A little trick to see Featured Snippet's queue

OlafRustle said:

Oh wow that is really helpful, thank you!

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Echo said:

You may or may not have known this, but here's a little tip for you to see the next website for a featured snippet (I called it a trick but it's really an operator). Let's say you search for "how to build links" in Google (obviously).
The first featured snippet is from searchenginejournal.com.

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Now, to find out the second website in the queue simply add -searchenginejournal.com to the search query (or the domain make of the first featured snippet), what you get is the second in the queue - neilpatel.com:

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If you want to get the third one, keep adding (or I should say subtracting) the previous 2 websites ( search engine journal & neil patel) and what you get is the third one:

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Then add that new domain to get the fourth one:

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You get the idea. That's it. The lesson's over. You can now check if your site is in the featured snippet queue for a given query

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Willyfish said:

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice, this is revolutionnary, @Echo never disappoints

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mmubeen8 said:

That's a nice one.

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deepdigger said:

Tips of the day, miss echo , i miss you

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Echo said:

Don't exaggerate, it's a small trick


I think so too


Haha I'm glad you find it useful

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leit said:

Thanks for this, I saw that I was in line for a few featured snippets.

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Echo said:

You may or may not have known this, but here's a little tip for you to see the next website for a featured snippet (I called it a trick but it's really an operator). Let's say you search for "how to build links" in Google (obviously).
The first featured snippet is from searchenginejournal.com.

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Now, to find out the second website in the queue simply add -searchenginejournal.com to the search query (or the domain make of the first featured snippet), what you get is the second in the queue - neilpatel.com:

View attachment 212766

If you want to get the third one, keep adding (or I should say subtracting) the previous 2 websites ( search engine journal & neil patel) and what you get is the third one:

View attachment 212767

Then add that new domain to get the fourth one:

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You get the idea. That's it. The lesson's over. You can now check if your site is in the featured snippet queue for a given query

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Echo said:

I can only show you the door, I can't help you with walking through it you have to figure out how to be the featured one yourself

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Royal96 said:

Thank you!



That's what I thought as well. How can we use this knowledge to get to #1?

I mean, we can't change the text of the website owning the snippet. The only way is probably looking at the first few websites in the queue to find out what content/keywords Google wants to see in the snippet?

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