All webmasters try to keep informed about Google algorithm updates because following its guidelines determines how high websites can rank on search engines. Having links on your web pages can be considered an important ranking factor that will help your site maintain a good position on SERPs.
There are many other ranking factors but since the beginning of running a search, links have always been emphasized. During one of the updates released by Google in 2005, nofollow links were introduced.
The nofollow link was meant to discourage spam comments and paid links. Having nofollow link attributes on your website would prevent Google from crawling, indexing, and analyzing a link you never wanted to associate with your website because you do not trust it.
You can set the links of contributors you do not approve or any of your web pages you don’t want Google bot to crawl as Nofollow.
With the10th September 2020 update and Google’s announcement that nofollow links and two other links would now be used as “hints” to know which links should be considered or excluded from the search, it has become necessary to take a deep look at nofollow links.
As of March 1, 2020, using this link attribute for ranking consideration took effect. Nofollow links will also be used for crawling and indexing content on websites. The other two links introduced by Google are:
- Sponsored Link Attribute;
- UGC Attributes
Using Google Search Console, I sometimes see only a 'picture' from my posts listed with a separate URL that I have never intentionally created.
For example https://healthywealthyhappyandwise.com/happiness-can-be-found-in-the-smallest-things/
This link listed in google takes me to my website and shows only the picture and not the whole article.
This is not good for customer experience as they will click away believing that I'm only showing a picture. The URL does not even indicate which of my articles the picture is included in.
When I create my articles, I add pictures using either the WA site content editor or the WP 'New Post' editor. The only information I add is an 'alt tag.'
What am I doing wrong when adding pictures to my articles that make them show in google searches with a separate URL?
And if I cannot prevent this from happening, how can I ensure that the query leads to the complete article instead of just to the one picture?
Any information is appreciated.
Kind regards,
Andrew
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I am getting the images ranked with the url and they do not look nice if someone clicks on them.
If I understand your training correctly, I have to mark the images as nofollow? Do you know if there is a way to change the permalink of these images or I have to delete and upload them again so they do not rank like this. Thank you. Marisa
Should I now do the following - is this correct?
Add rel="nofollow" to link
ADD THIS TO AFFILIATE LINKS IE AMAZON OR CLICKBANK?
Add rel="sponsored" to link
ADD THIS TO GUEST POSTS?
Add rel="UGC" to link
ADD THIS TO... I DON´T GET THIS ONE!
Thanks for your clarification.
Susan
devotedtoanimals.com
Israel Olatunji
As for all your training, this one is very informative. But it also is very confusing (for such a newbie as I am).
For example, you said, "UGC Attribute denotes User Generated Content and it's the attribute for UGC such as forum posts, guest posts, and blog comments". How and where should I place this attribute? It would be really helpful if you provide some examples.
Thank you,
Jane
Israel Olatunji
Israel Olatunji
