Update site metadata to adopt best practices for discoverability and preview cards #4950
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User Story
In order to improve discoverability and present accurate information, Scangov and public users want complete, accurate site metadata .
Acceptance Criteria
WHEN a search happens
THEN complete metadata will improve data.gov discoverability
AND allow browsers to better categorize the site and pages
Background
Data.gov's Scangov.org metadata rating is a F https://scangov.org/profile/?domain=data.gov#metadata
Some of the missing fields are actually present in the site's
<head>, but with no values:Both ScanGov and Search.gov recommend having complete metadata for indexing and discoverability.
Security Considerations (required)
none
Sketch
To data.gov:
<meta name="description" content="" /><meta property="og:description" content="" /><meta property="og:url">with a value<meta property="og:image">with a value<meta property="og:image:alt">with a value<link rel="canonical">To catalog.data.gov
<meta property="og:url">to actually have a value of the page's URL, rather than a static "data.gov" value<meta name="description" content="" />with a value<meta property="og:image:alt">with a valueThe text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: