As a Blogger sharing your blog contents on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter is one of the easiest means to drive traffic to your blog and improve your blog domain authority in search engine ranking.
If you are blogging on Google Blogger/Blogspot and using the default or an old Blogger template you might discover that post thumbnails is not visible when you shared any of your blog post on Facebook or Twitter. This is simply because Open Graph Meta Tags are not added to header section of your blog.
In one of our recent updates I shared with you How to Add Social Media Icon in Blogger so today I have prepared and will be sharing the easy step by step guide to add Facebook and Twitter Open Graph Meta Tags In Blogger with any hassle. Just follow all the guidelines listed in this article.
Before we begin we need to understand what open graph meta tags are, what they does and how to Integrate them in Blogger.
What Are Open Graph Meta Tags?
Open Graph Meta Tags also known as social media tags are small snippets of code introduced by Facebook so as to improve the integration between Facebook and other websites thereby allowing any web page to have the same functionality as any other object on Facebook. In a more simple term Open Graph Meta Tags are code that control how URLs are displayed when shared on social media.
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You can find them in the section of your Blogger template and are usually indicated by the og: meta property
Below is an example of a blog post shared on Facebook with Open Graph Meta Tags added
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Importance of Open Graph Meta Tags
- Open Graph Meta Tags make your posts shared on social media more attractive, clickable, and understandable. This leads to more website traffic and thereby improves brand visibility.
- Og tags help Facebook and other social media to understand what the content is about, which can help increase your Blog and brand visibility in Search Engine.
How To Setup Open Graph Meta Tags In Blogger
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