Monitoring featured snippets

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1. Starting point: Getting the seed URL
The first big problem with getting a random sample of the web is that there is no truly random starting point . Think about it. Unlike a bag of marbles where you can just reach in and blindly grab one at random, if you don’t know the URL in advance, you can’t pick one at random. You could try to create a random URL by just shuffling and bangladesh number data letters one after the other, but we know that language doesn’t work that way, so the URLs will be very different from what we find on the web. Unfortunately, everyone is forced to start with some pseudo-random process.



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Video transcription
Hey, Moz fans. Welcome to the second edition of Whiteboard Friday. Today we’re going into part three of our three-part series all about featured snippets. So part one was about how to discover opportunities for these featured snippets , part two was about how to target them , and this final part is about how to accurately monitor and measure the effectiveness of your targeting.

So we'll go right in. So there are a few different steps and things you can do to get through this.

I. Manually resubmit the URL and check the SERP incognito.
The first is to simply manually resubmit a URL once you've tweaked the