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Google Advises Against Using Nofollow Links When Migrating Sites

Google’s team of webmaster trends analysts discuss the intricacies of nofollow links in the first episode of the company’s new podcast. The podcast brings together Google’s John Mueller, Martin Splitt, and Gary Illyes to discuss topics related to search and share information about upcoming projects. In episode one of ‘Search Off the Record,’ Google reveals […]

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The State of Nofollow, UGC, & Sponsored Link Attributes in 2020 [New Research]

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In 2019, after 15 years, Google changed how nofollow works. It’s now a hint for both crawling and ranking. They also added two brand new attributes, rel=“ugc“and rel=“sponsored”. According to the announcement, nofollow is meant for links where you don’t want to imply any kind of endorsement or pass ranking credit to another page. Sponsored works

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Google’s new treatment of nofollow links has arrived

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As of Sunday, Mar. 1, Google is treating the nofollow link attribute as a hint, rather than a directive, for crawling and indexing purposes. Google is already treating all link attributes (sponsored, UGC and nofollow) as hints for ranking purposes and has been doing so since it made the original announcement in September. First introduced

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Google Downgrades Nofollow Directive. Now What?

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On March 1, Google will no longer consider nofollow attributes as commands. Instead, they will be hints, much like canonical tags. Until now, nofollow attributes have been a protective barrier between your site’s authority and the potentially questionable sites it links to. It’s the equivalent of telling Google, “Hey, I don’t know this guy; I

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Video: Brian Dean on growing YouTube subscribers and the nofollow link change

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Brian Dean has a pretty impressive YouTube channel with almost 275,000 subscribers. He asked to come to my New York office and sit down and chat. So I obviously asked him how he got so many subscribers. In short, he said it is about making some really good quality videos that get the user’s attention

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Nofollow, Sponsored, and UGC Links Guide

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Introducing the Nofollow, Sponsored, & UGC Attributes On Tuesday, September 10th, 2019, Google announced that the currently 14-year-old “nofollow” attribute would be set to receive two significant new siblings: the “sponsored” attribute and the “UGC” attribute (UGC stands for “user-generated content”). So, why improve something if it is not broken? Why two new attributes where

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Dofollow, Nofollow, Sponsored, UGC

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A Change to Nofollow Last month Google announced they were going to change how they treated nofollow, moving it from a directive toward a hint. As part of that they also announced the release of parallel attributes rel=”sponsored” for sponsored links & rel=”ugc” for user generated content in areas like forums & blog comments. Why

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Understanding Google’s New Guidelines on Nofollow Links (+9 Takeaways)

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Google recently announced a change to the way they implement the nofollow attribute for links.

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Is Google’s Nofollow Change a Peek into SEO’s Future?

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Google has made more than a few search-engine changes over time. Remember Authorship? Search optimizers once built recommendations around it. We had to insert code on web pages. Then one day, poof, Google discontinued it. Another example is PageRank sculpting. Back in 2009, former Google engineer Matt Cutts addressed its benefits. Again, search optimizers spent

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Google Changes Nofollow Link Guidelines & More Recent News

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Hey, everyone! Welcome back to the blog for another online advertising news round-up. We’ve got seven stories for you this week: Google changing the way it interprets nofollow links, Facebook testing in-app checkout, and more! Let’s dive in. 1. Google announces changes to nofollow links In an effort to aggregate more information and “better understand

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