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Social: Multiple OG Tags

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Issues Social Multiple OG Tags

Multiple OG Tags

Pages that have multiple OG tag types from og:url, og:title, og:description and og:image.

There should only be a single OG tag type for each page.

Multiple OG tags could mean mix-ups are made with controlling how content is displayed in snippets by social media platforms.

Multiple OG tags are often caused by multiple conflicting plugins or modules in CMS.

While the OG spec allows multiple og:image tags, behaviour varies by platform on how they are used.

How to Analyse in the SEO Spider

View URLs with this issue in the ‘Social’ tab and ‘Multiple OG Tags’ filter, and export all URLs using the ‘Export’ button.

What Triggers This Issue

This issue is triggered when there are multiple OG tag types.

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta property="og:title" content="Your headline">
<meta property="og:title" content="Your headline 2">
<meta property="og:description" content="Your exciting description.">
<meta property="og:url" content="https://example.com">
<meta property="og:image" content="https://example.com/image.jpg">
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>

In the example above, there are multiple og:title tags.

How To Fix

Update OG tags so there is only a single OG tag type for each page to avoid any potential issues with controlling how content is displayed on social media platforms.

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