How to use the Meta Tag Placement
What it does
The Meta Tag Placement tool checks that a page includes the essential meta tags and that they appear correctly inside the <head> section. It confirms the presence and position of tags like the charset, viewport, title, meta description, canonical, and robots directives, catching cases where important tags are missing, duplicated, or placed where browsers and crawlers may ignore them.
How to use it
- Open Meta Tag Placement from the Tools menu.
- Enter the URL of the page you want to inspect.
- Click Check Placement.
- Review the checklist of expected tags and their status.
Reading the results
The tool returns a checklist showing which key tags are present, missing, or misplaced. It highlights problems such as a charset declared too late, a missing viewport tag (which hurts mobile rendering), a duplicate canonical, or a robots tag that unintentionally blocks indexing. Each item includes a short note on why placement matters. Fix missing or misplaced tags in your template so the correction applies site-wide, then re-check a sample page.
Credits
The Meta Tag Placement tool is free and costs 0 credits. Tip: because meta tags usually come from a shared template, fixing one page's structure often resolves the same issue across your entire site.
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