Does nofollow "earn" page rank used in irrelevant pages?

[silverbytes]

Heard matt cuts saying it's ok to use in privacy pages etck. But heard rumors about problems with ranking so I wonder if worth "earn" some page rank in some 2 or 3 pages in your site really...

Besides what about using it in href as rel="nofollow" instead in non desired pages using <META NAME=ROBOTS CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

[tedster]

The rel="nofollow" attribute means that specific link does not send any PageRank. Using nofollow in a robots meta tag means that no links on the page are followed at all. No PageRank for any of them.

[Robert Charlton]

Re "PageRank sculpting," as it's called, using rel="nofollow", take a look at this current thread...

Nofollow on internal links - reasons to be careful?
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[silverbytes]

No PageRank for any of them.

That means to me: more pr for important pages in my site, right? Seems healthy.

[tedster]

Maybe. It also breaks the PR circulation that goes through that page and on to its links, so the results may not be exactly what you hoped for in all cases.

[wheel]

>>> Maybe. It also breaks the PR circulation that goes through that page and on to its links, so the results may not be exactly what you hoped for in all cases.

Ouch. Even thinking about ramifications like that make my head hurt. PR from all the other pages pointing at the nofollow pages which then don't point back to the other pages on the site....

Now that you've brought that up I'm *really* glad I don't currently do PR sculpting :).