Research insights: Role of featured snippets in website traffic boost

A study on featured snippets reveals how they can help increase traffic to a website and what encourages and discourages searchers to click on these snippets.

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‘People also ask’ (PAA) feature: Uncovering Google’s hidden gem

SEMrush’s Head of Global Marketing, Olga Andrienko, reveals all the ins and outs of Google’s ‘People also ask’ feature to bring optimization insights for businesses willing to leverage PAA to their advantage.

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Over half of searches on Google yield zero clicks

Zero-click searches on Google result in users remaining on Google.com, Google Images, Google Maps, and YouTube. Data observations from Jumpshot explained.

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Why Wikipedia is still visible across Google’s SERPs in 2018

From queries about products and brands to celebrities and topical events, Wikipedia still features heavily across Google searches – even while our habits as search engine users change (with voice and mobile increasingly having an impact), and while Google itself works to make its results more intuitive and full of rich features. How does Wikipedia manage to maintain this visibility in 2018?

Why Wikipedia is still visible across Google’s SERPs in 2018

From queries about products and brands to celebrities and topical events, Wikipedia still features heavily across Google searches – even while our habits as search engine users change (with voice and mobile increasingly having an impact), and while Google itself works to make its results more intuitive and full of rich features. How does Wikipedia manage to maintain this visibility in 2018?

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