{"id":3772,"date":"2014-01-10T14:39:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T14:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/official-googles-latest-official-stance-on-links-within-widgets-181475\/"},"modified":"2014-01-10T14:39:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T14:39:15","slug":"official-googles-latest-official-stance-on-links-within-widgets-181475","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/official-googles-latest-official-stance-on-links-within-widgets-181475\/","title":{"rendered":"Google's Latest Official Stance On Links Within Widgets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just five-months ago Google’s head of search spam strongly recommended to nofollow links in widgets<\/a> because the widget space has been abused with link spam.<\/p>\n

That may have changed with a small but significant update<\/a> to the Google Webmaster Guidelines link schemes<\/a> page. Now, the page specifies the exact type of links that are not allowed within widgets, as opposed to saying any links.<\/p>\n

Previously the guideline read:<\/p>\n

Today the guideline reads:<\/p>\n

As you can see, Google changed their stance on the type of links you can have in widgets. Specifically saying that not all links are not allowed but only keyword rich, hidden or low-quality links are not allowed.<\/p>\n

Here is the video from Matt Cutts on widget links:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Hat tip to Kenichi Suzuki<\/a> for sharing this with us.<\/i><\/p>\n

Postscript:<\/strong> Matt Cutts tweeted the real reason they made the change in the terminology. It was because of Danny Sullivan, he said it was too general and Google should be more specific. So Google updated the content to be more specific:<\/p>\n

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