{"id":2876,"date":"2022-01-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/google-paa-vs-featured-snippets-data-379290\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T11:00:00","slug":"google-paa-vs-featured-snippets-data-379290","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/google-paa-vs-featured-snippets-data-379290\/","title":{"rendered":"Google SERP analysis: PAA appears 10x more than featured snippets"},"content":{"rendered":"
Is optimizing for featured snippets near the top of your SEO to-do list? If so, you may want to re-consider how big of a priority it is for you.<\/p>\n
That’s because the number of featured snippets shown in Google SERPs continues to decrease, according to data published by Kevin Indig, Shopify’s director of SEO. The data was provided to Indig by SEO software provider Rank Ranger.<\/p>\n
As search is a zero sum game, what’s going up while featured snippets decline? That would be People Also Asked (PAA) boxes.<\/p>\n
What the data reveals.<\/strong> Indig analyzed three years of data (June 2018 to June 2021), looking at a sample of more than 100,000 keywords, and the percentage of SERP features displayed for those keywords, on both desktop and mobile search.<\/p>\n Two interesting findings:<\/p>\n\n