Google's March Update on Nofollow Tag

Have you implemented a rel=sponsored and rel=ugc tag on your sites?

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Hello everyone, good day!

When I surfed on Google updates I got this image

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Now I'm curious to know how IM'ers taking seriously on it! Most people still not aware of it.

Is that update done any changes on Ranking? and, Do you guys think that it is the biggest and most important tag update of Google?

Thoughts?!
 
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People have been having problems figuring out how nofollow links really work and now google gives them 2 new attribute values and 6 different combinations! People will go nuts.
 
IMHO, we have to concern about this. Google has clearly worked on it to avoid over monetizing the backlinks! In the near future, it will give you a big change in ranking when building links with these rel tags attributes.
 
I guess we can look forward to many forums applying the UGC tag automatically now?

Personally, not gonna change anything for me. I rarely use nofollow anyway.
 
why would anyone admit to rel="sponsored"? Isn't paid links against Google guidelines?

I'd rather not risk it and just get nofollow.
 
They are nice at Google but they are starting to seriously get me drunk, soon we are going to have to submit our backlinks directly to them while we are there? as much say it immediately put the sponsored tag will deteriorate the image of the site receiving the link, at least it can be used to make negative seo ...
 
The big G- google telling they may consider no-follow link for indexing. I am just getting laugh because the links with do-follows tags itself not indexing properly nowadays.
As of now, I can't see there are not many changes with this update.
 
Calling nofollow non-trusted is such an misinterpretation in my opinion.

To your question...

I have not implemented it and don't plan to honestly.

Next thing they'll ask us to add is PBN meta tag into <head> I bet.

Code: 
<meta name="robots" content="pbn">
 
Google will keep coming up with new updates, quality sites have already ranked, are still ranking and will keep ranking as long as they're premium and better than everyone else in the niche. So, the agenda should be to stop worrying, always focus on quality rather than quantity and make a handful of changes depending upon the current updates and not the other way where you start from scratch everytime a new update comes and build your sites around it.
 
queenjude said:
why would anyone admit to rel="sponsored"? Isn't paid links against Google guidelines?

I'd rather not risk it and just get nofollow.
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Might be more relevant to big publishers.
In Google's eyes, it could seem like a solid way for a place like CNN to identify a sponsored article all the way through. E.g. marking it as paid for by showing the word "sponsored" for readers, but also making it easy for spiders to understand the purpose of the article.
 
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