Meta Tag Generator
The head tags a page needs, with a search-result preview. Free, and runs entirely in your browser — nothing you enter is uploaded or stored.
About Meta Tag Generator
The block of tags that goes in a page's <head>: the title and description a search result is built from, the character set and viewport every page needs, the robots directive, and a canonical link. It writes them, and then tells you what is wrong with what you typed.
Length is where most descriptions go wrong. A search result shows roughly 60 characters of a title and 155 of a description before it truncates — the preview above the findings cuts at exactly those points, so you can see the sentence as a searcher would rather than as you wrote it.
The other common fault is a noindex left behind after a staging deployment, which quietly removes a page from search. That is called out in red rather than mentioned in passing.
The graded block at the end is the category's shared one — a letter, a score out of 100 and the findings behind it. A leftover noindex costs most of the score on its own, because it costs the page all of its traffic.
Where it helps
- Writes the whole head block, including the two tags people forget: charset and viewport.
- Shows the result as a search engine would, cut at the lengths that actually apply.
- Warns about a leftover noindex, a missing canonical and a description that wastes its space.
- Runs locally, so an unreleased page title is not sent anywhere.
Limits
- Character counts are a good guide, not a rule: search engines measure pixels, and a wide title is cut sooner than a narrow one.
- A search engine may still rewrite your title or description if it thinks a different one answers the query better.
- It writes the tags; it cannot tell whether the page beneath them deserves to rank.
- Social cards are a separate set of tags — use the Open Graph generator alongside this.
Frequently asked questions
How long should a title be?
About 50 to 60 characters. Put the distinctive words first, because the end is what gets cut off, and give every page a different one.
Do meta keywords still matter?
No. Google has ignored them since 2009 and they are not written here. Effort spent on them is effort not spent on the description.
What does noindex, follow mean?
Keep this page out of the index but still follow the links on it. It is the right setting for a paginated archive or a thin filter page.
Where does the canonical go?
In the head of the page it describes, pointing at itself. The Canonical Tag Generator cleans the address up first.
Related tools
- Open Graph Generator — Social card tags for Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack and X
- Canonical Tag Generator — A clean canonical URL, with hreflang alternates
- Schema Markup Generator — JSON-LD for articles, products, FAQs and businesses
- Keyword Density Checker — Which words and phrases a page actually repeats
- SERP Preview — Your page as a search result, measured in pixels
- robots.txt Generator — Crawl rules, with the traps called out
More SEO & Meta tools
- SERP Preview — Your page as a search result, measured in pixels
- Open Graph Generator — Social card tags for Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack and X
- Canonical Tag Generator — A clean canonical URL, with hreflang alternates
- robots.txt Generator — Crawl rules, with the traps called out
- Sitemap Generator — An XML sitemap from a list of addresses
- Keyword Density Checker — Which words and phrases a page actually repeats
- Schema Markup Generator — JSON-LD for articles, products, FAQs and businesses
- Website Speed Test — Where a page's time goes and what it weighs
- SEO Analyzer — Audit a live page's on-page SEO — indexability, title, headings, canonical, structured data and more — with a score
- robots.txt Tester — Test whether URLs are allowed or blocked for Googlebot and other crawlers, and which rule decides
- Broken Link Checker — Dead links, redirects and missing images on a page