How “nofollow” kills PageRank

Hi,
I have a big dilemma. Since Google started penalizing PR-passing links, I struggled to gather as many "nofollow" links within good content as possible – for a specific website that I have.
For another site I still continued obtaining PR-passing links ("do follow" – as if this existed…, so: standard links with no "rel" setting).
And behold: the first site still has no PR (after 3 years!) and didn't do that well in Google search. I followed all Google guidelines – so, I only obtained…
How "nofollow" kills PageRank

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