Will a link to a disallowed page transfer PageRank?

Steen in Copenhagen asks, “If a page is disallowed in the robots.txt, will a link to this page transfer/leak link juice?”

So essentially suppose ebay.com is allowed in robots.txt will a link to ebay.com even though it’s roboted-out will it still collect link juice? And the answer is yes. So in the old days New York Times, eBay, the California DMV, all of them blocked us with robots.txt. And yet if someone comes to Google and types in California DMV you want to return the DMV’s home page. So we solve that by not crawling the page but we can still return the reference and so if you see enough people link to a page even though its roboted-out we can still return that in our search results

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