You have
heard about rich snippets. SEO expert seems to think everyone know exactly what
are rich snippets. But, for SEO beginners, a rich snippets is really vague
term. What they are? Time to explain and why they are important for SEO and how
you can set them for your website.
What is rich snippets?
Snippet is
a result that Google shows to the user in the search result. An e.g., I was
searching for a good homemade cake and Google it. Google showed ma a results
with normal snippets and rich snippets – or rich results as they are now
called a normal snippet basically looks like this:
Google
shows the title in blue color, the URL in green color and a description of the
page what is all about. That’s what we called snippet, the thing Yoast SEO
help you to optimize with snippet preview.
A rich
snippet shows some additional info between the URL and the description. A rich
snippet looks like this
In the
snippet, a picture of the cake is added, you can see the rating of the dish,
the time it take to ready this type of cake and the number of ingredients it
contain. A rich snippet contain more than details then the normal snippets
does. That’s why we called it rich snippet.
Useful information about rich snippets
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