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Originally Posted by AndrewASmith

Is PR the only difference? Will Googlebot still follow and index pages with nofollow? Does google it count as a backlink?

I think I happened to answered this same post at http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum...html#post799616

I'll paste my answer on this here as well

Dofollow - allows the site to pass PR on an outgoing link, thus counting as a vote for the quality of the site in the eyes of google

Nofollow - sends signal to the bot that the link is not vouched for so no PR is passed on. Even with a link being "nofollow", the bot still recognizes the link as valid.