diff --git a/app/controllers/groups_controller.rb b/app/controllers/groups_controller.rb
index 74f5479d261..7ba55917fee 100644
--- a/app/controllers/groups_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/groups_controller.rb
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ class GroupsController < ApplicationController
   ]
 
   skip_before_action :preload_json, :check_xhr, only: [:posts_feed, :mentions_feed]
+  skip_before_action :check_xhr, only: [:show]
 
   def index
     unless SiteSetting.enable_group_directory?
@@ -48,7 +49,19 @@ class GroupsController < ApplicationController
   end
 
   def show
-    render_serialized(find_group(:id), GroupShowSerializer, root: 'basic_group')
+    respond_to do |format|
+      group = find_group(:id)
+
+      format.html do
+        @title = group.full_name.present? ? group.full_name.capitalize : group.name
+        @description_meta = group.bio_cooked.present? ? PrettyText.excerpt(group.bio_cooked, 300) : @title
+        render :show
+      end
+
+      format.json do
+        render_serialized(group, GroupShowSerializer, root: 'basic_group')
+      end
+    end
   end
 
   def edit
diff --git a/app/views/groups/show.html.erb b/app/views/groups/show.html.erb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cc250d46849
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/groups/show.html.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<% content_for :head do %>
+  <%= raw crawlable_meta_data(title: @title, description: @description_meta) %>
+<% end %>
diff --git a/spec/requests/groups_controller_spec.rb b/spec/requests/groups_controller_spec.rb
index 6aff1275094..dc68c61f002 100644
--- a/spec/requests/groups_controller_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/groups_controller_spec.rb
@@ -57,6 +57,24 @@ describe GroupsController do
     end
   end
 
+  describe '#show' do
+    it 'should respond to HTML' do
+      group.update_attribute(:bio_cooked, 'testing group bio')
+
+      get "/groups/#{group.name}.html"
+
+      expect(response.status).to eq(200)
+
+      expect(response.body).to have_tag(:meta, with: {
+        property: 'og:title', content: group.name
+      })
+
+      expect(response.body).to have_tag(:meta, with: {
+        property: 'og:description', content: group.bio_cooked
+      })
+    end
+  end
+
   describe '#mentionable' do
     it "should return the right response" do
       sign_in(user)
@@ -226,7 +244,7 @@ describe GroupsController do
     end
   end
 
-  describe "edit" do
+  describe "#edit" do
     let(:group) { Fabricate(:group) }
 
     context 'when user is not signed in' do