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From March 1, 2020, Google will go a little further, and the platform will also use all link attributes as a 'hint' for crawling and indexing, meaning that Google could follow the links to index pages. Explanation of different link values. Source: Google Search Console Help What does this mean for SEO? Now the question is what the effects of this will be on SEO. Of course there is no definitive answer to this. I can only share Booming's insight and my own. The Google algorithm is a computer and it needs to be trained.
The more information is put into it, the better it can recognize patterns and assign value to them. With the new link attributes, the algorithm gets extra information, with which it can better define links. And with that, the algorithm is tweaked photo editor and made smarter. This allows the algorithm to better recognize anything that resembles sponsored or user-generated content , and therefore also to throw links that are not properly tagged into the correct 'bins.
Google recognizes better whether or not links should be given value. The chance is small, but links in user generated content could become slightly more important. It is still unpredictable what the exact effect of such an adjustment will be. Ultimately, Google wants to exclude 'link spam' as much as possible and count valuable links, in order to generate the best result for the user. It is still unclear whether other search engines such as Bing will adopt the new attributes, which is not the case at the moment . I've asked other SEO specialists what they think of this change, here's what they say.
The more information is put into it, the better it can recognize patterns and assign value to them. With the new link attributes, the algorithm gets extra information, with which it can better define links. And with that, the algorithm is tweaked photo editor and made smarter. This allows the algorithm to better recognize anything that resembles sponsored or user-generated content , and therefore also to throw links that are not properly tagged into the correct 'bins.
Google recognizes better whether or not links should be given value. The chance is small, but links in user generated content could become slightly more important. It is still unpredictable what the exact effect of such an adjustment will be. Ultimately, Google wants to exclude 'link spam' as much as possible and count valuable links, in order to generate the best result for the user. It is still unclear whether other search engines such as Bing will adopt the new attributes, which is not the case at the moment . I've asked other SEO specialists what they think of this change, here's what they say.