# Meta Tag Generator Guide

Generate HTML meta tags for a page.

- Tool: https://ilham.dev/tools/meta-tag-generator/
- Guide URL: https://ilham.dev/guides/meta-tag-generator/
- Tool guides index: https://ilham.dev/guides/tools/
- Broader guide: Web Metadata (https://ilham.dev/guides/web-metadata/)

## What it does

Generate the meta tags a page needs for search and for social sharing: title, description, canonical, Open Graph and Twitter card tags, with a preview of how the result will look.

## Use the tool

Open https://ilham.dev/tools/meta-tag-generator/, add the input the tool asks for, run it, and check the output before using it elsewhere.

## Input and output

- Input: text.
- Output: text.
- Category: Web.

## Privacy and processing
Processing happens locally in your browser. This tool does not upload the input to ilham.dev.

## Questions

### How long should a meta description be?

Around 150–160 characters. Search engines truncate past that, and they will sometimes replace your description with text lifted from the page.

### Do Open Graph tags affect ranking?

Not directly. They affect how a shared link looks, which affects whether people click it — and clicks are a signal.