Invisible nofollow to visitors but visible to search engines! The new trick?

I have come across this site:

www_girlmotor_co_uk

On the navigation in the left panel, if you click on Resources, the page no has PR while the homepage is PR4. Now this page has not been added recently. It has been there for a while now. Since the resources page is solely for reciprocal partners, i'm thinking that the webmaster has used some kind of blackhat seo to hide the nofollow for that page. I've tried the following:

1. View source code for both homepage and resources page - No meta tag for content nofollow detected.
2. View the link on the homepage for the resources page - no nofollow seen for the link
3. Read the robots.txt for the site - no exclusion for that page detected

Now i'm thinking the webmaster is masking the meta tag and showing the meta tag with nofollow only to search engines but not to the site visitors. Can anybody suggest a way to determine whether this is right or is there any other explanation for this?

thanks a lot,
fluid

 

Why do you think the resources page links are no-follow?

 

The page has been on the site for months, linked from the homepage PR4, yet it doesn't have a PR; not even PR0!

 

my site doesnt have pr's on some of the pages..others have..theres no trickery there my friend

SMSJOCK.Com index page - PR4
SMSJOCK Interactive Radio Mobile Marketing Solutions - PR3
SMSJOCK Interactive TV Mobile Marketing Soultions - unranked

and take note of it..i didnt do anything to hide or nofollow there or something else

 

Nope, I dont think they are using a blackhat technique..

 

Did you try checking the css?

 

There is no trick with that my friend.

It is through link building... PR is quality links...They build their links thats why and it is not blackhat.

 

I couldn't find anything in the css file to suggest they are using nofollow.

 

If a page has internal link from PR4 or even PR5, does not mean that it will have a PR.

 

I think that some internal pages that are not relevant to page's content - get lower benefits from internal linking.
If you have a site about Hats, with 20 inner pages for every hat model, and 1 inner page with your biography or with external resources, I bet google can figure out that this page does not really fit into the general picture, thus giving less internal PR, etc.

Just a theory...

 

PR is a measure of links to a webpage. Whether they are related to the website's theme is irrelevant for PR purposes; however for seo purposes they are crucial.

If a page is linked from a navigation menu (as in the example i showed), it is bound to have PR since it gets links from all pages indexed from the site.

 

There are exceptions.
One of my sites has a PR5 homepage, and about 60% of internal pages are PR3-4. And about 30% pages are PR 0, even if they are no different (in structure and internal inbound links) from the PR3-4 ones. They have not been changed during the last 6-7 months.

How can you explain that?

 

http://digpagerank.com/index.php?url=http://girlmotor.co.uk/&dc=18

 

Some sites get PR and some don't.