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The Open Graph protocol enables developers to integrate their pages into what Facebook call the "social graph".

The Open Graph protocol enables developers to integrate their pages into what Facebook call the "social graph". These pages gain the functionality of other graph objects including profile links and stream updates for connected users.

The Open Graph protocol was originally created at Facebook and is inspired by Dublin Core, link-rel canonical, Microformats, and RDFa.

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Twitter card [summary_large_image] not displaying image

I have set up a series of Twitter cards for my website. The type of twitter card is [summary_large_image]. The meta-information included in the of my webpage is:
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What's the difference between og description and meta description?

Should we have both for better SEO? Does having og description, override meta name description?
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Should I have og:description and meta description together on every page?

Or will Google not like it if I have two kinds of description tags? I just put up a new blog and it automatically adds the og:description and og:title and I am not sure if that is going to get me penalized or my pages somehow discounted if I have…
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Is it okay to omit Open Graph and Twitter tags for social network cards and SEO?

My pages already have good html meta tags like title and description for Google SEO. I also added og:title, og:description, twitter:title, twitter:description and other meta tags, but I found in most cases og:title/twitter:title are the same as…
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Does Facebook Need both og:image and og:image:secure_url for HTTPS only site?

Now that I updated many of my sites to be HTTPS only, redirecting HTTP requests as needed, I did notice that sharing on Facebook produced a blank image. Refreshing the Share Attachment does not change anything, so I looked into t he FB…
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Does using OpenGraph meta tags help webpages to get indexed better?

I have actually been reading and thinking about adding OpenGraph meta tags to help people who are sharing my blog posts, and different information of my site on Facebook. From reading, that will help index the site even better. The basic setup for…
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Legal responsibility of public posts

Given a public site with no logins: I let people post links to public Facebook profiles, and my site fetches the profile picture and displays it. Would it be ok if I just told people to post profiles of which they had the owner’s permission? Does…
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Google Structured Data Testing Tool Repeat Error: "The URL could not be rendered. Some markup may be missing."

When using Google's Structured Data Testing Tool, I consistently get the error: The URL could not be rendered. Some markup may be missing. I have identified and fixed all of the structured data errors - I have 3 items, all of which have 0 errors,…
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Case for and against different URLs for rel="canonical" and og:url meta tags

I am trying to decide whether it is a good idea to use different URLs for the rel="canonical" and open graphs og:url links in the following use case: A pretty standard product…
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Is it bad for SEO to have the same content for meta description and og:description?

I am using ahref.com and they are identifying critical duplicate content issues with my titles and meta descriptions. They say the critical warning is because the content in my meta description and og:description is the same. It seems strange to me…
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Does each separate page require unique Open Graph Protocol markup or will a 'global' one suffice?

I am in the process of integrating og: protocol markup to my sites and I'm wondering whether each separate page will require unique markup or whether a global one will suffice. For instance, when implementing the standard
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Should have an alt tag?

I want to follow good SEO practices by adding alt tags to all my images. For Facebook sharing, I have this code: Can I add an alt="Facebook image" to that?
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Using open graph meta tags for a Facebook feed without creating a Facebook app

Description I'm going to implement Open Graph's meta tags to display content on my website properly in a Facebook feed. In order to use this (source - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/getting-started/) I have to create an application…
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Opengraph image and license

For our website, we sometimes re-syndicate articles and blog posts that mention our organization in our own blog on our site. We summarize the article, and include a link back to the original source. To help speed creation of such blog posts, I…
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How can you get a thumbnail when you share a PDF on Facebook

One of my clients writes cookbooks. Some time ago, he wrote an article about the origins of Boston Cream Pie, which he has on his site as a PDF on a page of links to various articles he has written. I would like to share that PDF on Facebook, but…
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