Meta Tag Generator

What are HTML meta tags?

Meta tags are elements in a page's <head> that describe the page to browsers and search engines rather than to visitors. The title and meta description don't just document the page — Google typically renders them directly as your search result's blue link and snippet text, so they're the first thing a searcher decides to click on or skip. The meta robots tag tells crawlers whether to index the page and whether to follow its links at all, which matters far more for SEO than keywords or author ever have.

This generator produces the charset, viewport, title, description, keywords, author, and robots tags together, with live character counters against Google's practical display limits — around 60 characters for titles and 160 for descriptions before truncation in the SERP.

When to use it

Use it when shipping any new page, or auditing an existing one whose title or description is missing, truncated, or duplicated across pages. It's especially useful for teams without a CMS-level SEO plugin, static sites, and one-off landing pages where meta tags get written by hand. If you're building a page meant to be excluded from search — a staging page, a thank-you page, an internal tool — set robots to noindex, follow so Google drops it from the index while still crawling its outbound links.

The keywords meta tag has no effect on Google ranking (confirmed by Google since 2009) and is included here only for the handful of secondary engines and internal tools that still read it — don't spend time optimizing it.

Example

For a blog post, set the title to "10 Postgres Indexing Mistakes That Slow Down Production Queries" (kept under 60 characters), the description to "A field guide to the indexing mistakes we see most often in Postgres code review, and how to fix each one." (under 160 characters), author to your byline, and robots to index, follow. The output panel assembles the full tag block — charset, viewport, title, meta description, meta author, and meta robots — ready to paste into the page's <head>.