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Discussion on: Help fight spam in our community! ๐Ÿ™Œ

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Ingo Steinke

rel=ugc is a universal attribute value invented by Google. It works similar to rel=nofollow. Moz.com has a good blog post on that aspect of search engine marketing and trying to prevent spammers misusing our own marketing and development effort: How Google's Rel = Nofollow, Sponsored, & UGC Links Impact SEO

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Jan Schenk (he/him)

Thanks for the read, Ingo!