Meta & Tags · Free tool
Meta Tag Analyzer
Paste a URL and this tool fetches the page and reports every meta tag in the head section: title length, description length, Open Graph properties, Twitter Card markup, canonical URL, robots directives, and hreflang tags. Useful for auditing your own pages or checking competitor implementations.
SEO, GEO & AEO: why this checklist matters
Who should use this
SEOs conducting technical audits, developers checking site launches, and content teams verifying new page configurations.
Rankings, AI answers, and citations
Canonical tags directly affect how search engines consolidate ranking signals. Misconfigured canonicals can cause pages to lose credit for links and content. For AI citation, proper Open Graph and structured metadata help content aggregation systems correctly identify and attribute your content.
What to verify before you ship
- Confirm canonical URL is set on every page and points to the correct version
- Check that title and description are within character limits and not duplicated from another page
- Verify Open Graph tags are present for any page shared on social media
- Robots meta tag should not accidentally block important pages from indexing
What you can expect next
Use this workflow on drafts and live URLs. For continuous monitoring across Google and AI surfaces, pair results with Linkstonic SEO audit, AI tracking, and TrueTrace.
Frequently asked questions
Written for search snippets, People Also Ask-style surfaces, and answer engines that quote short Q&A units.
What is a canonical tag?
A canonical tag tells search engines which URL is the preferred version of a page. When multiple URLs serve similar content (http vs https, www vs non-www, parameterized URLs), the canonical points engines to the one they should index and rank.
What does robots noindex do?
It tells search engines not to include the page in their index. Pages with noindex won't appear in search results. Check that critical pages don't have noindex set by mistake, especially after site migrations.
Why do I need Open Graph tags?
Open Graph tags control how your page looks when shared on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social platforms. Without them, platforms generate their own preview, often with poor image selection and truncated text.
What's the difference between a robots meta tag and robots.txt?
Robots.txt controls crawler access at the server level. The robots meta tag controls indexing at the page level. A page can be crawled but not indexed, and vice versa. Both need to be correct for your indexing to work as intended.