FB og: tags - why?

[Capote]

Hi everyone,

Can someone explain the benefits of adding OG tags to a site?

As far as I can see/read doing this 'enables a site to become part of the FB social graph' (or similar..)

...and that's what exactly?

(confused smiley)

Cheers.

[Copstead]

The main benefit is that it allows you to control the image, url, title, and description that gets posted on FB.

[applesofgold]

Facebook, in most cases, reads this automatically anyway, so it's usually not necessary.

The best way to check is by sharing one of our pages on facebook and seeing if the correct Title, description, and image comes up.

In some cases, where you want a specific image to always show or want to show a specific title or description every time, you can use the facebook OG tags to choose what Facebook will show on their site when a user shares your page.

As far as becoming a part of the FB social graph, there is not enough info on it yet as far as I know, but it is possible that in the future, it will give you better exposure w/ facebook if you have their tags installed, in case they choose to expand the functionality of these tags within their own network. But again, most likely, they will be able to extract the necessary info automatically without requiring the use of their tags.

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