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nofollow is a setting on a web page hyperlink that directs search engines not to use the link for page ranking calculations. It is specified in the page as a type of link relation; that is: <a rel="nofollow" ...>
. Because search engines often calculate a site's importance according to the number of hyperlinks from other sites, the nofollow
setting allows website authors to indicate that the presence of a link is not an endorsement of the target site's importance.