I now see from Scott G’s comment the reason why your hubpages have a nofollow attribute and mine do not. Increase your involvement and you should see your links passing rank soon.

Also, I’m not entirely sold that search engines place that much emphasis on the nofollow or always regard it, so keep publishing links (on HubPages and others) with good content and you will get the traffic and rank you seek.

Cheers, Laura

p.s. Here’s an October 3, 2009 update I just learned from the smart folks at Traffic Kahuna re HubPage’s nofollow policy. Once your HubPage reaches a 70 HubRank the nofollow tag is removed. My advice? Add some content, visit other HubPages and add relevant comments/questions, get involved and create quality content – that way you’ll get all the ranking juice you want.

Because when I look at source, placed links do NOT have a nofollow attribute. Only the links to amazon, etc. Not trying to sound smug here, but perhaps you need to take a closer look – or, send me the url of your hubpage and I’ll check it out personally.

Laura Childs