Google’s John Mueller said again that the best method to block Google from crawling and then indexing your staging site is to block GoogleBot and other humans with authentication.

Yelp’s latest local economic impact report reveals that searches for diverse businesses grew significantly over the past year. The post Yelp Reports Major Growth in Searches For Diverse Businesses appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

Google’s John Mueller advises that changing publishing dates on web pages will not improve search rankings if no significant changes were made to the content. The post Google’s John Mueller: Changing Dates on Pages Won’t Improve Rankings appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google announced that you can now enable continuous audience sharing from your sub-accounts, this is in addition to continuous audience sharing in your manager accounts that was enabled a year ago.

After many months of Google teasing us that Google Search Console will gain support for regular expressions, even sharing a help document around it, Google has finally launched regex support in the performance report filters.

Google Search Console gets two new features designed to improve the efficiency of analyzing data in reports. The post Google Launches 2 Improvements to Search Console Reports appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Facebook calls recent data leak ‘old news.’ Discover why the information is still valuable to cybercriminals and whether your data was stolen.

Link building has come a long way from its pre-Google days.