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.

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

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…

Lead gen measurement gets easier for marketers with Google’s introduction of enhanced conversions for leads. See how they work and benefits of using them. The post Google Ads Has A New Way To Measure Offline Leads appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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.

Yandex issued a statement warning that debt may cause material adverse effect on ability to keep operating The post Yandex Warns Debt May Affect Ability To Continue Operating appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Yandex issued a statement warning of two threats to its continued operations, either of which could cause material adverse effect The post Yandex Warns of Threats To Continued Operations appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

See how SEO companies and individuals are supporting colleagues in Ukraine and how you can help, too. The post SEO Community Support For Ukraine & How You Can Help appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Some folks are asking why there isn’t a demo account for Google Search Console like there is for Google Analytics. John Mueller said Daniel Waisberg and the Google Search Console team looked into it but it is “super hard, and requires constant maintenance.” That is why they have not done it yet