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I'm trying to get my site to rank on Google Search. I've searched the whole web, literarily on how to make this work. I see that when I search, it doesn't use the description meta tag. When I look at my source code it uses both og:description and description, does this cause any type of issue? Should it be de-duplicated as many tutorials suggests?
<meta name="description" content="ELDE Cosmetics creates natural, fun and minimalistic skin care products for all skin types. Free from fragrance, essential oils, parabens.">
<meta name="keywords" content="Beauty, skincare, makeup, fragrance, perfume" />
<link rel="canonical" href="https://eldecosmetics.com/">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">
<meta property="og:type" content="website">
<meta property="og:title" content="ELDE Cosmetics — Natural & Organic Skin Care">
<meta property="og:description" content="ELDE Cosmetics creates natural, fun and minimalistic skin care products for all skin types. Free from fragrance, essential oils, parabens.">
<meta property="og:url" content="https://eldecosmetics.com/">
<meta property="og:site_name" content="ELDE">
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The OG description is typically used by the likes of Facebook and Twitter to provide supplementary descriptions for posted links and is normally required if you provide OG data. The meta description provides search engines with a summary of the page contents, sometime used used in search results.
og:description However, unlike a regular meta description tag, it won't affect your SEO, but it's still a good idea to make it compelling to get people to click on it.
The og:description stands for the Open Graph description. It's a short description what the page is about, similar to the meta description. Example code snippet. <meta property="og:description" content="Get more clicks and outsmart your competitors with Schema.org!" /> Requirements.
Open Graph meta tags are snippets of code that control how URLs are displayed when shared on social media. They're part of Facebook's Open Graph protocol and are also used by other social media sites, including LinkedIn and Twitter (if Twitter Cards are absent).
Sorry to disappoint you, but these two tags do actually very marginally (if at all) affect SEO. They are mainly used for showing short descriptions of your page, if your site is linked on other sites. description may (you have no certainty) be (partially) used by search-engines, while og:description may be used by social media networks like facebook.
edit: using both (with useful content) won't hurt.
To combine them (Schema and OGP) see this and this SO posts.
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