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February 19, 2026

# Meta Tag Generator: Common Mistakes and Best Practices

Most problems with meta Tag Generator aren't caused by not knowing what to do — they're caused by small, easy-to-miss mistakes that compound quietly over time. Here are the ones that come up most often.

Mistake 1: Stuffing the title with every keyword variant ('Shoes | Buy Shoes | Cheap Shoes Online') — it reads as spam to users and to Google.

Mistake 2: Leaving the meta description blank and letting Google auto-generate one from body text, which is often an awkward mid-sentence fragment.

Mistake 3: Duplicating the H1 exactly as the title tag — a small variation usually serves search intent and on-page reading better than an identical copy.

The fix for most of these isn't more effort, it's a regular check. A few habits that prevent them from creeping back in:
- Write a unique meta description for every page — duplicate descriptions across a category of pages is one of the most common technical SEO issues on mid-size sites.
- Treat the description as ad copy, not a summary — its only job is to earn the click, the ranking is already decided.

Worth reading alongside this: our guide to ecommerce keyword research, which covers the adjacent side of the same part of a technical SEO audit.

Meta Tag Generator catches most of this automatically, which is the easiest way to stop these mistakes from shipping in the first place.

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