Two days ago I wrote Google May Have Changed How PageRank Flows With Nofollow Links. It basically covers how Andrey Lipattsev from Google said something different from Matt Cutts on how PageRank flows from a page with dofollow and nofollow links on it.

I reason I covered it was because it differed from what Matt Cutts said years before. The question itself is interesting only because Matt went into it in great detail in 2009. Then we have a new Googler saying something else, so that is interesting – at least for the readers here.

Philip Busk asked Google’s John Mueller about this in a Google+ hangout this morning at the 7:50 minute mark:

John answered that I took the question out of the context and that I should use more than Google Translate when translating the Russian statement. He said:

So I did, I emailed Google PR immediately when I heard it asking for clarification. I have yet to hear back. I did ask native Russian speakers to help translate it as well and in context, it came out right. But I did ask Google for an official statement on the remarks Andrey made and yes, I am still waiting to hear back.

That being said, John did dodge the question – possibly because (1) he doesn’t know and (2) he really doesn’t want webmasters to focus on this. But that all being true, the question is only valid because Matt Cutts addressed it in detail back in 2009. John said:

Of course, most of us would agree with that.

So ignore PageRank flow.

Forum discussion at Google+.