Article by Pierre Zarokian. In 2019, Google made some announcements that created some waves in the SEO industry. First, the “nofollow” link attribute was going to be treated as a hint, rather than a signal not to count a link when determining a page’s ranking. This means that Google can choose to take some nofollow links into consideration when ranking certain pages. Second, they announced two new options intended to be the next evolution of the nofollow tag. Site owners are able to tag their links with “sponsored” or “ugc,” which add more specificity to identifying the types of links they want Google to ignore. However, SEO experts have admitted…