See how your links look when shared

What we find on almost every site we check

When we audit local business websites, missing social tags are almost universal - their links look broken when shared.

• Every single one had 5-star Google reviews - and not one had the review schema that makes star ratings show up in search.
• Most had no Open Graph tags, so shared links showed up bare - no title, no image.
• Missing or wrong-sized share images were the most common cause of plain, ignorable previews.

We hand-verify every finding before we report it, because audit tools - ours included - throw the occasional false positive. The numbers above are issues we confirmed in the page source, not just tool flags.

Every time your link gets shared - in a post, a DM, a Slack channel - Open Graph tags decide whether it shows up as a rich preview with an image or a bare, ignorable URL. Most sites never set them up.

What the Open Graph checker finds

• Missing tags - no og:title, og:description, or og:image, so platforms have nothing to show.
• Broken or wrong-size images - og:image that's unreachable or not the right dimensions for a clean preview.
• Missing Twitter cards - no twitter:card or twitter:image, so X falls back to plain text.
• Mismatched URLs - og:url that doesn't match the page's real address.

The tags every page should have

A complete set is og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url, and og:type, plus twitter:card and twitter:image. The image should be about 1200x630 pixels so it renders crisply across platforms. The checker confirms each one is present and valid.

Fix it once, share it anywhere

Open Graph is a set-and-forget fix - get the tags right once and every future share looks professional. On paid plans, RankBuddy writes the full tag set for your page so it's a single paste. Want the rest of your social and on-page signals checked too? Run a free SEO audit.