Yesterday, we reported that Google sent out departing linking penalties to a mass number of webmasters over the weekend. It clad that this was directly associated with the warning from Google some weeks past for web loggers to disclose free product reviews intrinsically and nofollow links in their blog posts over these product reviews.
Google told bloggers to “nofollow the link, if you choose to link to the company’s web site, the company’s social media accounts, an internet merchant’s page that sells the merchandise, a review service’s page that includes reviews of the merchandise or the company’s mobile app in associate degree app store.”
Well, currently that the warning was communicated, some weeks later, in typical Google vogue, Google really sent out manual actions for people who failed to fits those tips.
John Mueller from Google commented in a very few threads within the Google support forums telling individuals to seem at the warning Google revealed some weeks past named Best practices for bloggers reviewing free product they receive from firms. He added:
In specific, if a post was made because of a free product (or free service, or simply paid, etc.), then any links placed there because of that require to possess a rel=nofollow connected to them. This includes links to the merchandise itself, any sales pages (such as on Amazon), affiliate links, social media profiles, etc. that are related to that post. in addition, I imagine your readers would additionally appreciate it if those posts were labelled suitably. It’s fine to stay these types of posts up, generally there’s lots of helpful data in them! but, the links in those posts specifically ought to be changed so they don’t pass PageRank (by using the rel=nofollow).
Once these links are cleansed up suitably, feel free to submit a reconsideration request, so the webspam team will assure and take away the manual action.