Meta Robots Tag Generator
Build a per-page meta robots tag to control indexing and link-following.
About this tool
Build a meta robots tag for a specific page, controlling whether search engines index it and follow its links — separate from a site-wide robots.txt file, which works at the URL-pattern level instead of the individual page level.
Key Features
- Covers index/noindex and follow/nofollow
- Optional noarchive, nosnippet, and noimageindex directives
- Generates ready-to-paste HTML
- Clear plain-language labels for each option
How to Use
- Choose indexing and link-following behavior.
- Check any additional directives you need.
- Click Generate.
- Paste the tag into the page's .
Benefits
- Keep a specific page out of search results without blocking crawling entirely
- Prevent search engines from showing a cached copy or preview of sensitive content
- Control indexing per-page with more precision than robots.txt alone
Frequently Asked Questions
robots.txt tells crawlers which URL patterns they should not even request, at the whole-site level, before a page is fetched. A meta robots tag sits inside a specific page's own HTML and tells search engines what to do once they have already fetched that page — whether to index it, whether to follow its links, and so on. A page blocked by robots.txt is never crawled, so its meta robots tag is never seen and has no effect.
Use noindex in a meta robots tag, not robots.txt. Blocking a page in robots.txt only stops crawling — a page that is already indexed and has inbound links can still appear in search results with no description, because the crawler is prevented from ever fetching the noindex tag that would tell it to remove the listing. Allow crawling and use noindex instead.
nofollow tells search engines not to pass ranking credit through the links on this specific page, and historically signaled crawlers not to follow those links at all (modern crawlers may still follow them as a hint rather than a strict block). It affects only the links on the page carrying the tag, not how other pages link to this one.