Do I need to add nofollow rel attribute to links if the href page contains a robots meta tag containing noindex and nofollow?

Question

If i have a page (\"dontFollowMe.html\") with the meta tag:

< meta  name = \"robots\"  content = \"noindex, nofollow\"  / >

... and I li

Answer 1

nofollow as value of meta-robots and nofollow as link type mean different things, or exactly the same, depending on which definition you follow (details).

HTML5 defines that the link type nofollow

[…] indicates that the link is not endorsed by the original author or publisher of the page, or that the link to the referenced document was included primarily because of a commercial relationship between people affiliated with the two pages.

It does not mean that the link should/must not be followed by visitors/bots.

So unless you do not endorse the link to your dontFollowMe.html, or unless you have only added it for commercial reasons (i.e., advertisement), you should not use the nofollow link type.