{"id":133107,"date":"2019-07-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.searchenginewatch.com\/?p=133107"},"modified":"2020-02-21T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T12:56:36","slug":"how-to-get-featured-snippets-no-link-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/2019\/07\/12\/how-to-get-featured-snippets-no-link-building\/","title":{"rendered":"How to grab featured snippet rankings with zero link building effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featured snippets<\/a>, also known as “position zero” placements on Google, have been receiving their fair share of glory and blame lately.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

While some big corporations like Forbes<\/em><\/a> went ahead and questioned if Google is stealing traffic with the featured snippet, content<\/a> creators like me have found it easy to get more traffic, thanks to being able to rank small sites on a featured snippet.<\/p>\n

This post will give you a brief idea on how you can rank a page on Google\u2019s featured snippet — without building any links to that page.<\/p>\n

Understand the types<\/h2>\n

There are three major types of featured snippets that you can go for. As most of our clients are bloggers, we tend to go for either the paragraph snippets or the list snippets. Table snippet is another popular one that you can target.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a quick graph from Ahrefs about the snippet type and their percentages.<\/p>\n

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Targeting the right keywords<\/h2>\n

Once you finalize the type of snippet that you would want to go for, it is time to dig deep into your keyword research<\/a> to find keywords<\/a> that suit your blog and match the requirements for the type of snippet that you are going after.<\/p>\n

If you are going for a paragraph snippet, you will have to find keywords<\/a> that are primarily related to these types:<\/p>\n