Meta Tag Generator

Meta tags tell search engines and social networks what a page is, how to show it and whether to index it. This meta tag generator uses the tags listed in Google's guide to meta tags Google understands, plus the social tags most sites need, and builds them into a clean, correctly escaped block of HTML. It covers the title, meta description, canonical link, robots rules, Open Graph and Twitter card tags.

What Is a Meta Tag Generator?

Meta tags live in the head of an HTML page and are not shown on the page itself. The title and meta description often appear in search results, and the canonical link points to the preferred version of a URL, which is easier to keep tidy if you build it with the slug generator. The robots tag controls indexing. Open Graph tags decide the title, text and image shown when someone shares your link on social media or in a messaging app.

A generator saves you from typing these by hand and from small mistakes that break them. Every value is HTML escaped, so a quote mark or ampersand in your title becomes " or & and cannot close the attribute early. Blank Open Graph fields fall back to your main title, description and canonical URL, so you only need to fill them in when you want different wording for social shares.

How to Use the Meta Tag Generator

Step 1: Add Your Title, Description and Canonical

Enter the page title and meta description. The counters next to each label tell you whether the length is good or too long, and the SERP preview tool shows how the pair could look in Google results. Add keywords only if you need them for an internal search tool, then paste the canonical URL.

Step 2: Choose Robots and Technical Tags

Leave robots on index and follow for normal pages. Choose noindex for thank you pages, internal search results or staging copies. Keep the charset and viewport tags ticked unless your theme already adds them.

Step 3: Fill In Open Graph and Twitter Card

Add a share image URL and pick the og:type. Use article for blog posts and website for most other pages. A large image card suits most content.

Step 4: Copy the Code

Check the hints, then press Copy code and paste the block inside the head element of your page template.

Which Meta Tags Matter Most?

Tag	What it does	Recommended
title	Main headline in search results and browser tabs	About 50 to 60 characters
meta description	Suggested snippet text under the title	About 120 to 160 characters
link rel="canonical"	Names the preferred URL for duplicate pages	One per page, absolute URL
meta robots	Allows or blocks indexing and link following	index, follow for normal pages
og:image	Image shown when the page is shared	1200 x 630 px
meta keywords	Ignored by Google for ranking	Optional

Open Graph was created so any page can become a rich object on social platforms, and the full list of properties is documented on the Open Graph protocol site. If you use WordPress with an SEO plugin, enter these values in the plugin fields instead of adding a second set of tags.

Frequently Asked Questions