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:
I don't know for sure, but my understanding is that it would.
— 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) May 17, 2019
Brodie Clark shortly after shared an example on Twitter:
Highly doubt this result will maintain itself long-term, but this is a decent example of G showing a Featured Snippet from hidden content. Not saying hidden content is an ideal scenario (G is probably working hard to surface it), but good to know it's possible. pic.twitter.com/JqfMdl9GGo
— Brodie Clark (@brodieseo) May 29, 2019
Glenn Gabe also shared an example of this within tabs:
Here's an example I recently surfaced where the featured snippet is pulling content that's hidden on-load in a tab. I've seen other examples recently too. So yes, it seems Google can use hidden content in a featured snippet. This is similar to what @brodieseo saw. pic.twitter.com/wzVUDOrSUN
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) June 19, 2019
And Google also does this for related queries, people also ask:
Same goes for other related queries to the topic. Again, not saying this will always retain itself, but seems to be some consistency anyway. pic.twitter.com/djlN8R9HlX
— Brodie Clark (@brodieseo) May 29, 2019
So why featured snippets and not normal snippets?
Forum discussion at Twitter.
