Can images with a company logo get included on featured snippets?
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I haven't seen this much but wondered what do you think?
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This is also relevant to knowledge-graph boxes and the images which Google compiles into those. Not quite the same thing as the featured snippets but still pretty neat
Typically it's a good one for industrial materials or chemical compounds, e.g:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Poly%28methyl+2-methylpropenoate%29
https://d.pr/i/lQLl1v.png (screenshot)
or
https://www.google.com/search?q=polyethylene
https://d.pr/i/HwWXoc.png (screenshot)
... there are lots of 'material' based knowledge graph entries, which pull images from other sites in, in order to build up a good view of what the material is. Some people actually find the images from their sites which Google injects, and edit them to use a small and unobtrusive watermark (the trick is not to get too greedy, or Google notices and replaces the image from your site with an image from another site!)
Obviously where branded products and compounds / materials converge, it's easier to get some branding showing in the tiny little images:
https://www.google.com/search?q=cbd+oil
https://d.pr/i/jLn5uQ.png (screenshot)
A lot of these actually come through Google's image search results
You don't see so many successful injections in this particular area, these days though
This one is quite a neat example:
https://d.pr/i/582BzT.png (screenshot)
and this one also:
https://d.pr/i/kaibeC.png (screenshot)
... bit of free advertising for BirdsEye and Green Giant there
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We use a copyright mark and our domain name in a light gray font, positioned in the bottom corner of most images. The copyright mark and domain are scaled to be readable after Google shrinks/crops them down to the large featured snippet image size. These large featured snippet images are usually about 200x150, so we do some testing to be sure that the font size used and the placement will be legible and not cropped off.
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