Search Result Optimisation: Insights on Featured Snippets
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In this week's digital news roundup, we delve into Google Ads' new AI Assistant, Twitter's recent changes, and Google's stance on AI-generated content. We also explore YouTube's latest strategies against AdBlockers and its new linking features. Lastly, we touch upon some valuable insights from MozCon on Local SEO. Curious to know more about these developments and how they can impact your digital marketing strategy? Let's dive in and dissect what these updates could mean for your business. :)
This week turned into a bit of an AI-Google fest, blathering on about the challenges of controlling AI access to your hard-crafted content, vs Google wanting full access. There are also changes to FAQ & How To's on the SERP, presumably due to spam, some sage advice re content pruning, and a good guide to AI-driven PMax Google Ads campaigns. Read it and educate yourself ;-)
What’s this about? Well, I’m shocked, shocked I say. After making us all think Featured Snippets had been knocked on the head and replaced by Knowledge Panels, Google only go and add more features into the Featured Snippets! Where will it all end? Read more [...]
What are the latest SEO News & Updates for 8th December 2017? I’m really fascinated by this week’s SEO News and Updates for 8th December 2018. I’m a touch unsurprised by revelations that journalists accept money for mentions of companies, brands or products in their [...]
What’s this about? Oh noes! Poor Featured Snippets have been giving way to really bland Knowledge Panels. Re-arranging the deck chairs on a well-know boat springs to mind. If you rely on crowd-sourced content, you are always going to find a fair degree of rubbish [...]
Google's Featured Snippets are disappearing from SERPs. They're not gone wholly, but Google seems to be rolling back plenty and replacing with Knowledge Panels. Perhaps Google has realised that webmasters have started to game these and the quality has suffered somewhat - a lot of those I see are poor. Read more now in this extract from TWIS SEO News & Updates 24th November 2017. #SEO #SEONews #FeaturedSnippets #KnowledgePanels #SERP
Nominally, it was a quiet week in terms of SEO news. That is apart from Net Neutrality, YouTube ad horrors and John Mueller trolling link-builders. Oh, and some updates on link text, Featured Snippets and some amusing SEO Bits & Pieces. Not such a quiet week then. Read the very latest SEO News and Updates for 24th November 2017. They will fill your day with lightness and wonder. #SEO #SEONews #NetNeutrality #YouTube #LinkBuilding #FeaturedSnippets #InternalLinks
Hooray! Google now links to AMP URLs from Featured Snippets. Most of the time. If there's an AMP URL available. And it's on mobile. AMP isn't a criteria for picking a Featured Snippet however. Read what to do about it in this extract from TWIS SEO News & Updates 08 Sept 2017. #SEO #SEONews #FeaturedSnippets #AMP #PageSpeed #GoogleAnalytics
Wow, exciting stories for this week's SEO News & Updates. Google listed critical factors for Mobile First. I was pleased that I could edit Google My Business listings directly in search. Google is using AMP URLs for Featured Snippets. The Google Search Console Beta program expanded - were you included? Google Local partially rolled back its Possum Update. The Bits and Pieces delivered on social media and links. Good reading if you ask me! #SEO #SEONews #MobileFirst #GoogleMyBusiness #FeaturedSnippets #GoogleSearchConsole #GoogleLocal
Read the mind-bendingly marvellous SEO Bits & Pieces. There really are some interesting snippets in there. If you would like to discuss anything about these snippets of Google goodness, please feel free to contact me. #SEO #FeaturedSnippets #AMP
In this free thought-piece, you can read actionable insights into the reasons for Google not surfacing Featured Snippet Data in Google Search Console. You can find this data in other ways, and whether you should be targeting Featured Snippets in the first place, is still up for debate. Click the link to read. #SEO #FeaturedSnippets #GoogleSearchConsole #ContentStrategy
Read this week's free guide to the latest SEO updates for w/e 16 June 2017: - Google admits Mobile First Index delayed until 2018; - The Periodic Table of SEO Success for 2017 released ; - Google think most CMSs produce XML Sitemaps; - Featured Snippets data not coming to a Search Console near you; - More commentary on Guest Post Link Spam; - As well as some exceptionally riveting Bits & Pieces. It really is a very good read. #SEO #MobileFirst #XMLSitemaps #LinkBuilding #FeaturedSnippets
Read actionable insights about how Google has been playing with Featured Snippets and whether the Featured Snippet site also benefits from its "normal" listing in the Organic SERPs. #SEO #OrganicSERPs #FeaturedSnippets
Read the TWIS SEO Update for w/e 19th May 2017 - jam-packed with actionable insights: Google Lens Visual Search announced; Google Assistant Coming to iPhone; Rumours of a Google Update; Google Analytics AMP update; Google Testing Dropping Secondary Listings for Featured Snippets; And some exceptionally interesting Bits and Pieces. #SEO #GrowthHacking #GoogleLens #GoogleAssistant #GoogleAnalytics #AMP #GoogleUpdates #FeaturedSnippets #GoogleIO