Meta Tag Generator
Fill in your page details and copy SEO-ready meta tags, with live length checks as you type.
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Page details
Good length — it should show in full on most screens.
Good length for a search snippet.
Absolute https URL — good.
Indexing & technical tags
Search engines may…
“index, follow” is the default, so no robots tag is needed.
Your <head> tags
<!-- Language: put this on your <html> tag → <html lang="en"> -->
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Handmade Leather Wallets for Men & Women | Oak & Hide</title>
<meta name="description" content="Slim, hand-stitched leather wallets made from full-grain leather. Free shipping on orders over $50 and a 2-year guarantee on every wallet.">
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/wallets/">Paste these inside the <head> of your page, replacing any existing title, description, robots or canonical tags.
Search result preview
example.com
https://www.example.com/wallets/
Handmade Leather Wallets for Men & Women | Oak & Hide
Slim, hand-stitched leather wallets made from full-grain leather. Free shipping on orders over $50 and a 2-year guarantee on every wallet.
A rough preview. For pixel-exact truncation on desktop and mobile, use the SERP preview tool. Google may also rewrite titles and snippets to match a search.
How to write meta tags that earn the click
Meta tags live in the <head> of a page. Visitors never see most of them, but search engines and browsers read them to decide what to show. The two that matter most for clicks are the title tag (the blue headline in Google) and the meta description (the grey text under it). The robots tag and canonical link control whether and under which URL the page is indexed.
Google trims titles by pixel width, not by a fixed number of characters — wide letters like “W” use more space than “i”. This tool measures the title in 20 px Arial, the font Google uses on desktop. For example, “Handmade Leather Wallets for Men & Women | Oak & Hide” is 53 characters and about 527 px, comfortably inside the ~580 px guide, so it should show in full. Treat these numbers as guidance, not hard rules: a slightly longer title that reads well is better than a cramped one.
What should a meta description say?
Summarise what the visitor gets on the page, in plain words, with the main detail first: the product, the answer, the price or the key benefit. Write a unique description for every important page. Google doesn’t use the description as a ranking factor and often rewrites it, but a clear, specific one is shown more often and improves click-through.
When to use noindex and nofollow
Use noindex on pages that shouldn’t appear in search: thank-you pages, internal search results, thin tag archives or staging copies. Use nofollow only when you don’t vouch for any link on the page; for individual links, add rel="nofollow", rel="sponsored" or rel="ugc" to the link instead.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Google still use the meta keywords tag?
- No. Google has ignored the meta keywords tag for ranking for many years, so this generator leaves it out. Put your keywords in the title, headings and body text instead.
- How many characters should a title tag be?
- Around 50–60 characters (roughly 580–600 px) usually displays in full on desktop. Put the main keyword near the start so it survives if the end is cut.
- Should every page have a canonical tag?
- It is a good habit. A self-referencing canonical on each page tells search engines which exact URL to index when the same page can be reached with tracking parameters, with or without www, or with a trailing slash.
- Where does the lang attribute go?
- On the <html> element, not in a meta tag — for example <html lang="en-IN">. It helps browsers, screen readers and translation tools. For pages in several languages, use hreflang links as well.