Google’s John Mueller recently advised that it could take up to a year for the search engine to figure out where to rank new sites. The post Google: Rankings for New Sites Could Fluctuate For Up to a Year via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

“Integrated marketing” is an ideal with clear appeal, but one that is often difficult to actualize in practice. Developing a truly integrated strategy — in which marketing functions in lockstep with sales, product, and other departments — is immensely challenging, especially within large and complex organizations. It’s not necessarily for a lack of trying, or a lack of good intentions from all involved

80% of survey respondents said they were also buying (local) ads on Google.

Last week we covered that Google said again, nofollow links in guest blog posts, even if they are not paid guest blog posts. This is not new, Google said this many times over the years.

Leverage your Google My Business listing and Google reviews to keep your business in touch with customers amid the pandemic. The post How to Boost Business With Google Reviews in the Age of COVID-19 via @LetUsRespond appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Over the past several weeks and months it seems more and more site owners and SEOs are complaining about Google not indexing their web sites as it once did. I asked Google’s John Mueller if anything was new here and he said no, Google has not changed how it indexes sites in terms of quality or the depth; but what may have changed is how Google Search Console reports it more accurately.

Google’s John Mueller confirmed, despite the nofollow attribute slapped all over links on YouTube pages, that Google does not use links on YouTube for search.

Posted by cheryldraper This conference season feels a bit different, doesn’t it?

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google is updating the Search Console Performance Report with data related to the performance of recipe rich results. The post Google Search Console Adds New Data for Recipe Structured Data via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .