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My name's Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 175 of The Blog Millionaire.

This episode is part eight of a 10-part series on SEO.

This series is sponsored by H-R-R-Fs.

H-R-S is one of the market leaders

in keyword research tools for bloggers.

I'm a big fan of their tools,

and I use it almost every day.

You can sign up for your own account by going to

A-H-R-E-F-S dot com. I'll also have a link in the episode description. By the time this episode is

over, you will be an expert on featured snippets and be equipped with seven simple

tactics to get your post to rank for hundreds of first page snippets. The core findings of this

episode come from a study by H-Refs, which will be linked to in the show notes. So let's go

ahead and get started. A featured snippet is a brief

answer to a user's search query, which is displayed on top of the Google search results. It is

extracted from one of the top ranking pages for that search query and includes the pages title

and the URL. If your page is ranking anywhere in the top 10 Google search results,

it has a chance to get the featured snippet.

The featured snippet is also known as number zero on Google rankings,

which means it comes before the first result. And the best part is that the amount of

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