Google: You Do Not Need To Switch Rel Nofollow To Rel Sponsored

When Google announced the new link spam update, a ton of confusion arose with that announcement. The confusion was mostly around do you need to change your nofollow links to rel=sponsored for affiliate or similar links. The answer is no, nofollow is fine and you won't get in trouble for using nofollow instead of rel sponsored.


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Google Says It Does Not Ignore All Edu Links

John Mueller from Google said it is wrong to say that "Edu domains tend to have a ton of outbound links, and as such, Google ignores a big chunk of them." He said "People who focus on .edu links usually have bigger problems to worry about, but I've certainly never said what you're suggesting."


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On The Edge Of Google's Quality Threshold - Pages Disappear & Return After Submission

Gary Illyes from Google posted an awesome question and answer on Twitter talking about pages that are on the edge of the Google quality threshold. He said that if your pages disappear from Google Search and then reappear when you manually submit them to Google, that means you're on that edge.


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Google Fact Check Guidelines Now Disallows Multiple ClaimReview Per Page

Google has changed the guidelines around the fact check ClaimReview structured data guidelines to no longer allow multiple ClaimReview markups per page. You are now only allowed one ClaimReview element per page going forward.


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Google Product Experts Summit Swag 2021

Google Product Experts Summit Swag


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