using meta nofollow, will the links in the page still...

count as link-to? grant pagerank to the linked site?

[Xuefer]

i have a page that show user submited data, such as hyperlinks
however, user-submited-links is not what the site really want to
so i wanna add a nofollow meta tag in the page
but, is it good to me the site owner?

i think it's good for the user if SE bots crawl that url AND count as link-to, and grant pagerank from the page. ture?

[Xuefer]

what i want to do is to discourage user who wanna "earn" PR by posting URLs linking to their own webpage

relative link:
[webmasterworld.com...]

[doc_z]

Xuefer,

a 'nofollow' is a waste of PR. For your own PR, it's even worser than a 'follow'. The reason is that PR (with 'nofollow') is completly wasted, while you will get a small benefit if you use 'follow' (assuming that you have not only outgoing links but also some internal links on that page).

If you want prevent that PR is transferred to external pages, I would use other solutions (e.g. JS).

[Xuefer]

did u mean to user-submited-links in js?
sorry, it's dyn-created content
maybe i have to use sth. like <script>document.write('<a href=..........');</script>

[doc_z]

Yes, you can use <script>document.write('<a href=..........');</script> or something like <a href="#" onClick="openWindow('URL')"> with a function 'openWindow'. Googlebot cannot read JS. Therefore, these are hidden links and PR is not passed to external pages.

[GrinninGordon]

It is my belief you may also be doing harm to your own site by NOT giving clean links. In my book, Google now likes outbound links again (the right ones, in the right place). Sites with no outbound links lose big time. Sites with fewer outbound links lose something. To do with being a "hub" or "portal".