Adding Facebook Open Graph (OG) Meta Tags On Blogger

Adding Facebook Open Graph (OG) Meta Tags On Blogger

Addding Open Graph Meta Tags on Facebook is straightforward.

Go to blogger Dashboard => Template => Edit HTML

On top of the code, find the <html> tag, it should look similar to this:

<html b:version=’2′ class=’v2′ expr:dir=’data:blog.languageDirection’ xmlns=’http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml’ xmlns:b=’http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b’ xmlns:data=’http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data’ xmlns:expr=’http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr’>

Add the Facebook xml namespace by adding the following line inside the tag (Before the > character):

xmlns:og=’http://ogp.me/ns#’

So the html tag should look similar to:

<html b:version=’2′ class=’v2′ expr:dir=’data:blog.languageDirection’ xmlns=’http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml’ xmlns:b=’http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b’ xmlns:data=’http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data’ xmlns:expr=’http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr’ xmlns:og=’http://ogp.me/ns#’>

Before the </head> tag, paste the following:

<!– Open Graph Meta Tags BEGIN –>
<meta expr:content=’data:blog.pageName’ property=’og:title’/>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.postImageUrl’>
</b:if>
<meta expr:content=’data:blog.title’ property=’og:title’/>
<meta expr:content=’data:blog.canonicalUrl’ property=’og:url’/>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.metaDescription’>
<meta expr:content=’data:blog.metaDescription’ property=’og:description’/>
</b:if>
<!– Open Graph Meta Tags END –>

That’s it! Before testing your page on Facebook, Make sure to debug your page to re-cache your blog’s info:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

Also please note, that many blogs provides the wrong information, by using “data:blog.postImageThumbnailUrl” instead of “data:blog.postImageUrl”, which will result in the following error on Facebook debugger:
Provided og:image is not big enough. Please use an image that’s at least 200×200 px.

In order to prevent this, you can use the code above, and make sure you have a picture on your blog post with at least 200×200 pixels.

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Aloha, I'm Amit Ghosh, a web entrepreneur and avid blogger. Bitten by entrepreneurial bug, I got kicked out from college and ended up being millionaire and running a digital media company named Aeron7 headquartered at Lithuania.