Is it worth to add nofollow attribute to links with 302 redirection

[ArtB]

Hi

Is it worth to add nofollow attribute to links with 302 redirection if you don't want pass the PR?
Or maybe 302 redirection doesn't pass the PR?

[incrediblehelp]

I am not one to advocate using the nofollow attribute, but yes that might work. Why not block in the robots.txt? Not sure how much PR will be passed anyway as a 302 is s temporary redirect.

[ArtB]

Thanks for response incrediblehelp
Blocking them in robots.txt is a good idea but I have around 2000 links and they change over the time so nofollow attribute is easier to use.

[wige]

Google officially recommends three ways to not pass PR. Use of the nofollow directive is the newest way, but it is not necessarily the preferred one. It was developed as a counter to exploits arising from user generated content (forum spam for example). The two original methods to block the flow of page rank are: to use an interstitial page (that says "You are about to leave our page and go to xyz.com, its not our fault if they offend you...") which is blocked by robots.txt, or the use of a 302 redirect. The 302 redirect method is actually used by the search engines themselves. (all results in SERPs go through a 302 redirect on Google, Yahoo and MSN.)

[ArtB]

So to conclude: Is not worth to add nofollow attribute to links with 302 redirection as 302 doesn’t pass PR.

[wige]

Correct. You should only need to implement one of the available methods.