John Keegan gives a simple and straightforward comment on the NOFOLLOW meme : Some of the « a list » bloggers talk about NOFOLLOW being of benefit to them since they can now link to sites without necessarily helping them increase their ranking in Google, but the typical blogger won’t be affected by this at all. The average blogger doesn’t really care about giving his so-called « Googlejuice » to an undeserving linker, he doesn’t have much to begin with.
That typical blogger just wants to know if using NOFOLLOW will reduce the amount of spam heaped on his blog. Unfortunately, the answer is no. Won’t help at all…