Should Facebook Be A Source For Featured Snippets?

Feb 4, 2016 - 7:27 am 6 by

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Glenn Gabe shared a screen shot of a featured snippet in Google on Twitter the other day. In short, Facebook is the featured snippet for a query for [first magazine] and it outranks the main web site for the query.

Here is a picture:

Google Featured Snippet Facebook

I am not sure if Facebook is a good source for featured snippets to be honest. I mean, it isn't really a content heavy site.

Glenn called this snippet "crazy" which seems right:

What do you think? Should Facebook show up for featured snippets?

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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