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June 12, 2026

# What Is Open Graph Preview Tool? A Practical Guide to Open Graph Tags

A page can be perfectly optimized for search and still look broken the moment someone shares it on social media — Open Graph tags are a completely separate system that Google's crawler doesn't use but every major platform's link preview does.

Open Graph Preview Tool exists to solve one specific, recurring problem: Open Graph tags is easy to get wrong by hand, tedious to check manually across a whole site, and quick to fix once you can actually see it clearly. That's the gap Open Graph Preview Tool fills.

In practice, this usually comes up in one of two situations — you're setting things up correctly from the start on a new page or site, or you're auditing something that already exists and trying to find what's silently broken. Both are worth doing regularly, not just once.

A few things worth keeping in mind:
- Set a dedicated `og:image` sized correctly per platform (1200Ã—630 is a safe general default) rather than letting the platform guess from the first image on the page.
- Write an `og:description` distinct from the meta description if the ideal share copy differs from the ideal search snippet — they're serving different contexts.
- Test previews on every major platform separately — Facebook, LinkedIn, and X/Twitter each cache and render Open Graph data slightly differently.

It's also worth knowing what commonly goes wrong here. Leaving Open Graph tags entirely unset and letting each platform guess a preview, which often picks an irrelevant image or a truncated auto-generated description. And avoiding these is usually less about effort and more about knowing to check in the first place.

This connects to a few other things worth getting right at the same time — see RSS Feed Generator and SERP Snippet Preview Tool for the related pieces of the same technical foundation.

If you want to check this on your own site right now, Open Graph Preview Tool runs directly in your browser, free, with no account required.

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