Google May Have altered How PageRank Flows With Nofollow Links

Back in 2009, Matt Cutts wrote on PageRank saying that what happens when you have a page with “ten PageRank points” and ten outgoing links, and five of those links are nofollowed? Let’s leave aside the decay factor to focus on the core part of the question. More than a year ago, Google changed how the PageRank flows so that the five links without nofollow would flow one point of PageRank each.

But this may have changed now. In 2009, Matt would have said 1/3rd. But Andrey Lipattsev from Google responded 1/2. He said "1/2 and you can sleep peacefully."

Now the question is, “Did Google change how they handle flowing PageRank when there are nofollow links on the same page?”