Position Zero refers to the Featured Snippet placement above organic search results. In the AI era, it represents direct answer placements that bypass traditional rankings.

What is Position Zero?

Position Zero is the featured placement above regular organic results (#1), typically showing a direct answer to the query.

Evolution

  • Traditional: Featured Snippet box
  • AI Era: AI Overviews and chat responses

Winning Position Zero

Format content to directly answer questions, use clear structure, and build authority to capture position zero placements.

When a customer asks AIs without naming a brand, someone else gets recommended. What about the brands you manage?

Every question asked to ChatGPT without the brand in the answer is a competitor recommended in its place: measured across 6,820 real AI answers.