Meta tag generator

Fill in your page details and get complete HTML meta tags for SEO, Open Graph, and Twitter Cards, ready to paste.

Page title (50-60 chars)

Canonical URL

Meta description (120-160 chars)

OG image URL

Author

Robots

Twitter card type

Why meta tags matter for SEO and social sharing

Meta tags are HTML elements placed inside your page's <head> that provide metadata about the page to search engines and social platforms. While most meta tags are invisible to visitors, they have a significant impact on how your page appears in Google search results, Facebook shares, Twitter/X posts, LinkedIn links, and Slack link previews.

The title tag is the most important on-page SEO element after your actual content. It appears as the clickable blue link in Google results and should be 50-60 characters long, long enough to be descriptive, short enough not to be truncated. The meta description does not directly influence rankings but significantly affects click-through rate (CTR), a well-written description acts as a text advertisement for your page and should be 120-160 characters.

Open Graph tags (og:title, og:description, og:image) control how your page appears when shared on Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and other platforms. Without OG tags, these platforms guess at a title and may choose an irrelevant thumbnail image. Twitter Card tags do the same for X (Twitter). The og:image should be at least 1200×630 pixels for full-quality large image previews.

Frequently asked questions

Do keywords in meta descriptions improve rankings?

Google confirmed in 2009 that it does not use the meta description for ranking. However, Google bolds keywords in descriptions that match a user's query, which increases CTR, so relevant keywords still help indirectly.

What size should my OG image be?

1200×630 pixels (1.91:1 ratio) for landscape summary_large_image cards. Facebook and LinkedIn both use this ratio. Minimum recommended size is 600×315.

Should every page have a unique meta description?

Yes. Duplicate meta descriptions across pages are a technical SEO issue flagged in Google Search Console. Each page should have a description unique to its specific content.