incrediBILL - 11:47 pm on Jun 3, 2011 (gmt 0)

Google seems to ignore them in ranking as well as not penalizing for the practice.

WMTs smacked ads on my site for "selling links" without the nofollow, i had to add it and beg for reinclusion.

Just because some get away with it doesn't mean you should try, it can bite you.