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Google has made some updates to the meta robots directive help documentation, specifically by adding more examples for the max-snippet and specifying for each tag what Google’s default behavior is when the tags are omitted. I highly recommend you re-review these docs starting from the valid indexing & serving directives until the end of that section

So while Google made some additions to the meta robots directives section of the robots help documents, Google’s Gary Illyes and Lizzi Harvey said more is to come. They said if you have feedback and want anything added or explained in the docs, to let them know by submitting feedback now.

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YouTube is now letting creators see how many people subscribe to their channel with a new counter that updates in real-time. The post YouTube Adds Real-Time Subscriber Counts in Channel Dashboards via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .