Are nofollow links worth getting? Or are they almost irrelevant?

Matt Cutts says that for SEO, nofollow links are useless. But they can drive traffic to your blog if someone reading the article clicks on that link.

In all honesty, our research in our SEO labs point out that NOFOLLOW links do count towards your ranking in the search engines. We've optimized similar sites, one without NOFOLLOW links pointing to it and one with, and the one with the NOFOLLOW links performed better. Not just a bit better, but markedly better.