Meta Tag Generator
Generate <head> meta tags for SEO: title, description, keywords, viewport, charset, robots, canonical. With 60/160 char counters for title and description.
<meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
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What is the Meta Tag Generator?
A meta tag generator builds the standard <meta> and supporting tags that go in the <head> of an HTML page. Search engines and browsers read these tags to understand the page: what to show in search results (title, description), how to render on mobile (viewport), what character encoding to use (charset), whether to index the page (robots), and which URL is canonical.
How to use the Meta Tag Generator
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Fill in the basics
Title (60-char counter, the search-result headline), description (160-char counter, the snippet under the headline), and optional keywords. Counter turns red when you go over.
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Add author and canonical
Author is rarely indexed but useful for credit. Canonical URL prevents duplicate-content penalties when the same page is reachable from multiple URLs.
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Pick robots and toggles
Default is index, follow. Switch to noindex for thank-you pages, login forms, or anything you want kept out of search. Charset and viewport are on by default; turn them off only if you handle them elsewhere.
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Copy into your <head>
Hit Copy and paste the block inside the <head> of your HTML. The output is plain HTML, no framework dependencies.
Frequently Asked Questions
What meta tags should every page have?
Five baseline tags: <meta charset="UTF-8">, <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">, <title> (60 char target), <meta name="description"> (155 char target), and <link rel="canonical">. Without these, search results look broken on mobile or get truncated. Everything else is optional or context-specific.
Do meta keywords still matter for SEO?
Google has ignored the <meta name="keywords"> tag since 2009 (officially confirmed by Matt Cutts). Bing has said the same. Yandex still reads it, and a few smaller search engines do too. The cost of including it is zero, but don't expect ranking benefit from any major search engine.
What does the robots meta tag do?
Tells search engines what to do with the page. index (allow it in results) vs. noindex (keep it out), and follow (use links on the page for crawl discovery) vs. nofollow (don't). Default is index, follow. Most pages want the default; use noindex for staging, drafts, internal-only pages, and any URL you don't want users finding through search.