{"id":552,"date":"2015-10-25T13:09:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T13:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/?p=552"},"modified":"2015-10-25T13:09:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T13:09:55","slug":"googles-rich-answers-threat-or-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/googles-rich-answers-threat-or-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Rich Answers Threat Or Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If ranking for top 10 positions isn&#8217;t hard enough Google still trips us up<\/p>\n<p>Getting the space above the fold in organic search is getting harder and harder all the time<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just important to get the in the top 3 instead of just the top 10 anymore to get those Click Thru&#8217;s from visitors<\/p>\n<p>Google has increasingly stolen the above the fold real estate time after time<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.link-assistant.com\/news\/7-seo-trends-for-2016.html?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=broadcast&amp;utm_campaign=2016-seo-21102015#tip-01\">rich answers<\/a> is another item to content with<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to a study by Stone Temple Consulting, Google returns rich answers to 35% of search queries these days. This is a 38% increase over the past 6 months, and we are clearly in for some further growth. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rich-answers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-553\" src=\"http:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rich-answers.png\" alt=\"rich answers\" width=\"694\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rich-answers.png 694w, https:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/rich-answers-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;According to Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting, for 75% of rich answers Google uses external data and includes a link to its source. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This spells either doom or opportunity, the analogy of the half filled glass<\/p>\n<p>The best thing is try to get featured in Google&#8217;s Rich Answers<\/p>\n<p>This will take any non authority site to an increase of 2x&#8217;s more clicks than non rich answer organic search lists by what the study finds<\/p>\n<p>Again you will not find any of this in any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slicktimesavers.com\">SEO Keyword Tool<\/a> out there today including any SEO course promoting how to get to the top 10 of Google<\/p>\n<p>If any shiny new object your about to buy relies heavily on the Google Keyword Tool or even mentions search counts<\/p>\n<p>Run the other way your being fed old information the will surely have you fail and frustrated in your efforts to the top of Google Search<\/p>\n<p>Till Next Time<\/p>\n<p>Ed Chiasson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If ranking for top 10 positions isn&#8217;t hard enough Google still trips us up Getting the space above the fold in organic search is getting harder and harder all the time It&#8217;s not just important to get the in the top 3 instead of just the top 10 anymore to<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/googles-rich-answers-threat-or-opportunity\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-","post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-slick-time-savers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slicktimesavers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}