How to use OGTester?
What is this article about?
This article explains quickly what OGTester is and what problem it solves. Followed by a quick tutorial. We assume that you know what HTML is and what meta tags are. If not, we wrote a short article: What are Open Graph Meta Tags?
What problem does OGTester solve?
I wanted to test how meta tags looked like on a social media. These were the steps needed to test your meta tags on social media without OGTester.
- You edit the HTML meta tags on your page
- Publish the new version online
- Wait
- Share your link on Social media
- Did not work
- Edit HTML again
- Publish again
- Wait
- Share your link on Social media
- Wait
As you can see, it is very time-consuming. The above steps looks like this with OGTester:
- You provide the meta tags
- Generate a unique link
- Share the link on Social media
- Did not work.
- Edit them
- Share the new link
What is OGTester?
Simply speaking, OGTester generates a link with the meta tags you provided.
How to use OGTester.com to test the generate a link?
The idea is simple: you provide the meta tags and OGTester creates a unique link. You share the link on WhatsApp and immediately see how the preview looks like.
To create a link, you go to https://ogtester.com/creator:
- Provide the meta tags
- Create a link
- Share the created link on social media
