Posted by Cyrus-Shepard
Note: This post was co-authored by Cyrus Shepard and Rida Abidi.
Everyone wants to win Google featured snippets. Right?
At least, it used to be that way. Winning the featured snippet typically meant extra traffic, in part because Google showed your URL twice: once in the featured snippet and again in regular search results. For publishers, this was known as "double-dipping."
All that changed in January when Google announced they would de-duplicate search results to show the featured ...