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Open graph description meta tag is not working in LinkedIn – SEO

As per this article, LinkedIn is supporting open graph meta tags for link preview. I have added all required meta tags in the head section of my HTML page.

ie.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <!-- Primary Meta Tags -->
        <title>This is sample title</title>

        <!-- Open Graph / Facebook / LinkedIn -->
        <meta property="og:type" content="website">
        <meta property="og:title" content="This is sample title">
        <meta property="og:description" content='sample description'>
        <meta property="og:image" content="image path">

    </head>
    <body></body>
</html>

But when I share my link on LinkedIn, LinkedIn does not fetch a description in the link preview.

The same link is working fine on Facebook as Facebook also supports open graph meta tags.

Am I missing something?

Is there any type of validation for description?

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  1. 0

    In your meta elements for all the open graph you specified, you missed the namespace to ogp which is indicated with the use of the prefix element: prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#". Check out the example from the Open Graph guide:

    <html prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#">
<head>
<title>The Rock (1996)</title>
<meta property="og:title" content="The Rock" />
<meta property="og:type" content="video.movie" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/rock.jpg" />
...
</head>
...
</html>

    Thus, your meta elements do not have a link to the library to determine their values. The following syntax may help for your markup: 

    <!DOCTYPE html prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#">
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <!-- Primary Meta Tags -->
        <title>This is sample title</title>

        <!-- Open Graph / Facebook / LinkedIn -->
        <meta property="og:type" content="website">
        <meta property="og:title" content="This is sample title">
        <meta property="og:description" content='sample description'>
        <meta property="og:image" content="image path">

    </head>
    <body></body>
</html>
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  2. 0

    I had same problem for my site using property="og:description". I think this issue from the linked in side. So I was updated from open graph description to meta name description and it’s working fine for me. Please try with following.

    From:

    <meta property="og:description" content='sample description'>

    To:

    <meta name="description" content='sample description'>
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  3. 0

    Only one of these tags will display…

    (list here is with higher-priority items at the top)

    • <meta property='og:image' content='//media.example.com/ 1234567.jpg"/>
    • <meta property='og:description' content='Description that will show in the preview"/>

    You CANNOT display image AND description. You can display image, or description, but not both.

    Source: LinkedIn Support Ticket #200531-001886.

    That is probably your problem.

    If you’re absolutely uncertain why the LinkedIn preview for sharing your page isn’t populating correctly, try each of the following:

    • LinkedIn Post Inspector: Inspect your URL and the inspector will tell you what it found, why it used what content, and how. Added bonus: This should invalidate LinkedIn’s cache of your page (though the invalidation happens after the request, so, you’ll need to re-request if you want the invalidation results).
    • OpenGraph Checker: Validate your og: tags.
    • Manually Refresh LinkedIn’s Cache: Don’t check example.com, check example.com?someFakeArgument=Fake, which is a different URL and should trigger a cache miss.

    There are many ways to set this data. I have seen the following picked up: standard HTML <head> tags, oEmbed data, API post config (requires appid), and the classic og: tags, as we are dealing with.

    You may have any of the following tags….

    • <meta property='og:title' content='Title of the article"/>
    • <meta property='og:url' content='//www.example.com/URL of the article" />

    Source: Official Microsoft LinkedIn Documentation.

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  4. 0

    LinkedIn will only show the description if it’s at least 100 characters long. When I used a short description, the LinkedIn Post Inspector showed this warning: The description should be at least 100 characters long.

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