Glossary / Featured snippet
What is Featured snippet?
A featured snippet is the boxed answer Google shows at the top of some results, pulled straight from a page it already ranks.
Ask how long to proof sourdough and you often get a paragraph, list, or small table in a box above the normal results. That box is a featured snippet, and the words inside it were lifted from someone's page.
You win them by answering the question plainly and early. Put the question in a heading, then answer it in the next two or three sentences before you elaborate. Lists and small tables get picked often because they are easy to lift.
It is not free traffic in every case. Some readers get what they need from the box and never click. Snippets pay off most when the answer invites a next step, like a recipe, a calculator, or a buying decision.
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