Google's new rel="sponsored" attribute, good or bad?

[rakesh20]

Yesterday Google announced that from next year, it will use the rel="sponsored" attribute in order to identify and understand the paid links. What do you guys think about it apart from just being no-follow?

[ksmith29]

I don't think that it is going to effect much on anything. Because while clicking away a user doesn't necessarily check whether the links is no-follow or something else.

Ask yourself this how many time while genuinely browsing the web you check the link attribute carefully??!!

[lata21]

What I heard that its about no-follow attribute.

[mediamonster]

Some are saying that all these fuss is for nothing. More or less its just the same.

[tomsfashion2019]

Google says there is no wrong attribute to use except in the case of sponsored links. If a link is marked as sponsored when it's not actually part of an ad or sponsorship, then the impact will be lessened.

[anush]

You people are thinking way too much then it is actually needed.

[bpatel]

What I don't understand is that why it is so big of a deal anyway?

[limbo]

All the community boards have started working on making their links UGC.