Google snippet preview & meta tag generator
See exactly how your page will look in Google before you publish it, and copy
the tags to make it so. Type a title and description; the preview updates as you
type, cuts off where Google cuts off, and the tags below are ready to paste into
your page's <head>. No account, no email, nothing stored.
Copy-paste tags
These are the tags that decide what a search engine and a social network show.
Paste them between <head> and </head> on the page.
What the limits actually are
Google does not cut titles and descriptions by character count; it cuts them by pixel width, because a wide letter takes more room than a narrow one. As a rough guide a title fits in about 60 characters and a description in about 160, but "rough guide" is the honest phrase — the preview above measures the real width and marks where Google would truncate, so you can see the difference between a title that just fits and one that does not.
The title is a ranking signal and the description is not — Google says so plainly. The description's job is to earn the click once you are already shown. A page can rank without one, but a well-written one is the difference between being listed and being chosen, which is exactly the gap this tool is for.
Why the preview matters
Most pages that get shown and never clicked have the same problem: a title written for a template rather than a person, and a description that repeats it. The fix is free and takes five minutes — and you cannot judge it from the source code. You have to see it the way a searcher does.