How Facebook Indexes Blog Links (and What I Do to Help It)
. Learn how Facebook actually indexes blog links and why a simple, human-written caption helps its bots understand your content. No OG tags, no technical steps just context that Facebook can read. I’ve spent a lot of time watching how Facebook reacts when I share a blog post, and one thing has become very clear: Facebook doesn’t rely on OG tags or technical tweaks nearly as much as people think. What its bots really need is context. When you give Facebook a short description, a couple of hashtags, and a clean link, the algorithm immediately understands what your post is about and how to index it. That’s why some links show up in search while others quietly disappear. When I share a blog post, I focus on giving Facebook exactly what it needs to read the link correctly. I write a short description in my own words something natural that explains what the post covers and why it matters. I add no more than three hashtags because Facebook seems to prefer that number; anythi...