What are Social media meta-tags?
- Meta-tags are comprised of various tags that allow you to give more information to site because it is used to indicate what function each part of a web-page will have.
- The point of using social meta tags is to control the way your content is displayed in the feeds rather than letting Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms generate the headline, description and image for you.
- Tags in social media works the same way, except they determine how the page is supposed to appear and what information to give to other websites when sharing a page.
- Tags are located within the <head> tags of a web-page which gives information to search engines and other websites about your site and in social media it works the same way, except they determine how the page is supposed to appear and what information to give to other websites when sharing a page.
- You can read my previous article related to Tag optimization so that you are able to understand how to optimize your website tags.
- Below syntax describes how to give social meta-tags:-
Syntax to define Facebook Meta-Tags
<meta property="Fd:admins" content="fb numeric ID"/>
<meta property="og:title" content="give title here"/>
<meta property="og:type" content="article/image"/>
<meta property="og:url" content="url"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="image url 1200X630 px"/>
<meta property="og:description" content="description 300 characters maximum"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="website name">
Syntax to define Twitter Meta-Tags
<meta property="twitter:site" content="@publisher handle"/>
<meta property="twitter:title" content="page title"/>
<meta property="twitter:description" content="description of maximum 200 characters"/>
<meta property="twitter:url" content="url of author's page"/>
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