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Meta Robots Tag Generator

Generate meta robots tags and X-Robots-Tag header values for indexing, following links, snippets, images, archives, translations, and search preview controls.

Page Indexing Settings

Use noindex carefully. If a public page should appear in search, avoid adding noindex accidentally.

Output

Generated meta robots output will appear here.
Robots tag generation happens directly in your browser. Your settings are not uploaded to a server.

Creating Meta Robots Tags for Search Indexing

A meta robots tag tells search engines how a page should be crawled, indexed, and shown in search results. It can allow indexing, block indexing, control link following, disable snippets, prevent image indexing, or remove cached copies.

This Meta Robots Tag Generator creates clean robots meta tags and X-Robots-Tag header values for common SEO situations, including duplicate pages, private pages, staging pages, temporary content, and file responses.

Generating a Robots Meta Tag

  1. Choose the page use case or set indexing rules manually.
  2. Select index/noindex and follow/nofollow behavior.
  3. Add snippet, image, archive, translation, or expiry directives if needed.
  4. Choose meta tag, X-Robots-Tag header, or framework output.
  5. Copy the result into your page, server, CDN, or app code.

Common Meta Robots Use Cases

  • Allowing normal public pages to be indexed and followed.
  • Blocking duplicate, thin, internal, or temporary pages from search.
  • Adding noindex to staging pages before launch.
  • Generating X-Robots-Tag values for PDFs and file responses.
  • Controlling snippets, image previews, and cached copies.
  • Creating Next.js metadata robots settings.

Example Meta Robots Tag

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow, noarchive">

Meta Robots vs robots.txt

robots.txt controls crawling at the site or path level. A meta robots tag controls indexing and search display behavior for a specific HTML page. X-Robots-Tag does a similar job through HTTP headers and is useful for PDFs, images, and other non-HTML files.

Be careful not to block crawling with robots.txt if search engines need to see a noindex tag on the page. For many SEO workflows, noindex should be visible to crawlers.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does a meta robots tag do?

It tells search engines whether a page should be indexed, whether links should be followed, and how the page may appear in search.

What is the difference between noindex and nofollow?

noindex asks search engines not to show the page in search results. nofollow asks them not to follow links on the page.

When should I use X-Robots-Tag?

Use X-Robots-Tag when you need robots directives in HTTP headers, especially for PDFs, images, downloads, and non-HTML files.

Should every page have index, follow?

Not always. Normal public pages can usually use index, follow or no robots tag at all. Duplicate, private, thin, and staging pages may need noindex.

Is anything uploaded when I generate the tag?

No. The robots tag is generated directly in your browser.