Featured Snippets

  • Resolved dav74

    (@dav74)


    4 years, 6 months ago

    Hello,

    I would like to offer a featured snippet to Google (for a specific page) to see whether it uses it in search results to help boost our organic traffic (which has really dropped since the last major Google update in July).

    Can you tell me whether your plugin supports this and if so how we set this up?

    Thanks again

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  • Thread Starter dav74

    (@dav74)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    Or can I simmply list some bullet points in the “Social Secition” in the on page SEO settings under Open Graph Description?

    Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    Hello!

    I’m not sure what you mean by “Featured Snippet.” Could you please link to the documentation of Google that shows an image of an example result, which helps me better understand what you’re trying to achieve? Thank you!

    To get ahead of things: TSF should be compatible with most structured data plugins. https://tsf.fyi/kb/structureddata

    Social settings do not affect search engines. But, you cannot enter HTML or lists there — they get compressed to a single line by TSF (and social sites).

    Thread Starter dav74

    (@dav74)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    Hi @cybr

    Thanks for the reply. What I mean is when you ask a question in Google you often get a result from a website with bullet points. I thought this was a Featured Snippet. Here I took a screenshot of an example: https://ibb.co/HxMPb6W

    I thought in order for Google to consider your site for that you need to add something to the Open Graph description of the page (do correct me if I#M wrong 🙂

    Is there any way I can add a summary of a page (or question in this case) in bullet points to the Open Graph Description and would that work?

    Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks for explaining!

    Google automates this feature, and you cannot influence it other than opting out (which is counterproductive and something you cannot do via TSF). See https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearance/featured-snippets.

    How can I mark my page as a featured snippet?
    You can’t. Google systems determine whether a page would make a good featured snippet for a user’s search request, and if so, elevates it.

    To learn how Google obtains the information, please see https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/9351707. It doesn’t use Open Graph.

    More clear and concise (Scroll To Text is a recent browser feature):

    You can add a page summary to the page itself (for everyone to see, including search engines), which Google might use as a featured snippet. But, of course, there is no guarantee.

    Thread Starter dav74

    (@dav74)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    Many thanks @cybr

    Yes I should have presumed the Google automates all this and you can do little to sway this other than have a good nformative page. Thanks again for your insights 🙂

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