Does rel="nofollow" links give SOME impact after all?

[mikomido]

Surely not even Google can completely disregard the value of a nofollow link? Every site I see has this on links, so then links would become useless and the point of the Web would be lost?

[tedster]

They can do it, and according to Matt Cutts, they do.

Matt Cutts: "...for Google, nofollow'ed links are dropped out of our link graph; we don't even use such links for discovery. By the way, the nofollow meta tag does that same thing, but at a page level."

[seomoz.org...]

Because paid link discussions are sprouting up all over the place, I'm going to keep this thread short and sweet, and lock it.