Should OG tags be used on a websites homepage?
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My current shopping cart uses OG tags on about 1/2 of all pages, it puts them on product pages and that about it. Would it be beneficial to have these tags on all pages?
Thanks for your time.
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Sam and Thompson,
Thanks for your replies! I will say I was thrown for a loop about the tags adding a button ... I couldn't envision how that would work!
So for a primarily ecommerce site would you recommend using:
for the every page that doesn't fall into one of the other defined facebook types or should I create custom types?
FYI, our cart uses the following on product pages:
A type of "product" seems appropriate but it isn't listed in the defined facebook types so I'm not sure it's being used correctly on these pages. Any thoughts?
Again thanks!!!
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Open Graph (OG) tags go in the header of the page and have nothing to do with adding a Like button to the page's contents. There's no reason you can't have the OG markup without having a Like button.
I agree with Sam it's definitely a good idea to have them on all pages as it's the schema that ensures that when someone links to your page from inside Facebook, you have control over what title, image and snippet are displayed there.
Paul
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Yes! OG tags will help facebook display your site the way you'd want it to look on facebook. Putting them on your homepage is especially important.
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