I am going to attempt to debunk almost every Wordpress SEO "Expert" article ever written, and in some respects this article even debunks some of the things I have written in the past.
This article does not reference Google Toolbar PageRank in any wayFirst of all you are going to need to do a little homework.
Eric Enge interview with Matt Cutts
This is just an aside, as the amount of juice lost to dangling pages currently is hard to determine, and could be handled differentlyThey are assuming that if page A links to 6 other pages, 5 of them being dangling links, then the website will be treated as only having 2 pages until the end of the calculation.
Whilst I haven't delved into the maths (and probably couldn't through lack of information and lack of knowledge), it also seems to me that at the time the pages are taken out of the cyclic calculation, a percentage of the link value can still be taken with them.
Thus though the site for cyclic calculations will be just 2 pages, the link from A to B might only transfer 1/6 of the juice on each cycle.
At the time the original paper was written, Google only had a small proportion of the web indexed due to hardware and operating system restraints.
In modern times they have a lot more indexed, thus a more complex way of handling dangling pages could be possible.
More food for thought, a link to a page that is considered supplemental could be treated as a full link or as a link to a dangling page, or some other variant.
Even more food for thought, a site with multiple interlinked pages with no external links at all could be looked on as a "dangling site".
Ultimately what is important is that dangling pages are a juice leak, though it is difficult to determine exactly how muchAdditional Research On Link Juice Flow
I have referenced these works before, and I am just going to keep on referring people to them.
Blocking Pages With Robots.txt Creates Dangling Pages On The First Tier
In the quoted paragraph above, Matt clearly states that pages blocked with Robots.txt still accumulate juice from the links they receive.
Those pages don't have any external 2nd tier links that are visible to a 'bot, thus they are dangling pages.How much juice they leak depends on how Google currently factor in dangling pages, but Matt himself suggests not to create dangling pages.
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