Nine percent are tables, and then just under two percent are video and under two percent are accordion. Then it kind of whittles down from there. Fifty percent of all featured snippet results are paragraphs. Thirty-seven percent are lists. Paragraphs (50%) and lists (37%) are the most common types of featured snippetsĪnother important thing to take away is that we know paragraphs and lists are the most common, and we can see that here. But they're a lot like People Also Ask boxes in that they expand and almost show you additional featured snippets, which is fascinating. Lately, we have started noticing accordions, and we're not sure if they're testing this or if it might be rolled out. The video is interesting because it will just show a specific section of a video that it thinks you need to consume in order to get your answer, which is always interesting. The list can come in numerical format or bullets.īut we also see tables and then video. The most common that we see are the paragraph and the list. We know that Google continues to provide more and more in different spaces, and we also know that there are five general types of featured snippets: There are 5 general types of featured snippets Well, we know that they're on 23% of all search result pages. That's wild. Now what have we recently discovered about featured snippets? 23% of all search result pages include a featured snippet Need-to-know discoveries about featured snippets That's an answer box as opposed to a featured snippet. If you were to search how many days are in February, Google will probably just tell you 28 and there's no citation. This isn't to be confused with an answer box, where it's just an answer and there's no citation. If you were to do a search for 'are crocs edible,' you would see a featured snippet like this:Įssentially, it's giving you information about your search and citing a website. So to be clear, what is a featured snipp e t? Today we're talking about all things featured snippets, so what are they, what sort of research have we discovered about them recently, and what can you take back to the office to target them and effectively basically steal in search results. Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab!

Feature snippets