Should you "rel=nofollow" picture links if you also have anchor text going to same page?

[Restore]

On our pages we are having icons that link to different pages.  In order to make it more user friendly we are also having some anchor text that also link to the same page as the icon.  Is it bad to have two links pointing at the same page.  We have multiple icons on the homepage and don't want to pass double of the link power!

Thanks!!

[Restore]

Thanks!

[atakala]

great explanation Alan, thank you!

[AlanMosley]

first lets separate PageRank for relevancy

Relevancy is passed once to a page, if you have 2 links to the same page then the link text from the first link will be used,

if that link is a image link then alt text will be used, but most say alt text does not have the same power as link text, so having the text link first on the page would help.

I don't no if no-following a link will move the relevancy to the next link, I think you may just lose the relevancy

PageRank is passed though all links, even no followed links. a no-followed link will use the same PR but it jus goes nowhere, it is wasted.

So links such as
page1
page2
page3
All links will pass relevancy and PR

page1
page1
page2
page3
all will pass PR split between al links, but the second link to page1 will not carry relevancy