Meta Robots Tag Generator
Generate the robots meta tag with index, follow, noarchive, nosnippet, and noimageindex directives. Free and instant.
Independently verified for accuracy
Calculator by Toolsloft ↗Build the robots meta tag that tells search engines whether to index a page and follow its links. Toggle the directives you need and copy the tag into your page head.
How this is calculated
It assembles a standard robots meta tag from the directives documented by Google. The index or noindex and follow or nofollow values always appear so your intent is explicit, and optional directives like noarchive, nosnippet, and noimageindex are added only when you enable them.
How to use
- Choose whether the page should be indexed and whether its links should be followed.
- Switch on any extra directives such as noarchive or nosnippet.
- Copy the meta tag into the head of your page.
Examples
- Hide a page:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> - Index but no cache or snippet:
index, follow, noarchive, nosnippet
FAQ
- What is the difference between noindex and nofollow?
- Noindex keeps the page out of search results, while nofollow tells search engines not to pass link signals through the links on the page. They are independent, so you can use either, both, or neither.
- Where does the robots meta tag go?
- Place it inside the head section of the page HTML. It only controls that single page; to manage crawling across a whole site you also use a robots.txt file.