What's the latest wisdom on nofollow links?

[littleman]

Are they useless?  Or do they still carry some weight?

[eljefe3]

I subscribe to a few "linking" services and they are all using no follows as a way to try to look natural.  ahrefs and majesticseo show these, so I would speculate that they still factor a bit, but have no concrete proof as the latest update zapped a lot of hard work  .

[Adam C]

Most domains acquire nofollows without trying.  If you don't, then maybe that looks odd to Google.

IMV this is one of those areas that gets more airtime than it should

^^ let me caveat my minor rant above by saying this is my common sense take on the subject, not based on extensive testing

[h00t]

Given that Google suggest you either remove or nofollow "bad" links if you've received a penalty in Google Webmaster Tools then I'd suggest they have no ranking value.

[IrishWonder]

Wait a moment, the signal we're talking about in this case is the change from a followed link to a nofollowed one - dynamically. If the link is nofollowed from the very start it's a grey area. They can 100% get a URL indexed - something I've known for ages. As for ranking, I'm not ready to say anything for sure.