QUOTE(chrishirst @ Nov 2 2010, 08:12 AM) 
Of course links with the rel="nofollow" attribute are being cached and indexed, they have to be by necessity!
How on earth would the search engines know that the attribute was there without indexing the page??????
How on earth would the search engines know that the attribute was there without indexing the page??????
I think if you ignore the fact some unethical individuals use the rel="nofollow" as an instrument of deception (when reciprocal linking for example), regular users would use the nofollow to link to pages which are worth mentioning BUT are somehow not as important as the rest of the pages, which will share the juice, then I guess its logical nofollow links have certain value, but not as high as normal links. Very hard to prove indeed
