Originally Posted by jsteele823
Usually your menu would contain your category pages, in which case the anchors should be some of your most competitive terms. As such, you really wouldn't want to downplay the anchor text there, would you?
I know there are exceptions, so it really depends upon how you are using that navbar.
Yes, definitely would never nofollow navigation links. I know Google treats links in the navigation differently to other links but I wonder if links in the main content carry any anchor text value if they are linking to the same page as one of the navigation links. I hope that makes sense :p