Few SEO questions cause as much quiet anxiety as whether nofollow links quietly cap your site’s growth. Here is the direct answer before anything else.

Do nofollow links hurt SEO? No. Adding a nofollow attribute to your outbound links never harms your rankings or triggers a penalty, it is normal site hygiene. For inbound links, a nofollow backlink usually will not pass full ranking credit but since March 2020 Google treats nofollow as a hint rather than a strict rule, so it can still carry value.

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