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How to Optimize Your Site for Google’s Featured Snippets (Quick Answer Boxes)

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Optimize Your Site for Google’s Featured Snippets (Quick Answer Boxes) written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. On one hand, featured snippets present a challenge to online publishers by sometimes removing the need to ever click through to their sites.

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This day in search marketing history: February 25

Search Engine Land

SEOs upset over Google dropping attribution in featured snippets In 2019, SEOs were not happy about a Google featured snippet format that didn’t immediately show the source of the content. Read all about it in Controversy over Google Featured Snippets stealing publisher traffic reignites.

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Get Featured in Google Answer Box: Tips for Maximum Visibility

Rock Content

However, as all marketers know, getting the coveted first position is challenging, especially when competing against some of the biggest brands in the world. Fortunately, there’s another option: the Google Answer Box (GAB). Why Target the Google Answer Box? For example, asking, “How long to flip a house?”

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Bing adds Bing Chat answers to search results

Search Engine Land

Microsoft Bing has added Bing Chat answers in the Bing Search results in place of some of the answer boxes. When you search in any browser in Bing and you see this Bing Chat box come up, you can see the first answer above. But yes, Microsoft is showing you a snippet of the power of Bing Chat and hoping you try to get into the beta.

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SEO through the Google SGE lens: What’s changing?

Search Engine Land

So what do we know, and what should we expect – and how should we prepare? How to build an insurance policy that keeps your brand in the mix. Now it’s less in your face, which I suspect they had planned the whole time – test maximalist to force people to notice and collect data on how they behave in the new environment.

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This day in search marketing history: January 18

Search Engine Land

In 2012, when you visited Google, you saw this: That’s how Google voiced its opposition to two bills being discussed in Congress – the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA ). 2019: Amazon’s advertising offerings were getting more sophisticated, presenting marketers with new opportunities and complexities.

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How to Optimize Web Copy: 3 Steps for Semantic SEO (plus a helpful AI prompt)

Orbit Media Studios

It’s connecting visitors to answers on pages that contain the meaning they’re looking for, not just pages that match the words they typed into that little box. What words appear in the featured snippet and the snippets of the other high-ranking pages? Those were dark days online. What are the bolded phrases?

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