Why is it that I can't have both an image and a description, when I share an article on Linkedin? They are both defined in my metatags and I can see both in the preview, but the final post will only have the image, and if there is no image it will have the description.
<meta property="og:description" content="Some description">
<meta property="og:title" content="Some title">
<meta property="og:image" content="/path_to_image">
I have read their documentation but it doesn't mention that it is not a possibility to have both.
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When I see like an Facebook post, when you linked like Youtube, Soundcloud etc., you get an picture. But when I do it and I post my website, it doesn’t compute.
But it doesn’t show in Facebook. The picture is 300x300 so what I did wrong?
<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.statospro.se/img/StatosLogoad.jpg" >
For Facebook you can use the og meta properties.
<meta property="og:title" content="YOUR PAGE TITLE">
<meta property="og:type" content="website">
<meta property="og:url" content="https://WWW.YOUR-URL.HERE">
<meta property="og:image" content="https://WWW.YOUR-URL.HERE/AND-THE-PATH-TO-YOUR-IMAGE.JPG">
How does linked in retrieves the image from the URL? Is there any tag for it?
As i tried to post the url link in the post window of linked in, it automatically displayed the image available in the particular URL, in what basis does the image is retreived. as there is any tags does linked in searches for it to display.
Please help me on the same
It uses opengraph:
sample open graph meta tags
(snippet from https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/share-on-linkedin)
<html prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#">
<head>
<meta property="og:title" content="My Shared Article Title" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Description of shared article" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://example.com/my_article.html" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://example.com/foo.jpg" />
</head>
<body>
…
</body>
</html>
I can't understand why Facebook sharer keeps showing the wrong article's author when sharing articles of my website. (Of course I always use Facebook Debugger before sharing).
Take this article as an example: although it is clearly written by Francesca Aloisio, it keeps showing (when shared) "by Virginia Vigliar".
Facebook Debugger reports:
<meta property="article:publisher" content="https://www.facebook.com/wordsinthebucket" />
<meta property="article:author" content="https://www.facebook.com/francesca.aloisio.397" />
I just can't figure out why.
N.B. I use Wordpress SEO by Yoast.
Why are you having the og values defined twice?
Have a look at below (line 23 to line 47):
<!--Facebook Open Graph-->
<!--FB page title-->
<meta property="og:title" content="Indonesia Makes a Sharp U-turn on Virginity Tests" />
<!--FB description-->
<meta property="og:description" content="Most students in the world may think that in order to get their high school diploma they would have to meet certain requirements: good grades, good attitude towards school, good relationship with teac..."/>
<!--FB url-->
<meta property="og:url" content="http://wordsinthebucket.com/u-turn-indonesia-virginity-tests"/>
<!--FB image-->
<meta property="og:image" content="http://wordsinthebucket.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/indonesia-exam.jpg" />
<!--FB type-->
<meta property="og:type" content="article"/>
<!--FB site name-->
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Words in the Bucket"/>
<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v2.3.5 - https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ -->
<title>Indonesia Makes a Sharp U-turn on Virginity Tests</title>
<meta name="description" content="Indonesian officials were forced to take a step back on their proposal of introducing virginity tests for high schoolgirls."/>
<link rel="canonical" href="http://wordsinthebucket.com/u-turn-indonesia-virginity-tests" />
<link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/+WiBTeam/about"/>
<meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Indonesia Makes a Sharp U-turn on Virginity Tests" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Indonesian officials were forced to take a step back on their proposal of introducing virginity tests for high schoolgirls." />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://wordsinthebucket.com/u-turn-indonesia-virginity-tests" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Words in the Bucket" />
Remove either one of them, because this is causing the FB Debugger to show that:
Try adding
<meta name="author" content="[THE_AUTHOR_HERE]">
also plus removing the duplication and then going here: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/ insert the url and press "fetch new scrape information" and see if that fixes it.
First of all: thank you all for your replies. However in the meanwhile I changed my theme cause I realized that it was an issue related to my previous one: it had a "top post" part at the very beginning of the page and the first post showed in there was seen by the FB sharer as the meta "source".
Regarding the double og values, thank for noticing. My actual theme appearently has its own "SEO". So I just removed it from the header.php file and keep YOAST SEO doing the job.
This is a weird problem, never faced before & hope I'll never face it again. Our website worldocricket.com is running on wordpress. Its related to news website so we are using social plugins like facebook's like & twitter's tweet buttons etc..
We created some new pages on our site, they are outside of the wordpress folder but on the same domain & are are connected with wordpress using [wp-load.php]. They all are working fine but when we tried to create facebook like button for one of our new pages; using fb developers tool (like button creator) www.developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ , it spoiled our lunch.
On adding page url " wwww.worldocricket.com/categories/special/tournaments/asia-cup/2012/accasia312.php " in 'URL to Like' box, it showed like counts in preview, on clicking 'like' & 'send' buttons, it revealed that it is liking/sending the main url of the site ( www.worldocricket.com ) which we don't want to, the url we added (or we want to be shared) was different. I thought that was a temporary problem but even after 24-36 hrs we got the same results.
We added og:title / og:type / og:url / og:image in the header after googling.
<meta property=”og:title” content=”ACC Asia Cup 2012”/>
<meta property="og:url" content="http://worldocricket.com/categories/special/tournaments/asia-cup/2012/accasia312.php" />
<meta property=”og:site_name” content=”World Of Cricket”/>
<meta property="og:image" content="http://worldocricket.com/categories/special/tournaments/asia-cup/2012/temptaby/images/asiacup12logo.jpg"/>
But it also proved to be useless. We then used fb debugger ( www.developers.facebook.com/tools/debug ), it showed that it is fetching right url but there is wrong Canonical URL. So we used <link rel="canonical" href="http://worldocricket.com/categories/special/tournaments/asia-cup/2012/accasia312.php"> but the result was same. :/
Our website : http://worldocricket.com
We want like button on http://worldocricket.com/categories/special/tournaments/asia-cup/2012/accasia312.php
Question is : How to get facebook social plugins (like , share , send) working correctly on our site's respective page?
According to the debugger, when the crawler reaches http://worldocricket.com/categories/special/tournaments/asia-cup/2012/accasia312.php it's finding multiple og:url tags, I've verified this in curl:
<meta property="og:title" content="ACC Asia Cup 2012"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="World Of Cricket"/>
<meta property="og:url" content="http://worldocricket.com/categories/special/tournaments/asia-cup/2012/accasia312.php" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://worldocricket.com/categories/special/tournaments/asia-cup/2012/temptaby/images/asiacup12logo.jpg"/>
<meta itemprop="name" content="ACC Asia Cup 2012">
<meta itemprop="description" content="Best Cricketing event in Asia organized by Asian Cricket Council (ACC).">
<meta itemprop="image" content="http://worldocricket.com/categories/special/tournaments/asia-cup/2012/temptaby/images/asiacup12logo.jpg">
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 3.3.1" />
<meta property="og:title" content=""/>
<meta property="og:type" content="article"/>
<meta property="og:url" content=""/>
<meta property="og:image" content=""/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="World Of Cricket"/>
<meta property="fb:admins" content="1789905767"/>
<meta property='og:site_name' content='World Of Cricket' />
<meta property='fb:app_id' content='189072694472072' />
<meta property='og:locale' content='en_US' />
Make sure you're only returning one set of tags and they're valid
With the facebook iframe like button, am I able to specify what text shows up in a users stream?
When I use a plugin for a wordpress blog post it shows up at
USERNAMe likes POST TITLE on BLOG NAME
but when I try and put it on another page with the straight up iframe code, i just get:
USERNAME likes http://www.pagename.com/bla/bla/bla
How can I specify what text shows up?
Do you have open graph tags on your page, like:
<html xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
<head>
<meta property="og:image" content="..." />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="..." />
<meta property="og:title" content="..." />
<meta property="og:url" content="..." />
<meta property="og:description" content="..." />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
</head>
More about those here.