How to Steal the Featured Snippet for Best-Of Lists

Step-by-step process to get to "position zero"

For certain queries, Google likes to position a resource that they think will help the searcher above the #1 spot in the SERPs. A good example of this is if you search for a weather or recipe query. You can usually see the answer at the top of the page without clicking on a link. This is a featured snippet.

You can think of featured snippets as a “positi…