Hi, Used to have many insite links on nofollow because I didn't want these to spread out too fast on google, this, in the past has caused the pages to either not exist on google or rank very very bad on it's results (which was ok). Now I need these links to be indexed and get listed normally in google, so I removed the nofollows everywhere, do I have any chance for this to happen ? (I'm talking about a top site with high crawl rate and more than 40K uniques daily. these links are of high pagerank and value thefor I prefer not to change their url)
Yes, they should gradually get indexed if they haven't been already. The nofollow reference attribute only tells Google not to pass on PR...as far as I know, it doesn't prevent indexing.
Searchbliss is correct, pages will still get indexed in Google even with nofollow. The only way to prevent an indexing of a page is to noindex nofollow each page. Actually, that's not the only way, but the easiest