kflanagan - 8:27 pm on Jul 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

I would agree with previous points. There is a distinction to be made about using nofollow on internal and external links. The use of nofollow links on external are sometimes required when using paid links or linking out to a site you don't want to be associated with.

It's kind of frustrating they have removed this in terms of using it for some pages in your site you don't want to pass PR too. Even if you use the robots.txt file to deindex these pages. In a typical dynamic site you may have lots of links pointing to worthless pages and even with these pages deindexed, PR is still leaking to it.

I always suggest not to tinker with your site if it's not performing well. If your site is heavily sculpted and doing well, no point in backing out those links. Google said this was done over a year ago, so any ill effects should have been noticed a long time ago.

It sure does leave a lot of wordpress plugins defunct !