relevant Format
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Choose the most relevant Format
Source: Moz
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Choose the most relevant Format
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Choose the most relevant Format
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Practical Insights into Winning Featured Snippets - CAMPIXX 2018
Fetch as Google
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Site Search
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Schema can help!
Answer
Data
Structured
Layout
Featured
Snippet+ =Satisfies
User
Intent
+ Understood by
Machines+
Schema Mark-up!
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Practical Insights into Winning Featured Snippets - CAMPIXX 2018
Don‘t harm your CTR
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Pad out your answers
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Lists: Google displays a maximum of
8 items
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Image Optimization
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Image Optimization
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Always ensure your images are:
• Relevant and useful
• The correct size
• Compressed. E.g. with tinypng
Practical Insights into Winning Featured Snippets - CAMPIXX 2018
Practical Insights into Winning Featured Snippets - CAMPIXX 2018
Car Model Landing Pages
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Quick and easy JSON-LD Generator
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Car Model Landing Pages
Car Model
Data
Table
Structure
Featured
Snippet+ =Kick ass
Content+ Car Schema
Mark-up+
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Car Model Featured Snippets
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Car Model „Rich“ Snippets
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Why have one when you can have both?
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The Results: Car Model Snippets
Pages Generating a
Snippet:
18%
Conversions:
+41%
Sessions: +46%
Conversions:
+48%
Sessions: +183%
Pages Generating a
Snippet:
28%
YoY Data from GA Organic Izzi Smith
Volatility with Car Model Featured Snippets
Source: SERPlorer data of Car Pages
Generating a Snippet
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Practical Insights into Winning Featured Snippets - CAMPIXX 2018
Restructuring content for Snippets
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Restructuring content for Snippets
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Informational Featured Snippets
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Practical Insights into Winning Featured Snippets - CAMPIXX 2018
Create landing pages for Snippets
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Create own landing pages for Snippets
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Create own landing pages for Snippets
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Question and Answer Schema Mark up
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Practical Insights into Winning Featured Snippets - CAMPIXX 2018
AWR Cloud
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Moz SERP Features
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SISTRIX
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Practical Insights into Winning Featured Snippets - CAMPIXX 2018
Key Takeaways
• Do your question keyword research and think Longtail
• Provide informative answers for actual users
• Format your answers in the most-likely-to-be-displayed structure
• Provide additional, related content that brings value and relevancy
• Test Structured Data & Schema.org influences
• Bulk out your snippets to ensure they are clicked
• Keep testing and trying
• Don‘t give up ;)
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kautionsfrei.de
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kautionsfrei.de
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• Cut down! I found 45 questions!
• Unify your landing page strategy
• What page do you want to rank for what keyword?
• Simplify page structure
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personensuche.de
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personensuche.de
• How are your user engagement metrics?
• Get rid of huge ad space
• H2 as question
• Optimize for mobile
• Potentially re-write for a beautiful URL (with KW)
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/izzi-
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