Google’s John Mueller provides a detailed answer as to how long it takes to re-rank a rehabilitated website and why it takes so long The post How Long to Re-rank a Rehabilitated Website appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

If you have a redirect live for a year, you can then remove the redirect and Google will continue to pass the signals from the origin URL to the destination URL. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

With more than 3 billion monthly searches , YouTube is not just a popular social networking platform, but the second largest search engine on the Internet. Five hundred hours of video footage was uploaded to YouTube every single minute in 2019 — and that figure has likely grown since.

Google’s Daniel Waisberg did this outstanding post and illustration, he calls sketches, of how Google would categorize the types or causes of organic traffic drops. The categories include technical issues on the site level, technical issues on the page level, manual actions, algorithmic changes, seasonality and simple reporting bugs.

A survey of 600 small business owners reveals their marketing strategies and plans in the “new normal.” Here are key takeaways from CallRail’s survey. The post 5 Ways to Take Your Small Business Marketing to the Next Level appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google Ads is instituting a new three-strikes and your out policy starting in September 2021. Starting in September, Google will issue a warning and then up to three-strikes for violations of Google’s Enabling Dishonest Behavior, Unapproved Substances and Dangerous Products or Services policies. After the third strike, your account can be suspended.

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

LinkedIn is now offering a free marketing certification program that anyone can take to become an accredited LinkedIn marketing expert. The post LinkedIn Offers Free Marketing Certification Program appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Did you know that returning a “results not found” type of page can result in Google Search considering that page a soft 404 and thus removing it from the search results? We know Google recently changed how it determines some soft 404 pages, but this tidbit is not new to that change.

Learn what counts as a strike, how to get strikes removed, how strikes accumulate over time and the associated penalties.