It's not banned yet, but they just buried it in the search engine so I don't get any leads from Google anymore, re: business, and yes, PMs. the search I optimized my website for was "best ways to buy gold and silver" because I wanted to educate people on the enormous differences of PM futures trading in London/NY and Shanghai/HK, because in reality, they're completely different markets as Western markets only settle for the most part in digits whereas the Eastern markets are required to settle in 100% phys. So after I started posting about 10 years ago on this topic, Google started burying me more and more, to the point of where they might as well have banned me. I used to have Google ads on my blog as well but when I tried to ask delivery for a few thousand dollars that had built up in my account, Google told me my blog was in violation of their "policies", refused to answer exactly what policies my PM blog had violated (besides disseminating truth) and basically stole my ad revenue and never sent me a penny. But, on the bright side, I'm still at the top with Baidu!
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