Google Does Show Hidden Content In Accordions & Tabs As Featured Snippets

Jun 19, 2019 - 8:22 am 6 by

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The other week we asked if Google shows content within tabs or accordions or other forms of hidden areas in the featured snippets section. We asked this because Google said for the normal search results snippet, Google said they don't show this type of content but for featured snippets they would. The answer is - they do.

Here is John's tweet we references some time ago:

Brodie Clark shortly after shared an example on Twitter:

Glenn Gabe also shared an example of this within tabs:

And Google also does this for related queries, people also ask:

So why featured snippets and not normal snippets?

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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