SEO tools that generate the tag, not the opinion
Meta tags, Open Graph, canonicals, robots files, sitemaps, schema markup, slugs and UTM links. Mechanical work with correct answers, which is the part worth automating.
Every SEO tool
Nine generators and checkers for on page technical work.
The character budgets that actually get enforced
Search engines and social platforms truncate rather than reject. Exceed a limit and your carefully written ending simply disappears behind an ellipsis.
Which tags earn their place in your head
Plenty of meta tags exist. Only a handful change anything in 2026.
| Tag | Does it matter | Why |
|---|---|---|
| title | Yes, a lot | Still one of the strongest on page signals, and the thing people click. |
| meta description | Indirectly | Not a ranking factor since 2009, but it drives click through rate, which is. |
| canonical | Yes | Tells search engines which URL is authoritative when the same content sits at several addresses. |
| robots | Yes | Controls indexing and snippet behaviour per page. A stray noindex left on after a staging launch is a classic disaster. |
| Open Graph | Yes, for sharing | Controls how the link looks on Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Slack and Discord. |
| JSON-LD schema | Yes | Enables rich results such as FAQ, recipe, product and breadcrumb. Google’s preferred format over microdata. |
| meta keywords | No | Ignored by Google since 2009. Filling it in achieves nothing except telling competitors your target terms. |
| meta author, revisit-after | No | Not used by any major engine. Legacy from the 1990s. |
Google publishes what it supports in the special tags documentation, and the full structured data type list lives at Schema.org. The sitemaps protocol is short and worth reading once, particularly the part about the 50,000 URL and 50MB limits per file.
Seven things to check the day a page goes live
In rough order of how much damage getting them wrong causes.
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Every category on ConvertNow, free and growing.
Search, without the guesswork
What actually moves rankings and what is folklore.
SEO tools questions worth a straight answer
Including the one about FAQ rich results, which has changed.
Will FAQ schema still get me a rich result in Google?
Do meta keywords still matter?
How long should a title tag be?
Does this tool crawl my website?
What is the difference between a 301 and a 302 redirect?
Do I actually need a sitemap?
Should I block a page in robots.txt to get it out of Google?
Which schema types are worth adding?
No crawling, no accounts
These are generators and validators rather than a rank tracker, which is why they need nothing from you.