Meta Robots Tag Generator
SEO ToolsNewGenerate noindex, follow, snippet, and preview meta robots tags.
Quick answer
Use this meta robots tag generator to build index, follow, noarchive, snippet, image preview, and video preview directives. Choose options, review warnings, then copy the generated robots or googlebot meta tags.
What is Meta Robots Tag Generator?
Build meta robots and optional googlebot tags for index, follow, archive, snippet, image preview, and video preview directives.
How do you use Meta Robots Tag Generator?
- 1Choose whether search engines should index the page and follow links.
- 2Set archive, image, snippet, and video preview directives.
- 3Add a googlebot-specific tag only if you need Google-only behavior.
- 4Copy the generated meta tag into the page head.
What are examples of Meta Robots Tag Generator?
Noindex but follow links
- Input
- noindex + follow
- Output
- <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow, archive, imageindex, snippet, max-snippet:160, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:30">
- Note
- Useful for pages that should not appear in search results but can still expose links for discovery.
Limitations and privacy
Robots meta tags apply after a page is crawled. Use robots.txt separately if you need to manage crawl access. Runs in your browser. No page URL or content is required.
Frequently Asked Questions
A meta robots tag is an HTML meta tag that gives crawlers page-level indexing, following, snippet, archive, and preview instructions.
robots.txt controls crawler access before fetching a page. Meta robots controls indexing and snippets after a crawler can access the page.
Use noindex when crawlers can access the page and see the directive. Blocking a page in robots.txt can prevent crawlers from seeing a noindex tag.
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