Robots Meta Tag Generator
Free robots meta tag generator. Build a valid robots meta tag with noindex, nofollow, max-snippet and other directives, with a plain-English explanation and copy.
Indexing
Link following
Extra directives
Preview limits
Bot targeting
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Free Robots Meta Tag Generator
This free robots meta generator builds a valid <meta name="robots"> tag from
simple toggles. Turn indexing on or off, control whether links are followed, and add advanced directives like
noarchive, nosnippet, max-snippet and
max-image-preview — then copy the ready tag into your page’s <head>.
It’s free, instant and runs entirely in your browser.
How to use the robots meta generator
- Pick your indexing rule — index to allow the page in search, or noindex to hide it.
- Choose link following — follow or nofollow for the links on the page.
- Add extra directives with the checkboxes and set any preview limits or an expiry date if you need them.
- Tick googlebot-specific tag if you want a second tag aimed only at Google.
- Read the plain-English summary, then click Copy meta tag and paste it inside your
<head>.
What does the robots meta tag do?
The robots meta tag is a small instruction in your page’s HTML <head> that tells search
engines how to treat that specific page. The two most important values are noindex and
nofollow. noindex asks search engines to keep the page out of their results,
while nofollow tells them not to follow or pass ranking signals through the links on the page.
They are independent, so you can mix them — for example noindex, follow hides a page but still
lets the crawler discover the pages it links to.
The robots meta tag is different from robots.txt. A robots.txt file blocks crawling
of whole sections of a site, but a blocked page can still get indexed if other sites link to it. To reliably keep a
page out of search you use a noindex meta tag and let the crawler reach the page — if you
block it in robots.txt the crawler may never see the noindex instruction.
The newer directives give finer control over how a result looks. max-snippet:N limits the
description text to N characters (-1 means no limit, 0 means no snippet at all), and
max-image-preview:(none|standard|large) controls the size of any image thumbnail. There is also
max-video-preview:N for video previews and unavailable_after to drop a page from
results on a set date. This generator only ever outputs non-contradictory combinations, so you will never get
index and noindex in the same tag.