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Meta Tag Generator

Write the title, description, robots, canonical and share tags a page needs, and copy them as one block.

No sign-up. We read the page to fill this in. Nothing is stored.

For example:

The one URL you want indexed for this content.
1200 × 630 pixels works on every major platform.

Paste into your <head>

4 tags
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

<meta property="og:type" content="website">
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">

Values are escaped, so quotes and ampersands in your title will not break the tag. Charset and viewport are included because every page needs them.

Check the result on the live page with the Meta Tag Checker once it ships.

In the output

What you get

  • A complete, paste-ready <head> block
  • Live length checks on title and description
  • Open Graph and Twitter Card tags included
  • Robots and canonical set correctly
  • A title and meta description with live character counts against the range results usually show in full.
  • A robots tag only when you choose noindex or nofollow, since index and follow are the default and need no tag.
  • A canonical link, and Open Graph and Twitter Card tags built from the same title, description and image.
  • Every value escaped, so quotes, ampersands and angle brackets cannot break the markup.
Three steps

How to use the Meta Tag Generator

1

Start from a URL, or type

We read the page’s current title, description, canonical and share image, so you edit rather than start from nothing.

2

Tune the lengths

Keep the title within about 60 characters and the description within about 160, with the important words first.

3

Paste the block into the head

Replace the old tags rather than adding a second set. Duplicate titles and canonicals confuse search engines.

Why it matters

Why write meta tags deliberately

They write your search result.

The title becomes the headline in results and the description often becomes the snippet. Left empty, Google writes both for you.

Share cards come from the same tags.

LinkedIn, Facebook, Slack and X read Open Graph and Twitter Card tags. Without them, each platform guesses.

One wrong robots value hides the page.

A noindex copied from a staging template removes a page from search. Setting robots explicitly makes the choice visible.

Escaping matters.

A quote or ampersand in a title can break an unescaped tag and everything after it in the head.

After you run it

What to do with the result

Meta tags are small and high-leverage: they decide what a searcher reads in results and what a share card shows in a feed. Writing them once for a page is easy. Keeping them right as templates change is the harder part, which is why Site Audit checks titles, descriptions and share tags on every page it crawls.

Site Audit
Related reading
AI Overviews Killed Your CTR. Here’s the New Playbook.

Frequently asked questions

At minimum a charset, a viewport, a title and a meta description. Add a canonical link to say which URL is the real one, and Open Graph tags so links shared on social platforms show a proper card. Meta keywords is ignored by Google and not worth adding.

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See where you actually stand.

A free tool checks one thing once. Veritas watches all of it, continuously, across every engine that decides whether you get cited.

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