Reaction: What SEOs Think About Facts & Answers Showing In Google Search Results
Last week, Google officially rolled out Structured Snippets, the search giants move to show snippets of relevant data directly in its search results.
According to Google, the content being displayed is powered by its Knowledge Graph, as well as other data sources.
As Search Engine Land news editor Barry Schwartz noted in his article, Where Youll Find Google Structured Snippets, the overall concern around Googles increasing activity of pulling website content directly into search results is that webmasters and publishers will see fewer clicks to their websites.
While theres little to be done once Google makes a decision on how it displays search results, we asked five leading SEOs their thoughts on Structured Snippets and Googles continued action to pull website content that doesnt belong to them.
Heres what they had to say:
Are you concerned about Structured Snippets?
Smarty: Actually I havent seen enough examples to be worried yet.
From what Ive seen, that additional info is not at all satisfying. Rather, it shows the user theres more info inside. The structured snippets make the listing stand out and seem to spur some interest.
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Reaction: What SEOs Think About Facts & Answers Showing In Google Search Results