Google’s new treatment of nofollow links has arrived

[Nenad]

Interesting read:
https://searchengineland-com.cdn.amp...arrived-329862

[newcustomeroffer]

If you were using nofollow to block any sensitive areas of your site that you didn’t want crawled, it probably makes sense to go block these in a different way,” Patrick Stox, technical SEO and brand ambassador for Ahrefs, told Search Engine Land. There are various ways, such as robots.txt or meta tags, that you can use to regulate how Google crawls and indexes pages. As for the UGC and sponsored attributes, implementing them is voluntary. If you want to provide Google with that information (and have links classified for your own reference), feel free to do so. Whether you do or don’t won’t impact your site.

So in short, do nothing is fine then unless using nofollow to (attempt to) stop indexing of certain pages if I'm reading this right.

[Nenad]

Exactly that. I believe you've read it right.

[Christiaan]

So in short, do nothing is fine then unless using nofollow to (attempt to) stop indexing of certain pages if I'm reading this right.

I think that was already a bad practice if you wanted to stop indexing certain pages. Just put a no-index in the header of the page.

[newcustomeroffer]

Exactly that. I believe you've read it right.

Only logical assumption I can make then is that this will send a positive signal of some form to Google for those who bother to do it. OK, one for the list then!