rel="sponsored"

I never said that spamming blogs with comments or forums or creating content on web 2.0 properties ... I said these would be "UCG" - user generated content tags which probably won't pass much link juice.
User generated content isn't necessarily bad. A lot of big websites rely on people's reviews and experiences. And I`m pretty sure that google spiders are smart enough to spot UCG in forum thread form and comments from the CMS.. but you're right, those links were already pretty hit, they'll get hit even more. Good thing you can create millions of them, right? (just a joke, I'm kind of using your technique too:)) )
 
Do you see Google punishing site owners for NOT using these tags?
I think that would take a LOT of education and I don't see that being done for this. Remember the push for SSL? That took every major company working together and hosting providers harassing their customers about going to SSL. Even then it was months after the deadline before it become an alleged ranking factor. There are too many sites out there and many that don't focus on SEO like we do and likely won't know about the tags.
 
Here we go...

rel="sponsored":
Use the sponsored attribute to identify links on your site that were created as part of advertisements, sponsorships or other compensation agreements.

rel="ugc": UGC stands for User Generated Content, and the ugc attribute value is recommended for links within user generated content, such as comments and forum posts.

Source: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/evolving-nofollow-new-ways-to-identify.html
Thanks
 
Since I'm not a big Fan of Googles little manipulative tricks I'm just not going to play.
 
It's just another way to determine link value. It seems as though it will go, in order of value - follow, nofollow, ugc, sponsored
 
Thanks for the alert. Don't know how I missed this. BHW for the win.
 
It's just another way to determine link value. It seems as though it will go, in order of value - follow, nofollow, ugc, sponsored

Do you not think it will be: follow, sponsored, nofollow, ugc ?
 
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rel="sape"
rel="parasite"
rel="tier2"

You don't have to use these, but we recommend it. Don't use them if you don't want, but we would reeeeeeealy like it if you did. Remember, you don't have to......

Hey, look over there... Is that a sandbox?
Oh, wait. That's nothing. I must have imagined it. Oh well.

Anyway...
:wink:
You have a nice day.

LOL
rel="boosted301"
rel="agedexpireddomain"
 
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I guess Google would like to penalize shady sites if caught accepting anything of value in exchange for linking out without the Nofollow attribute
 
How do you see about the outgoing links you have to affiliates (as a casino affiliate site's outgoing links to casinos) right now people put no-follow on. what can be the impact of changing to rel="sponsored" instead of no-follow.
 
This got confusing. Do any of you use these new rels?
Would it be better to not use any rels and appear an SEO noob as a commenter above suggested?
 
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