martinibuster - 11:03 am on Mar 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

Does that make it a 1 way link in googles eyes from them to me or does google still recognise it as a reciprocal but just without passing pr?

That last part is interesting because it speaks to the heart of the potential abuse of the nofollow tag. You would think that the search engines would have something in place to deal with nofollow abuse. So you ask...

If Brian Boitano was a search engineer... What would Brian Boitano do?

Wouldn't it be interesting if the search engines identified it as a reciprocal and awarded a reciprocal link score (+/- or whatever) to the Linking Page, while simultaneously not awarding a benefit to the receiving party?

OR, how about...
In the case of a reciprocal link, the nofollow tag is ignored?

AND, how about...
If the search engines aren't doing that, maybe they should?

I'm just speculating, that's all. Good question.