Open Graph Checker

When was Open Graph created? Who created Open Graph?

Open graph is a concept created by Facebook and released in 2010. What it does is that it fosters other website integration with Facebook. It enables other websites to become rich “graph” objects with all the same functionality of other Facebook objects. The OG Meta tags allow website masters to control information passed from website to Facebook. These tags are placed in code on the website.

Seeing the success of social media tags on Facebook the other major web social media sites like, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, started recognising meta OG tags as well. For webmasters, learning how to make use of Facebook Graph Meta tags is combining this key with the secret of a empire. Nailing these tags can make a tremendous difference in click through rates and conversion. Websites are typically driven with generating traffic from social media sites. OG tags do not have any effect on the on-page SEO, but they do make a difference in the performance of the social media.

Open Graph Facebook Tags

There are three primary meta tags that Facebook picks up:

1. og:title
2. og:description
3. og:image

As you must be aware of the og:title defined the title of your content. When og:title is not defined at website code, Facebook will take the meta title tag. But this needs to be 60–90 characters long and eye-catching and appealing.

The og:description tag is quite similar to the meta description that you find in embedded HTML code on a website. This will appear underneath the link title within Facebook. It should be attractive to possible visitors, invigorating their interest in making a visit to the site.

OG tags You know the OG: even if you are not aware of them. The image will be shown as a thumbnail when the page of the website is shared. It can aid in conversion rate and ensure you utilize it. if you don’t then Facebook will show a banner ripped out of the page and trust me you don’t want that.

It is the basics and beyond these three open tags, there are others that you can throw into your website, such as; og:url and og:type. OG tags which are also advanced. They are; og:locale, og:site_name, og:audio or og:video and fb:app_id.

Facebook graph checker

Facebook has made it easier for webmasters to see how their website links look in Facebook. So if they do notice any problem they can change and correct the tags. Second, the Facebook caches the data so if any changes are done in a website’s meta og tags, then those changes will be reflected in the Facebook link.

Other Social Media Sites Tags

If you intend your website show on someother well known social media websites, you must use LinkedIn share URL parameters, Twitter card meta tags. Using these tags your website will be shown as an object on these sites too. Using the LinkedIn open graph debugger and Twitter meta og tags debugger, you can see that your tags for these two sites has all been setup correctly and title, image and description are coming up correctly. In case you have any issues you may read about how to configure the meta og tags for these very two sites.

Implementing Tags

You have to place the tags into your page’s HTML section. You may either do yourself or use plugins, and there are a lot of them. In case your website is built in WordPress you can go for WordPress SEO by Yoast. But there is a official Facebook plugin and others available. The popular plugins are;

• Joomla
• Drupal
• Magento
• Zen Cart
• osCommerce

It amazes me how many webmasters who seek more traffic do not use meta og tags or consider the social side of traffic generation.

Using an Open Graph Checker

If you implemented OG tags to your website and you want to test them. You can go to toolhubpro. 2 Go to toolhubpro.com and use OG checker tool. So once you visit the website; provide the url of the website where you want the meta og checker tool. It will check if it finds the tags, and display them. If it does not find any tags it will return with a message.

This tool can be used both before implementing OG tags in your website's HTML Header code and afterward. You can use this tool to spy on your competitors websites and know the tags that they are using. You will come to know what advantage your competitor's site has over your site, if sites of your competitors having more traffic than the site of yours and they can find graph tags in it.

Conclusion

Keeping that in mind, if you have had your website designed with business generation in mind, you need to get it optimized to get the maximum traffic to your website. You can do this only when you use the meta og tags and using the social media sites to drive traffic to your site.

The tags must be created carefully and planned. This is what will display your site on the social media websites. A well written title, description and attractive image will increase the interest of people to go to your site. This type of traffic cannot be obtained simply by hoping to make it to the front page of Google. Social media websites are the most visited, most used websites on the earth. You need to use graph tags in your sites and implement them in the code of your websites to get traffic to them. This way, you will be able to make your website stand out and get more clicks and views. The more traffic you will have, the better business you will be able to feed your website traffic.