how are people ranking serp features in 2026?

For featured snippets: put the question as a subheading and answer it in 40-60 words right under it, plain and direct, then expand below. Lists and tables get picked up for "how to" and comparison queries. You usually have to be ranking on page one already for it to work. There's no special markup for AI overviews, it's the same thing really, clear direct answers.