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The nofollow attribute is just a mechanism that gives webmasters the ability to modify PageRank flow at link-level granularity. There’s no stigma to using nofollow, even on your own internal links; for Google, nofollow’ed links are dropped out of our link graph; we don’t even use such links for discovery. By the way, the nofollow meta tag does that same thing, but at a page level
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