Moz: Google Answer Boxes Now Showing Up 60% More Often

Sep 30, 2014 - 8:14 am 4 by
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If you check out the Mozcast features tool, you may notice that the Answers box tracker shows a huge increase in the Google search results.

Mozcast Answers box

This means that according to this tool, Google is now showing answers to queries at the top of the search results, 60% more often than last week.

Cyrus Shepard via Pete Meyers said:

Mozcast Shows Jump in Google Answer Boxes

60% increase last week. http://mozcast.com/features Via +Pete Meyers

More answers means less traffic for publishers.

Have you seen this come up for your vertical more often in the past week or so?

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