By: Ted Ives

Yes, Matt Cutts announced they ignore NoFollow, back around 2009 or so – once. But subsequently SEOMoz (now Moz)’s annual study, I believe it was in 2010 or 2011, found ZERO difference between followed and nofollowed links from a ranking correlation perspective (it was buried in their charts and few noted or commented on this). Either way, you can always silo/route PageRank by deciding whether or not a link is to exist or not…so at least to that extent PR sculpting is certainly still a thing, regardless of which way you believe in nofollow