Nofollow is an attribute used to tell search engines not to pass any authority to the site which they are linking to. As search engine algorithms view links as ‘votes’ by nofollowing a link, sites effectively are not ‘voting’ or passing on any authority via this link. Nofollow is commonly used on user-generated content sites such as blog comments to discourage spamming.

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