title: Exclude image from Open Graph
body: <p><strong>tl;dr</strong> I'm wanting to specify NO image by default in my og:image tag.</p>
  
  <p><em>I've been googling like a madman to figure this one out, but everything I find are questions from people who can't get their images to show up instead of <strong>preventing</strong> their images from showing up.</em></p>
  
  <p>So, here's the deal.  On my <a href="http://jerreck.me" rel="nofollow noreferrer">personal website</a> in my master page is a picture of my face.  Now, it's a nice picture (because, hey, it's a nice face) and I'd like to keep it, but I don't like that it's picked up by social media scrapers whenever my links are shared - that just seems a little <em>too</em> egotistical.</p>
  
  <p>I DO like that it picks up other images, like the ones I occasionally include in my blog posts, but if there aren't any other images on a page then I want the scrapers to ignore my face.</p>
  
  <p>I've experimented with commenting out the code that generates the og:image tag in my <a href="https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Yoast plugin</a>, then hard coding the tag with an empty content attribute into my header.php:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta property="og:image" content="" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This partially achieved the desired effect - Facebook's scraper detects that no image url is specified, but is still seems to be defaulting to whatever other image it can find.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://ogp.me/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Open Graph protocol</a> doesn't appear to include behavior for specifying no images, either.</p>
  
  <p>Any thoughts on how I could do this?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> I just found some workarounds in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/4810564/2344773">this question</a> that will probably do the trick, but if anyone has any other ideas, I would appreciate hearing them as well.</p>