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	2	deleted 4 characters in body source \| link	edited Oct 11 '14 at 11:38 Tim Fountain 3,8791 gold badge13 silver badges19 bronze badges
inline side-by-side side-by-side markdown No, theyThey are for different things. The meta tag is for crawling - whether or not search engine robots should follow links on your page in order to find other pages to crawl. The `rel="nofollow"` attribute is specifically for links that shouldn't pass PageRank. No, they are for different things. The meta tag is for crawling - whether or not search engine robots should follow links on your page in order to find other pages to crawl. The `rel="nofollow"` attribute is specifically for links that shouldn't pass PageRank. They are for different things. The meta tag is for crawling - whether or not search engine robots should follow links on your page in order to find other pages to crawl. The `rel="nofollow"` attribute is specifically for links that shouldn't pass PageRank.

	1	source \| link	answered Jun 20 '13 at 17:21 Tim Fountain 3,8791 gold badge13 silver badges19 bronze badges
No, they are for different things. The meta tag is for crawling - whether or not search engine robots should follow links on your page in order to find other pages to crawl. The `rel="nofollow"` attribute is specifically for links that shouldn't pass PageRank.