Content and entities
Answer-first content
Answer-first content states the answer in the opening lines, before context or background. It suits AI answers because engines lift self-contained passages, and a passage that answers the question outright is the easiest to take.
In more detail
In practice it means a heading that asks the question, two or three sentences that answer it completely, and the detail afterwards for readers who want it.
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Related terms
Featured snippet
A featured snippet is a short extract Google promotes above its results to answer a query directly. It was the earliest widely-used answer format and rewards the same writing that AI answers do: a direct answer, stated early.
Reranking
Reranking is a second pass that reorders retrieved documents by how well they actually answer the question, before the model writes from them. It decides which of the candidates becomes a citation.
FAQ schema
FAQ schema is structured data marking a page's questions and answers as an FAQPage. It makes question-and-answer content explicit, which suits both rich results and AI systems looking for a direct answer to lift.
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