While this is arguably better, easier and faster

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While this is arguably better, easier and faster for searchers to find the answers they’re looking for, it’s bad for bloggers (like you) that want to control the experience for their readers.

However, it’s not all bad news. After all, you’re here to learn how to write a blog post for the way people are consuming content today.

The advent of featured snippets and knowledge boxes means that chile telemarketing data are also a ton of new opportunities to get creative and break into these high-visibility featured snippets—thus outranking your competitors and giving yourself the best shot and bringing the most engaged readers to your blog.

They’re also a fantastic way to capture the growing voice search traffic boom that’s being ushered in by Alexa, Siri, Google Home and Cortana.

If you noticed near the top of this guide about how to write a blog post, I’ve included a very clear, hyperlinked menu that’s optimized to encourage featured snippet placements.

How to Optimize Your Blog Posts for Featured Snippet Placements
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How to optimize your blog posts for featured snippet placements (with a hyperlinked menu).
How to Optimize Your Blog Posts for Featured Snippet Placement

Remember that successfully landing a featured snippet for your blog post will require more than just implementing these formatting best practices—as Google takes into account a myriad of other factors like the number of high quality backlinks the article has, your page load speed, reputation of your websites (and more).

Still, you should always aim for landing a featured snippet as the benefits can be immense. Here’s how to get a featured snippet:

Figure out exactly what people are asking (by observing suggested results on sites like Google and Quora)
Make those questions the headers in your blog post (utilizing proper H1’s, H2’s and H3’s)
Create a structured, hyperlinked menu near the top of your blog post using the same proper text formatting
Hyperlink each menu item to it’s corresponding sub-header below (to make the post easily navigable)
Answer the most common questions related to this search term succinctly (using question and answer format)