instinct - 8:30 pm on Jan 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

I they are smart (they are of course), they will figure out a way to recognise reciprical links where one partner has the 'nofollow' attribute.

Example:

Site A: <a href="site b.com">
Site B: <a href="site a.com" rel="nofollow">

Although B will never pass PR to A, maybe the link from A to B will be devalued. Perhaps it should be weighted as somewhere between a one-way link and a reciprical one?

I think (hope) that Google have thought this through. I am personally not convinced that the "nofollow" attribute means that the link is going to be ignored entirely. It may not pass PR, but it's existance might downgrade the PR transfer from the same site linked out to.

It would be interesting if a bunch of webmasters replace their javascript/redirect code with the nofollow attribute thinking it will have the same effect - only to find that it doesn't.

This is going to be interesting.