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Nofollow

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A link attribute telling search engines not to pass ranking signals.

The nofollow value was created to mark untrusted or paid links, and Google now treats it as a hint. Related attributes are sponsored for paid links and ugc for user-generated content.

Ritesh kumar
Founder of the2m2g, writing about SEO in plain English.