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That is why Google now also says: “We see the nofollow attribute as a hint”, and that allows them to better determine the popularity of sites.” “It has been coming for a while” Jan-Willem Bobbink, Notprovided.eu “It has been coming for a while: on the one hand, Google has been trying to identify unnatural and paid links on a large scale based on their own processes. A first attempt to enrich that analysis was via the disavow tool (SEOs send in striking links themselves), but that apparently did not yield the desired results.
By now tasking webmasters with tagging sites, there is a new influx of link data: predefined links in neat groups, so that Google's training data is enriched for free. On the other hand, too many links are provided with a nofollow directive, with the result that Google photo editor received insufficient data for a representative representation of the web. Little will change for the time being because these types of changes are only implemented directly by the major publishers.
Then we have to wait for platforms such as WordPress that will also fill in the new directives by default for specific configurations. Here and there perhaps some small shifts in the search results in niches where there are relatively many nofollow links. Following on from this, I will immediately give you a number of useful websites with which you can keep an eye on the impact of Google updates yourself. Regularly check Google Grump from Accuranker, Miscast from MOZ or Algoroo to see the current movements in the Google rankings.
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