nofollow on links
The nofollow relationship marks a link whose destination should not receive the normal endorsement signal.
How it works
Modern search crawlers may treat it as a hint and can still discover or fetch the destination through that link or another source.
How to validate it
Record discovery separately from ranking or endorsement semantics; a fetched nofollow target does not prove the directive was ignored.
Common failure
Using nofollow as a security boundary or a guaranteed discovery block confuses link semantics with access control.
Machine-readable editions
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