How to Utilize SERP Features Effectively

Optimizing titles, descriptions, and structured snippets for maximum visibility across Google SERP elements.

Speakers: Ceyda Arıcıoğlu

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Ceyda AricioğluinSEO on Board

17 May 2017

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Hey ADBEO followers, I'm Ceyda Arıcıoğlu. Today I want to talk about making your surf areas more usable. Let's start with the title. It's the first thing users see in search results. So your title needs to say what the page is about. Keep it short. Take Zeo's site as an example: "Zeo Agency - International SEO and Digital Marketing Agency." That's a quick note on what the page covers. Keyword analysis can help when you build your titles. You get to see what users actually search for. Then you can write much better titles. The second big piece is the URL.

The URL gives users a bit more detail. Say you build a URL like "abc.com/computers/2016-models." Now the user knows exactly what's on that page. So when they search, they can scan the URLs. That tells them which page to click. One more thing to watch here. Are you using breadcrumbs and schema markup on your site? If we use breadcrumbs and schema, the search results change. Instead of a raw URL. You see something like "home," "computers," "laptops," and "MacBook." The user sees what comes before and after the page. They get a feel for your site structure. And that boosts your click-through rate.

When we add schema markup to our site, users get way more detail in search. Say you search for "chocolate mud cake." You'll see images of the cake right there. You'll also see user ratings and scores. We also see the number of comments. And we see how long the recipe takes to make. Plus the date it was added, and the meta description. So the user knows exactly what's on the page before clicking. This one has a 30-minute prep time. But another video or recipe might show 15 minutes. So the user picks the page they actually want. They choose the data they want to see.

That was an example for a recipe page. Now take a video search. Again, you see the title up top. You see which video will come up. Next to it, you get the video's URL. Below that, the upload date and who uploaded it. And under that, the meta description for the page. When you do that, users decide more easily. They know which search result to click. The last piece I want to cover is the meta description. It's how we give users more detail.

Here you can include subheadings, not just the page title. That way users see more about the page. So they get to scan meta descriptions for every page. They can ask what's inside this page. They can see what content it actually covers. We recommend keeping meta descriptions under 155 characters. Also, meta description was a ranking factor until 2013. After 2013, it stopped being one. It doesn't affect your rankings anymore. It just boosts your clicks.

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