Meta tag generator and analyzer.
Fill in a few fields to get every meta tag a page needs: title, description, canonical, robots, Open Graph for Facebook, LinkedIn and WhatsApp previews, and Twitter cards. Or paste a page's HTML source and see which tags are missing or too long.
- Free, no sign-up
- Runs in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to us.
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Your meta tags
Paste this inside the <head> of your page. In WordPress, use an SEO plugin's fields instead.
Page HTML
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Paste a page's source and press Analyze.
How to use the Meta Tag Generator & Analyzer
- Choose "Generate tags" to write new tags, or "Analyze a page" to check existing ones.
- To generate: fill in the title, description and page URL, then the social sharing fields. The code updates as you type.
- To analyze: open the page in your browser, press Ctrl+U (or Cmd+Option+U on a Mac) to view the source, copy it all and paste it in.
- Copy the generated code into your page's <head>, or fix the issues the analyzer lists.
The meta tags that still matter
Most meta tags from the early web are now ignored. The meta keywords tag, for example, has not been used by Google for ranking for well over a decade. The ones worth getting right today are few, and each has a clear job:
- Title: the clickable headline in search results, and the strongest on-page signal of what the page is about.
- Meta description: your advert text in the results. Not a ranking factor, but it affects clicks.
- Canonical: tells search engines which URL is the main version when the same content is reachable at several addresses.
- Robots: lets you keep a page out of search results (noindex) or stop links being followed (nofollow).
- Viewport: makes the page display properly on phones, which Google indexes first.
- Open Graph and Twitter tags: control the title, text and image shown when the page is shared on social media or WhatsApp.
Open Graph: why your links look bad when shared
When someone shares your page on Facebook, LinkedIn or WhatsApp, the platform reads the og:title, og:description and og:image tags to build the preview card. Without them it guesses, often picking a logo, a random image or no image at all. A clear 1200 x 630 pixel image and a short, punchy title make shared links far more likely to be clicked.
Common mistakes the analyzer catches
- A noindex tag left on after the site was launched from a staging copy. This one quietly removes pages from Google.
- A canonical pointing to the wrong page, or to the http version of an https site.
- Missing or duplicate titles and descriptions.
- Titles too long to show in full.
- No og:image, so shares appear without a picture.
- More than one H1, or none at all.
Checking a whole site, not one page
This tool checks one page at a time. A real site has dozens or thousands of pages, and the problems are usually patterns: a template that outputs the same title everywhere, or a whole section set to noindex. Finding those needs a crawl, which is the first step of every SEO audit we run.
About the Meta Tag Generator & Analyzer.
Which meta tags are most important for SEO?
The title tag first, then the meta description, canonical and robots tags. The viewport tag matters for mobile, and Open Graph tags control how links look when shared.
Does Google still use the meta keywords tag?
No. Google has ignored the meta keywords tag for ranking for many years, so this tool does not generate one.
Can the analyzer check a URL directly?
Not this one: it works on pasted HTML so that nothing leaves your browser. Open the page, view its source with Ctrl+U, and paste the code in.
What size should an Open Graph image be?
1200 x 630 pixels works on Facebook, LinkedIn, X and WhatsApp. Keep important text away from the edges, as some platforms crop it.
Where do I put the meta tags?
Inside the <head> section of the page. In WordPress, an SEO plugin such as Yoast or Rank Math adds them for you from the fields in the page editor.
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