Site wide decrease in featured snippets
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Hi,
As of April we have seen a huge drop in the number of featured snippets and I'm unsure why.
- No major changes have been made to the site.
- We did submit to to Google news at a similar times (failed unfortunately)
I have plotted our featured snippets and competitors featured snippets form data from Semrush and most our competitors have seen a fall in number of featured snippets. There has also been a large fall for some categories specifically. But overall we have seen the largest drop out of everyone. (See attached Graph)
Does anyone have any clues as to why Google would remove multiple featured snippets from one website in particular.
Thanks.
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Looks like they have come back. It's like Google flipped a switch. We are now back on track with more featured snippets than before.
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I agree, we will just have to wait and see what happens I think.
If anyone else has any experience with this, I'd love to hear their thoughts!
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Thanks for the response, but I'm not convinced it's backlinks as I haven't found anything significant for the brands with an increase & we have had an increase in backlinks ourselves.
And, the overall increasing brands have seen a decrease in the categories where we have too.
Also, a brand bigger than us (I didn't put them on the graph cause it makes it difficult to read) has also seen a large drop. Still not a big as ours on percentage, but quite significant. Also, they cover some categories that we do not. So it can be quite difficult to compare.
It's like Google's taken away Featured Snippets for a few categories and we've copped the most of it.
Has anyone else experienced this and has any feedback?
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