A Featured Snippet is a selected search result displayed in a special block above the organic search results on Google. Its purpose is to provide users with a quick, precise answer to their search query.
Optimizing for Featured Snippets involves answering specific questions in a clear and concise manner, often in the form of paragraph, list, or table snippets. Clean content structuring and the use of HTML tags (e.g., headers) are important to be selected by Google as a relevant snippet.