Daily Search Forum Recap: March 4, 2022

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

The Google page experience update for desktop is now fully live but it didn't seem to impact rankings...

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Google Temporarily Pauses All Ads In Serving In Russia

Last night Google announced it is temporarily pausing Google ads from serving to users located in Russia. This is due to the "ongoing war in Ukraine" according to the Google statement.

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Google: Googlebot May One Day Crawl From Outside The U.S.

The other day I reported again how blocking US based users would require you to also block Googlebot, Google's crawler. And that would be devastating to a site's search rankings in Google. But John Mueller of Google said it is not out of the question that Google one day may decide to crawl from outside of the US.

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Google: We Mechanisms To Verify Merchant Experience Scorecard Metrics

A couple of weeks ago we reported that Google has a new set of ranking factors specific to the Google Shopping tab named the Shopping experience scorecard program. The concern was that merchants are asked to feed these metrics to Google and that the merchants will only feed positive scores, potentially manipulating the metrics and thus their rankings.

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Anton Shulke In Kyiv Making Bandages Out Of Bedding

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