What's the difference between this and robots.txt?

Robots.txt controls crawling at the site/path level before a crawler even requests the page; a meta robots tag controls indexing and link-following at the individual page level, and only takes effect once the page is actually crawled.

What does "noindex, follow" actually do?

It tells search engines not to include this specific page in search results, but to still follow and consider the links found on it.

Can a page's meta robots tag conflict with its robots.txt rules?

If robots.txt blocks crawling entirely, the crawler never sees the meta robots tag at all, so a noindex meta tag alone doesn't work if robots.txt also blocks the page.

Does Meta Robots Tag Generator upload my files to a server?

No. Meta Robots Tag Generator runs entirely in your browser using on-device processing, your files never leave your device.

Meta Robots Tag Generator

Generate a page-level meta robots tag from index/follow options.

Runs in your browser

About this tool

A page-level meta robots tag gives more granular control than robots.txt alone — index this page but don't follow its links, or the reverse — and the directive syntax (index/noindex, follow/nofollow, and less common directives) is easy to misremember or type incorrectly. This tool generates a correctly formatted meta robots tag from the index/follow options you choose, avoiding a typo in the directive syntax that could have the opposite effect of what you intended.

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