According to Brett Tabke in this thread, links within the NOSCRIPT tag are not counted by Google in terms of passing PageRank.
Brett adds that "Google flips on/off support for noscript indexing from time to time," meaning Google may not even index the contents within the NOSCRIPT area.
He says Google will follow the links but not assign any value to those links.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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