Meta Tag Generator

Fill in the details and get the complete <head> block: the SEO basics, the canonical and robots directives, and the Open Graph and Twitter Card tags that decide how your link looks when someone shares it.

Title and description lengths are checked as they are generated, so you find out here rather than from a truncated result in Google.

How it works

Only a handful of meta tags still matter. The title is the single strongest on-page signal and the headline of your search result. Google truncates around 580 pixels, which is roughly 60 characters; aim to get the important words in first, because a truncated tail is a wasted tail. The meta description is not a ranking factor at all, but it is the sales copy under the headline and it drives click-through. Around 155–160 characters survives on desktop.

The canonical tag tells search engines which URL is the real one when the same content is reachable several ways — with and without www, with tracking parameters, over http and https. Without it, those variants compete with each other and split whatever authority the page has. Always make it absolute, and make sure it points at a URL that actually returns 200.

Open Graph tags control the preview card on Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Slack and most messaging apps. The image is the part that matters most: use 1200×630, host it on the same domain over HTTPS, and give the URL absolutely rather than relatively — a relative og:image is the most common reason a share preview comes out blank. Twitter Card tags are a parallel set for X; where a Twitter tag is missing, it falls back to the Open Graph equivalent, so the only ones genuinely worth adding are twitter:card and, if you have them, the account handles.

Two tags to leave out. meta keywords has been ignored by Google since 2009 and does nothing but advertise your keyword list to competitors. And do not add robots with index, follow "to be safe" — indexing is the default, so the tag says nothing. The robots meta tag is worth writing only when you want noindex, nofollow, or a directive such as max-snippet.

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