Featured Snippets

Featured Snippets

Description
Answer boxes appearing at the top of the SERP, pulled directly from website content and often used by voice assistants and AI-powered answers.
The Featured Snippets definition
These are answer boxes at the top of the SERP, pulled directly from website content. They are often used by voice assistants and represent prime real estate in zero-click search.
How Jason Barnard uses Featured Snippets definition
We format client content with clean HTML, structured headings, and concise answers to target snippet opportunities. We also identify high-intent questions and design content specifically to trigger this feature.
Why Featured Snippets matters to digital marketers
This is how you win "position zero". If your brand provides the answer in the snippet, you dominate the query, even when users don't click. It's an AI visibility lever every brand must control.
Posts tagged with Featured Snippets

Google’s Knowledge Algorithms - What You Need to Know

What are Google’s Knowledge Algorithms? Google’s Knowledge Algorithms are responsible for curating information for its Knowledge Graphs (its machine-readable encyclopaedias) and Knowledge Panels (the visible representation of those “encyclopaedias”  in...

AIBrandBrand SERP+32 more
May 5, 2025 Jason Barnard

Weekly Wisdom with Jason Barnard: Knowledge Graph for Brands

Originally Published on SEMrush December 17, 2019 (Jason Barnard) Hi, I am Jason Barnard, and welcome to Weekly Wisdom. This week, I will discuss how to get your brand into Google’s...

AIBrandEntity+19 more
May 5, 2025 Jason Barnard

Should Your Brand Name be Keyword-Focussed?

This is quite a debate! There are pros and cons to both unique brand names and keyword-focussed brand names. Keywords in a brand name can help with ranking, but have...

AIBrandBrand SERP+20 more
May 5, 2025 Jason Barnard

Knowledge Cards in SEO: What You Need To Know

In this article, you will learn more about Knowledge Cards (SERP Feature), their importance for SEO and how they contribute to Brand SERP Optimisation. What are Knowledge Cards in SEO? Simple Definition...

AIBrandBrand Management+20 more
May 5, 2025 Jason Barnard

Featured Snippets in SEO: What You Need To Know

In this article, you will learn more about Featured Snippets, their importance for SEO and how they contribute to Brand SERP Optimisation. What are Featured Snippets in SEO? Simple Definition...

AIBrandBrand Management+16 more
May 5, 2025 Jason Barnard

darwinism & google serps as product: revisiting how search works

originally published on search engine journal august 18, 2021 (jason barnard) new insights on how google search ranking works plus the concept of the serp as a product and how it plays...

AIBingBusiness+27 more
May 5, 2025 Jason Barnard

What is a Featured Snippet?

Sometimes Google provides a short, simple answer to the user’s search query right at the top of the results. These are called Featured Snippets. They are most prevalent for queries...

AIAnswer BoxesBing+19 more
May 5, 2025 Jason Barnard

Advanced techniques to be the Featured Snippet: Position 0 – A guide

Originally Published on SEMrush January 18, 2018 (Jason Barnard) Featured Snippets, Answer Boxes or Position 0… whatever one chooses to call them, articles about nailing that super-precious top spot are all the rage....

AIAmazonAnswer Boxes+21 more
May 5, 2025 Jason Barnard

the future of seo: understanding, credibility, & deliverability

originally published on semrush december 03, 2020 (jason barnard) when someone searches on google (or bing), they express a problem they are seeking to solve or a question they need...

AIAnswer Engine OptimizationAnswer Engines+38 more
May 5, 2025 Jason Barnard

How To create a Google-Friendly FAQ section

Originally Published on SEMrush October 29, 2019 (Jason Barnard) Modified Transcript Hi. I’m Jason Barnard and welcome to Weekly Wisdom. Today I am going to share with you my cheat...

AIAmazonBing+20 more
May 5, 2025 Jason Barnard

How Bingbot Works: Discovering, Crawling, Extracting & Indexing

Originally Published on SearchEngineJournal April 15, 2020 (Jason Barnard) Learn how Bingbot works during the discovery, crawling, extracting and indexing stages from Fabrice Canel, Bing’s Principal Program Manager. Here’s a...

AIBingBrand+23 more
May 5, 2025 Jason Barnard

Why Jason Barnard is one of the world’s leading experts in Online Reputation Management in search and AI

When people talk about online reputation management (ORM), they usually think of traditional PR agencies scrambling to bury negative articles with dozens of blog posts or spinning up throwaway websites...

AIBingBing CoPilot+39 more
Apr 8, 2025 Jason Barnard