At the beginning of March 2021, the search giant Google discarded heaps of featured snippets, and then, later on, they came back. In a recent Google Search Central office-hours hangout, Google’s John Mueller explained the reasons featured snippets visibility changes. ...

Featured snippets are what a user sees first when the SERP for their search query loads. They obtain the “position zero” on the search results, appearing before the organic ones, dominating the entire page, and instantly grabbing the users’ attention. ...