The free Meta Tag Generator creates the SEO meta tags for your web pages. Enter details like your page title, meta description, and keywords, and the tool produces correctly formatted meta tag code you can copy and paste into the head section of your page. It is free, needs no coding knowledge, and gives you clean, ready-to-paste HTML.
Meta tags are small pieces of code in a page's head that tell search engines and social platforms about the page. They do not appear on the page itself, but they influence how your page is described in search results and when it is shared. Writing them by hand means remembering the exact tag names and format; the generator handles that and escapes any quotes or ampersands in your text so they cannot break the tag.
How to Generate Meta Tags
- Enter your page details. Add your title and meta description. Keywords, author, page URL and share image URL are optional, and the page URL and image only feed the social tags. The viewport and social tag boxes are ticked by default, and Content Type should stay on UTF-8, the only charset the HTML standard allows in this tag.
- Generate. The tool builds the meta tag code from your input.
- Copy the code. Copy the generated tags in one click.
- Paste into your page. Add the tags inside the head section of your HTML, before the closing head tag.
Which Meta Tags Matter
A few meta tags do most of the work. The title tag sets the clickable headline in search results and is one of the most important on-page SEO elements. The meta description is the short summary shown beneath it, and while it does not directly affect ranking, a good one improves click-through. Beyond those, tags like viewport help mobile rendering, and robots meta tags can control indexing of a specific page. The generator writes the description and robots tags in the standard format, plus the viewport tag unless you switch it off. It does not write the title element itself. It adds a meta tag named title instead, so keep your page's own title element in the head.
Generator or Analyzer?
This tool builds meta tags from the details you enter, which is what you want when you are setting up a new page. If instead you want to check the meta tags already on a live page, that is a different job: our Meta Tag Analyzer fetches a URL and shows you the tags it currently has, so you can review and improve them. Use the generator to create, and the analyzer to inspect.
When to Use a Meta Tag Generator
- Setting up a new page. Create the description, robots, viewport, and social tags before publishing.
- Standardizing tags. Produce consistent, correctly formatted meta tags across pages.
- Learning the format. See how meta tags are structured without memorizing the syntax.
- Adding social tags. Generate the Open Graph and Twitter Card tags that platforms read when they build a share preview.
Related SEO Tools
To check tags on an existing page, use the Meta Tag Analyzer. You can also generate Open Graph tags for social sharing, or a robots.txt file.
