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Rules / og-image-redirects · ruleset 2026-07

og:image URL redirects

warningog-image-redirects

Name

og:image URL redirects og-image-redirects

Some crawlers do not follow image redirects (or only follow a limited hop budget). A 30x on the image URL can yield a blank card.

How to fix

Point og:image at the final CDN URL with a 200 response — no intermediate redirects.

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# og-image-redirects — og:image URL redirects

- **Name:** og:image URL redirects

## Description

Some crawlers do not follow image redirects (or only follow a limited hop budget). A 30x on the image URL can yield a blank card.

## How to fix

Point og:image at the final CDN URL with a 200 response — no intermediate redirects.

## Rule docs

https://ogkit.akr.moe/rules/og-image-redirects

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Rule idog-image-redirects
Severitywarning
CategoryImages
Platformsall platforms
Needs humanno

What this is

og:image URL redirects. OGKit rule og-image-redirects (warning). The id is a public API for the docs URL and CI --disable key; do not rename it.

Search phrases that should land on this page:

  • og:image URL redirects
  • Image URL redirects
  • og:image 301

Why it matters

Some crawlers do not follow image redirects (or only follow a limited hop budget). A 30x on the image URL can yield a blank card.

Which platforms are affected

All OGKit platform profiles, including major social, chat, and search crawlers that consume these tags.

Platform-specific crawler budgets and field priority live in the platform behaviour reference.

How to reproduce

  1. curl -I the og:image URL. A 3xx to another host/path triggers this rule.
  2. Some crawlers stop after the first hop on images.
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