<b>The list-snippet heist nobody talks about</b>

<b>The list-snippet heist nobody talks about</b>
07:40 UTC — Heard this from two practitioners chasing the same head terms: if a query owns a <i>paragraph</i> snippet but the intent is clearly steps, you can flip the box to a numbered list and bump whoever's in there now.

The move:
— Mirror the query phrasing in an H2, then drop an ordered list of 4–8 steps directly under it, no intro sentence between.
— Keep each step under ~12 words so Google can lift the whole block clean.

Why it matters: paragraph boxes can only quote one source. Once the SERP decides the answer is a list, the incumbent's wall of text stops qualifying — and the URL flips to whoever structured it as steps first.

Reliability: well-worn, repeatable. Watching this.