Today, we’ve announced two new link attributes - “sponsored” and “ugc” - that join “nofollow” as ways to identify the nature of links. All will now work as hints about which links Google Search should consider or exclude for ranking purposes. More details: webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/evolvi…
@googlewmc Workload for seos and devs has just increased significantly...
@googlewmc Do you really think we are going to get dev teams to start doing this, or content teams? We can hardly get them to write a title or description? What happens if we just ignore this? Seriously asking since no one is going to do this.
@googlewmc Ehm, @iAlbMedina @felixarntz @westonruter we have a Gutenberg ticket open that could use some help 😘 github.com/WordPress/gute…
@googlewmc Did you guys give thought to the number of homegrown & enterprise CMS tools that will need to be changed to support this change & how long it takes to get companies to make ANY changes to those tools? Then to get their teams of content people & devs to understand it & care?
@googlewmc @dannysullivan Finally some clear cut guidelines.
@googlewmc Btw did you give any thought to the idea that publishers may just stop linking put at all? If you haven't, you probably should.
@googlewmc Hey @googlewmc what about mobile friendliness? 😋
@googlewmc Do you seriously think bloggers and low tech content producers are going to implement a "ugc" tag?
@googlewmc @searchliaison What this this mean "For crawling and indexing purposes, nofollow will become a hint as of March 1, 2020." Nofollow is already in use, no? What will change in 2020?
@googlewmc Adding on @editorskit plugin for WordPress Gutenberg block editor as well 👌
@googlewmc Why are all the web giants suddenly pushing unreadable mobile content?
@googlewmc What about internal nofollow? Any change?
@googlewmc Is the sponsored link will be automatically NoFollow or need to add additional NoFollow rel volume to make it so. Like rel= "NoFollow sponsored"..
@googlewmc It’s good to see that these new attributes are way more important than subdomain parasite pages growing stronger with each day. I’m sure they will use “sponsored” on their pages too.
@googlewmc So, nofollow links may have some impact in future
@googlewmc How will rel="ugc" impact seo rank for a website like Pinterest where every pin is UGC? @dannysullivan @jwegan_com @JeffChang30
@googlewmc @googlewmc @dannysullivan If I accept free third-party articles on my blog site with the links, •What attribute should I use for those links? •If I won't mention any attributes, then what type of link will Google consider it. will it Do-follow?
@googlewmc This has now changed. All the link attributes -- sponsored, UGC and nofollow -- are treated as hints about which links to consider or exclude within Search. We’ll use these hints -- along with other signals -- as a way to better understand how to appropriately analyze.
@googlewmc Not sure what the difference is considering what nofollow already signifies
@googlewmc Excellent- thanks for continuing to advance the web, #Googlers!
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@googlewmc Cant read (ios 13/safari)
@googlewmc I find the shift to the "hint" model to be rather hubristic. It carves out more arbitration power for Googlebot at the expense of webmasters' agency. So many metadata are already technically only "suggestions" to Google; we shouldn't make things even murkier.
@googlewmc +1 for mobile version broken: Safari - iOS 12.4.1 (iPhone 8)