I am doing an SEO project and I noticed that all of the meta tags have an "og" in the property
attribute of the tag, such as:
<meta property="og:title" content="" />
<meta property="og:type" content="" />
<meta property="og:url" content="" />
<meta property="og:image" content="" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="" />
<meta property="og:description" content="" />
I'm wondering if using the Open Graph Protocol is helpful or possible harmful to SEO and what is the best practice?
I think it's supposed to make it easier for Facebook and other social networks to share the metadata on your site, but what I really care about is the Google organic search ranking.
So should I repeat/double the description
meta
tag with one that does not have the og
property
, or remove the og
property
, or just leave it in because the og
property
is harmless to SEO?