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Meta Robots Tag Generator

Choose the directives you need and get both a <meta name="robots"> tag for your HTML and an X-Robots-Tag header line for your server, with every directive explained. Contradictory choices are prevented, and dates must be in the future.

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1. Directives

Updates as you choose
Indexing
Links
Snippets, cache and images

2. Output

Meta tag + HTTP header
Choose at least one directive.

What each directive asks for

Directives are requests. Support varies between search engines, and no directive can force a page into or out of search results.

About this tool

About Meta Robots Tag Generator

Meta Robots Tag Generator builds a <meta name="robots"> tag and the matching X-Robots-Tag HTTP header line from the directives you choose: index or noindex, follow or nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet, noimageindex, max-snippet, max-image-preview and unavailable_after, optionally addressed to a single crawler.

Robots directives control how pages appear in search results, and a typo or contradictory pair can have unintended effects. Generating them from clear choices, with each one explained, avoids mistakes.

How to use

Step by step

  1. Choose indexing and link-following options, or leave them unspecified.
  2. Tick any snippet, cache and image directives you need.
  3. Set max-snippet, max-image-preview or unavailable_after if required.
  4. Optionally enter a crawler name such as googlebot.
  5. Copy or download the meta tag and header line.
Key features

What it offers

  • Meta tag and X-Robots-Tag header output together
  • Contradictory pairs prevented by single-choice controls
  • nosnippet and max-snippet conflict detection
  • unavailable_after in ISO 8601, with past dates rejected
  • Optional crawler-specific tags
  • Plain-language explanation of every directive
Best practices

Tips for best results

  • Do not block a page in robots.txt if you need search engines to see its noindex.
  • Use X-Robots-Tag for PDFs, images and other non-HTML files.
  • Only add directives you need; index and follow are the defaults.
  • Check the live page after deploying the tag.
Benefits

Why people use it

Both formats

HTML tag and HTTP header.

Error-proof

Conflicts are prevented.

Explained

Every directive in plain words.

Private

Built in your browser.

FAQ

Common questions

The meta tag goes in a page’s HTML <head>. The X-Robots-Tag is an HTTP response header with the same directives; it also works for files that have no HTML, such as PDFs and images. Use whichever your setup allows — you do not need both.
They contradict each other, so each pair is a single choice: index or noindex, follow or nofollow, or leave it unspecified to use the default. nosnippet and max-snippet are also mutually exclusive.
No directive can force a result. noindex is a request that major search engines generally honour once they recrawl the page, and the page must not be blocked by robots.txt or they cannot see the request.
Turn it on and pick a date and time, which is treated as UTC. The tool outputs it in ISO 8601 format, such as unavailable_after: 2027-06-30T18:00:00Z. Past dates are rejected.
It addresses the directives to one crawler, such as googlebot, instead of all crawlers. The meta tag becomes <meta name="googlebot" …> and the header becomes X-Robots-Tag: googlebot: …. Other crawlers ignore it.
No. Index and follow are the defaults, so if you select nothing, no tag is needed. The tool only outputs a tag when at least one directive is chosen.
No. The tag is built in your browser, and nothing is stored or sent.

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