"no follow"

[Randy5]

I heard you should avoid links that have a "no follow" designation. What does this mean? How can you tell if a link is "no follow" or not?

[suwunk]

Yes, If you want to promote your site via Link building

"Nofollow" provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines "Don't follow links on this page" or "Don't follow this specific link."

Originally, the nofollow attribute appeared in the page-level meta tag, and instructed search engines not to follow (i.e., crawl) any outgoing links on the page

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