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Asked: 2026-05-26T16:51:21+00:00

I am doing my best to understand what everything means in the Open Graph

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I am doing my best to understand what everything means in the Open Graph Protocol Reading the FB page on it and the OGP Page. What exactly does this mean in the world of FB and OGP:

Note that the Open Graph protocol is currently designed to support
real-life objects. If your URL is a piece of content — such as a news
article, photo, video, or similar — you should set og:type to article
(see below). Pages of type article do not have publishing rights, and
will not show up on user’s profiles because they are not real world
objects

What exactly does Pages of type article do not have publishing rights, and will not show up on user's profiles I think I understand the publishing rights but what exacly does not show on the user;s profile? The user profile part is what I do not understand.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The “type” is just an Open Graph <meta> tag you set in a page’s <head>:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Example Page</title>         

        <meta property="og:title" content="Some example page" /> 

        <!-- This is what it means to set the og:type to article -->
        <meta property="og:type" content="article" />

        <meta property="og:url" 
                content="http://example.com/canonical/url/to/this/content" />
        <!-- etc -->
    </head>
    <body>
        <!-- snip -->
    </body>
</html>

    Lots more reading: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/beta/opengraph/

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