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• Can I preview how a new page will look in search results before I publish it on my store?Yes. The tool never visits the URL or checks the page exists, so a planned address in a valid https:// form works. An example for an Eid collection page before launch.
• The product title I copied from my supplier is 135 characters long and stuffed with repeated words. How do I shorten it into a good page title?Keep the product type, what sets it apart and your store name; drop repeated words, generic claims and audience lists. Worked example: 135 characters down to 35.
• Which og:type should I use for a product page, and which for a blog article on my store?Use website for product and category pages and article for dated blog posts. What the builder writes for each type, and the extras it leaves to you.
• When my store link is shared on X, should I pick the large image card or the summary card with a small image?The large image card suits a wide picture; the summary card shows a small, usually square thumbnail beside the text. How to choose, and when to drop Twitter tags.
• The tool warns me that the image alt text is empty. What should I write there for a product photo?Describe what is in the picture for someone who cannot see it, not the page title or a keyword list. Product examples, and what the builder writes once you fill it.
• I sell in both Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Should I choose ar_SA or ar_AE as the page locale (og:locale)?og:locale describes the language and region of the page text, not where you ship. One value per page, and the field is optional. How to choose, and what the tool writes.
• I typed /products/oud as the page URL for og:url and the tool rejected it. Why must it be a full URL?Platforms read og:url on its own, so a bare path says nothing about your site. Why a relative page URL is an error while a relative image only gets a warning.
• Do I need to state the image width and height in my share tags? And why does the tool warn me when I only fill in the width?Image width and height are optional hints that belong together. Why the builder warns when only one is filled, how it reads Arabic digits, and what it rejects.
• Should my share title (og:title) be the same as my search engine title, or should I write a different one?A search title competes in a list and often carries the store name; a share title sits in a card that already shows the site. When to write them differently.
• My site runs WordPress with an SEO plugin. Should I paste the Open Graph tags from the tool as well?SEO plugins often write share tags already, and a second set gives platforms two titles or images. Check the page source first; use the builder to prepare values.
• Should I put my campaign link with utm_source in og:url, or keep it as the clean page URL?og:url is the page's canonical address, so keep it clean. Tracking tags belong on the link you share, not in the page tags. The builder writes what you paste, unchanged.
• Why does the tool not treat og:description as required? Can I leave it empty?The protocol requires four properties and the description is not one of them. What the builder writes when it is empty, and why a short line still helps.
• My share image link starts with http:// rather than https://. Could that be why the picture does not show when the link is shared?It can be: some platforms and apps load only secure images, and the builder accepts http without a warning. What to check yourself, since the tool never opens the image.
• I write my Open Graph tags by hand in the page code. What common mistakes does the tool help avoid?Unescaped & and apostrophes, name instead of property, relative links and a forgotten required property. The usual hand-coding slips and how the builder handles each.
• My store is on Salla, Zid or Shopify. Do I need to make a sitemap myself, or does the platform create one? When would I need this tool?Hosted platforms usually generate a sitemap, and you usually cannot replace it. How to check what your platform serves, and when this tool is actually the right fit.
• I have my site's page links in an Excel column, with a last-modified date next to each. How do I turn that into a sitemap.xml file?Copy the URL and date columns as lines, or save them as a CSV and upload it. A header row is skipped, dates are year first, and a line with no date gets no lastmod.
• The tool rejected some lines in my list, such as /about and example.com/shop. How do I fix them?A sitemap needs complete URLs starting with https://. How to read each rejected line's number and reason, and fix relative, schemeless and spaced links.
• My link list has some URLs with www and some without. Which ones should I keep in the sitemap?Every URL in a sitemap should sit on the host the file is uploaded to. How to find the version your site opens on, and how the tool counts each host and keeps one.
• I wrote the last-modified date as 01/03/2026 and it did not come out as a date. What date format does a sitemap accept?Sitemaps use the W3C format, year first: 2026-03-01. Why a day-first date sticks to the URL, when a line is rejected, and how to write a time and time zone.
• Should I add colour, size and filter URLs like ?color=red&size=12 to my sitemap?Usually not: filters create many addresses for one page, and a sitemap lists the version you want in search. When a parameter URL earns a place, and how XML writes &.
• My site has more than 50,000 URLs. How do I upload the split sitemap files and the index so they point to the right place?Past 50,000 URLs or 50 MB the tool splits the list into sitemap-1.xml onward plus sitemap-index.xml in a ZIP. Why the folder address must match the upload place exactly.
• I pasted 120 links but the sitemap came out with only 97. Where did the rest go?Three things shrink the count: exact duplicates, links that differ only by a #fragment, and rejected lines. How to read the summary so no page you need goes missing.
• I have a wholesale price page I do not want everyone to see. Is it safe to put it in my sitemap?No. A sitemap is a public file anyone can read, so every URL in it is announced. Why an unlisted link does not protect a page, and what actually does.
• What is the difference between a sitemap and a robots.txt file, and does my small site need both?A sitemap lists what you want found; robots.txt asks crawlers to skip paths and can point to the sitemap in one line. What a small site actually needs.