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Originally Posted by seoguy
So, if it's counted as an internal link, I'm not linking to a page with content, that's why I wonder if it would be better using a nofollow tag.
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The family of "rel" tags, which includes attributes such as previous, help and bookmark, is intended to define a relationship between the current page and other pages to which it is linked.
Then along came message boards and blogs, with people placing links onto interactive pages as self-promotion. No "relationship" existed between the site where the links were posted and the sites being promoted and any assumption by the search engines that a relationship did exist might damage the original site (because of irrelevant links etc).
The "nofollow" tag was a response to that. It tells the search engines that here is a link you did not place on your site and it leads to an off-site destination that you do not want to be considered when analyzing your site. The spider should therefore not follow this link.
The tag has been abused by people with the intention of enhancing their internal PR distribution and such, but my guess would be that if this ever worked, Google & Co are wise to it by now and such use could backfire.