ugc

We recently completed an SEO analysis, as our site traffic took a big hit with the September 2022 Google update. One of the recommendations was to mark all the thread titles and posts with rel="ugc", to designate them as user-generated content. Have others done this? If so, how did you...

Google has announced expansion of rel="nofollow" link standard to contain more detailed rel="ugc" for User Generated Content. This may also be combined with existing nofollow - to be rel="ugc nofollow". I think this may be a good addition to external links in posts at some point in time...

I know that many large site owners here will have seen a drop in search engine referral traffic, particularly starting in November 2012. It seems to be a common story for large UGC sites, using all sorts of different forum software. I'm sure many sites weren't affected (or benefited) - so this...