GTServices Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 In new version, you may want to consider adding the new NOFOLLOW options. Leave it up to the admins to decide how to use NOFOLLOW. You can read more about here... Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of links Qualify your outbound links to Google Sonya*, Zdeněk Tůma and zyx 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sadams101 Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 In my opinion the default should be "external ugc" for all content, however, there should be an option, for example check boxes when you add an article, for additional tags like "sponsored," that would allow you to customize the tags more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 Quote Google offers no incentive for changing, or punishment for not changing What would you hope to achieve through this change? Google (currently at least) treats sponsored/ugc the same as specifying nofollow from an SEO standpoint. GTServices 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTServices Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 I agree, the NOFOLLOW on everything will still work but it doesn't help Google better understand and process links on my site as well as sites pointing to my site. Eventually, Google will make the proposed changes a requirement or drop it altogether. Google makes changes gradually. Plus, it doesn't hurt to give admins some control over this. Currently, it's either NOFOLLOW or nothing. (Just make the current option a dropdown.) Let us decide. CoffeeCake, Sonya* and Jirinex 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jirinex Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Totally agree! We have advertisers which they do not want a nofollow link and there's not an easy way to change that, especially for not admin users. Sonya* and GTServices 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonya* Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 1 hour ago, Jirinex said: We have advertisers which they do not want a nofollow link Same here. We have advertisers that pay only for follow links. GTServices 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadams101 Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 (edited) I think it's a good idea to be more specific, and certainly adding "sponsored" is very important to be able to do, so that google knows a link is sponsored. Now it can be "sponsored" without "nofollow" and still be fine with google. For all my forum links and comment links I decided this was best because it is more specific: "external ugc nofollow." Google indicates on that page that forums, for example, can use "ugc" to indicate that it is user generated, which is different than just nofollow, which doesn't tell you anything (it could be nofollow because it is sponsored, so now google cannot tell whether it is sponsored or flagged nofollow because it is UGC). Interestingly google also says that for "trusted" users, for example old forum members who regularly post good links it is ok to remove the "nofollow" on them. So there really should be a setting where you can set the default for all users, but then go in and change them for selected users, or perhaps even make it tied to advancing to a certain group, for example those who have over 100 posts will have the "nofollow" removed. Just some ideas, but what is clear is that google cannot now tell whether a link is nofollow because it is sponsored, or just UGC, and it is important to tell google this. By adding the UGC tag I've done that. Edited March 25, 2020 by sadams101 GTServices and blair 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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