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Updates on Google Crawl and Indexing

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In late 2019, Google announced a two-part update which was based on treating nofollows. The next part of this update will come on March 1, 2020. Nofollow Update This update will affect the crawling and indexing of all the nofollow links. Previously Google used to treat all the nofollow links as a directive. However, it will change on March 1st, 2020. From the 1st of March, Google will treat all the nofollow links as a hint for indexing, as well as for crawling.  The announcement from the house of Google was as follows, “For crawling and indexing purposes, nofollow will become a hint as of March 1, 2020.” Nofollow Policy Many people use nofollow to keep their pages from being crawled. Here it is important to understand that blocking Google from indexing and crawling w