I have a bigcommerce store. I tried to use a 3rd party tracking tool that adds some url parameters to the url for tracking. It works well on all pages, except of home page. For example
http://twigpencils.com/cloth-pencils?param=1 and same version without the param (just delete the param=1) bring me to the same page (with the url param on the relevant page).
However, when trying the same on the home page
http://twigpencils.com/?param=1 creates a 404 error vs regular home page without the param (?param=1) that works just fine.
Any idea how to fix?
Thanks
John
John, I want to help you with this but first, I see 3 issues that could be affecting the behavior you describe:
First, a Broken Meta Tag
At around line 8 of your HTMLHead.html file, your meta tag for keywords is broken:
<meta name="keywords"twig pencil,apple pencil,apple pencils,dictionary pencil,graphite,chaparral,colored pencils " />
It's missing the content= attribute. It should look like this:
<meta name="keywords" content="twig pencil,apple pencil,apple pencils,dictionary pencil,graphite,chaparral,colored pencils" />
Second, A Major Syntax Error
This error may be breaking several functions on your page.
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token < Line: 34
At around line 34 in your HTMLHead.html Panel file, a couple lines above where you placed the Google Webmaster Verification meta tag, one of your javascript tags is incomplete:
<script type="text/javascript" async defer
</script>
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="3TJvxTrq55AqFcwuo2KtEH1uUMBZPyeQ5LBnmVh8OKk" />
The problem is at the end of this line <script type="text/javascript" async defer, as its missing a closing >. The code should at least look like this:
<script type="text/javascript" async defer>
</script>
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="3TJvxTrq55AqFcwuo2KtEH1uUMBZPyeQ5LBnmVh8OKk" />
However, considering it has async defer, it leads me to believe that it was supposed to load an external script, and either someone deleted the srcattribute and also accidentally deleted the >, or some improper BC commenting or something of that nature is breaking the tag. I can help further if I saw the actual code as it is in the BC Design backend.
Third, Non-WWW or WWW
I notice that when I navigate to http://twigpencils.com/?param=1, it takes me to http://www.twigpencils.com/, which would be fine, except that when I navigate to http://twigpencils.com/cloth-pencils?param=1 it takes me to http://twigpencils.com/cloth-pencils?param=1.
This is a fairly major problem, but is fairly easy to solve.
Either you need to forward from WWW to non-WWW on your domain/hosting backend, and/or do the same on your Google Webmaster Panel, or do both.
Before we try to figure out the main problem you mentioned, you should resolve these 3 issues first as they could be affecting the behavior you describe, but are at the very least breaking many things on your site.
Let me know if this helps and if you have nay other questions.
This has to do with a broken .htaccess file, causing PHP to not correctly parse the parameters. Unfortunatly bigcommerce does not allow you to edit the .htaccess file directly.
I'd recommend checking out shopify or another platform. I've been trying to get support from bigcommerce on this for weeks, to no avail. Their support team is not very helpful.
Related
For one of my websites I am using Open Graph to enrich posts shared from my website. But LinkedIn is not picking the image specified in og:image. The image is modified for the LinkedIn bot to be 200px X 200px by a simple PHP script.
I found some experiencing a similar problem (Linkedin not getting thumbnail image) but this problem is not yet solved.
I know it's old but this helped.
Linkedin caches link preview content for 7 days. You have to do the following to clear Linkedin Preview cache:
Step 1: Visit https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/inspect/
Step 2: Enter your url and click on Inspect, You will see the updated preview image
Step 3: Now try sharing your url on Linkedin
You might need to check linkedin post cache and refresh it for a specific link.
https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/
This question is a bit old but I ran into the same situation and got it solved so I just post my solution( or my understanding how it work) for others have the same problem.
(Thank you for #Justin Kominar, his answer in this question helps me.)
Make sure you have prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns# in your tag, when you have iframe(s), make sure which page is calling the share function.
Make sure you set all four <meta> tags in you site and give the correct type to <meta property="og:type> (please go to ogp.me for more information)
Make sure you pass the correct url(the one you want to share, eg.https://news.com/this_news) to <meta property="og:url> especially when you use dynamic url
In the page you pass to og:url ( it is very important to understand linkedin will go to this page to look for the information not the page you call the share function, most of the time they are the same but sometimes that is not the case), you need to do step 1 and 2, set <meta og:image> AND MAKE SURE THE IMAGE LINK IS VALID AND THE IMAGE DOES EXIST
Hope it will help.
I faced with wrong image choosing by LinkedIn in my WordPress site. I found the problem by discovering URL by LinkedIn post inspector and saw that oEmbed tag was used dispite og:image tag is existed:
Does your code look like this?
<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>
Also, check the documentation here:
https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/share-on-linkedin
Also, check your URL with Facebook Linter (it works with all OG tags):
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
Adding a garbage parameter at the end of my link, helped me force linkedin to get og:image again.
I found my solution on this post
Per #checkTek's comment, LinkedIn does not support .webp images for the og:image property.
Try to 1000x425 image. It works for me.
This answer is for the people who tried all the methods described in the above answers and still got no luck !!
I had this scenario and I fixed it by renaming the og:image.
I believe image with long name can trick the linkdin to prevent the image from scraping.
before the tag was
<meta property="og:image" name="image" content="images/meta-this-is-a-very-long-name.jpg">
I fixed this issue by renaming it to a smaller name.
<meta property="og:image" name="image" content="images/meta-image.jpg">
voila.. it worked !!
Warning - i'm using JavaScript
Check step
First of all, you have to check if your website/blog have all the meta tags correctly puted on tag of your HTML document. You can do this by just puting your website link on
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug and debugging.
But if you just get the wrong image no matter what on Linkedin post inspector but not on Facebook debugger (both use open graph tags) the problem is the Linkedin. So if this you can continue here.
My problem and the solution
I have my images on AWS, so i use 2 different links, one is for the service, the other is the link of the image.
The problem with Linkedin, is that he cannot read two URLs. So you have to encode properly.
My service is somenthing like this
https://d1muf25xaso8hp.cloudfront.net/[IMAGE_URL]?options
Now, you gonna see an example. I have a function that just get this two together. Take a look:
Example:
// The service -
https://d1muf25xaso8hp.cloudfront.net/[IMAGE_URL]?options
// Function Input -
https://s3.amazonaws.com/appforest_uf/imageID/200x200.png
// Function Output -
https://d1muf25xaso8hp.cloudfront.net/https%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fappforest_uf%2Ff1643682361025x516549218825449500%2F200x200.png?w=&h=&auto=compress&dpr=1&fit=max
The function
const resizeS3Image = (s3_url) => {
let s3_clean_url = s3_url;
s3_clean_url = s3_clean_url.replace(/\//g, '%2F').replace(/\:/, '%3A');
const cloudFrontCompressedImage = `https://d1muf25xaso8hp.cloudfront.net/${s3_clean_url}?w=&h=&auto=compress&dpr=1&fit=max`;
return cloudFrontCompressedImage;
};
Things you may have notice
The second URL (the image) have some things replaced, like the slash ('/') and colon (':'), for the equivalent code on URL encode.
2 - How i did it ? using regex pattern and the .replace native JS constructor.
Tools and references that i used
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp
Remind to
When you're debuggin again your website on the Linkedin Post inspector, remind to add after the URL somenthing after '?' like https://yourwebsite/post/what-is-lorem-impsum?aaaa=912093090
That way, you gonna update the Linkedin SEO Cache.
I was using the LinkedIn Post Inspector and it wasn't finding my image. However, Facebook Debugger was showing it. Both platforms use Open Graph (OG).
In my case, the issue that was causing this to happen were spaces in the original image name (replaced in URL with +)).
This worked:
https://images.mywebsite.com/abc/name_of_image.png?auto=compress,format&rect=0,0,3600,1890&w=1200&h=630
This was failing:
https://images.mywebsite.com/abc/Name+of+Image+-+Test+-+4.png?auto=compress,format&rect=0,0,3600,1890&w=1200&h=630
For me the problem was the image size. Once I increased the size from 300px wide to 1200px wide it worked.
For LinkedIn:
The maximum file size allowed is 5MB.
The minimum image dimension should be 1200px X 627px.
https://dev.to/samuelorobosa/how-to-handle-linkedin-and-twitter-link-previews-23eg
However, the post inspector was finding smaller images around 750MB. So the true value is somewhere between 300:1200
p.s. gifs work on linkedin but are a single still frame on twitter
I'm trying to make my meteor app visible to crawlers.
I've added the Spiderable package and installed Phantom.js.
When I to go localhost:3000/?_escaped_fragment_=, it's blank.
When I view the source, it's almost empty, and it ends right before the <script> tag that loads the Google Maps API:
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/eecc60f7c55db2915697d4beb05274f355ad19e4.css">
<title></title>
<!-- Google Maps -->
</head></html>
I haven't encountered any issues with this before, but it got me thinking that maybe I shouldn't be including custom <scrpit> (or <link>) tags in the app's <head>. If this is true - what is the correct way to load external assets? If it's not related to the issue, I'd appreciate any advice.
Thanks!
In relation to your first question, I am not 100% sure about this being the cause of your problem, but to answer the second, you shouldn't be including scripts/stylesheets in the head of your Meteor application.
Meteor combines all of the client-side js, css, and html for your app, and sends it all together to the client. This means you can just include your stylesheet and scripts in your app's client folder. I would try putting your stylesheets/scripts in the correct place and removing the links in your head and see if that solves your issue.
You can find more detailed descriptions of meteor here.
I have read How to integrate Facebook's Open Graph in a Meteor application? and followed it closely, however, the og tags are still not registered):
I would just like to set several images to ensure that several thumbnails appear when u type http://bubble.meteor.com in facebook
Here are my codes:
(Updated)
<head>
...
<meta property="og:image" content="http://bubble.meteor.com/img/ogimage1.png">
<meta property="og:url" content="http://bubble.meteor.com">
<meta property="og:title" content="Emory Bubble">
</head>
Am I doing anything wrongly? Thanks!
First of all, an <html> tag does not belong inside the <head>. Meteor always uses the HTML5 doctype definition. Even if you would manage to change it to XHTML, you will probably end up with invalid XHTML, because extension packages that inject HTML assume HTML5.
Second, there is no need to declare any namespace for the OpenGraph tags. Strings like "og:title" are just opaque data inside a property and they do not affect the HTML parser.
UPDATE
I checked it using Facebook's debug page and it does not work indeed:
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
This yielded an "Error parsing input URL, no data was scraped" error.
I also checked the page using the special escaped fragment URL that should trigger the spiderable package:
http://bubble.meteor.com/?_escaped_fragment_=
The resulting page contains no HTML content and the Javascript tags were still present, suggesting that the spiderable package does not work. Did you add that one to your project? (meteor add spiderable).
If you added it, it does not work. The spiderable package returns the normal page if running PhantomJS fails. You should check it on your local development version, use the above URL to trigger spiderable.
I also noticed that you are using 'school' as og:type, which is not a valid type as far as I know. Try 'website' instead.
UPDATE 2
Also checkout this screencast by Chris Mather about the spiderable package:
http://www.eventedmind.com/posts/meteor-the-spiderable-package
In this screencast he mentions a potential problem with subscriptions that are never marked as ready and make the spiderable package fail. Maybe this is causing your issues?
I have a website http://gornany.org/home/GammaGallery/1390?id=0
i want to show the image on Facebook profile which the user write a comment about, i want to change this code using JavaScript
<meta property="og:image" content="" />
i tried a lot of things like
$("meta[property='og\\\\\\\\:image']").attr("content","");
$('meta[property="og:image"]').attr('content',"" );
but nothing work
Any help?
I dont think you can do that. Javascript is a client-side language so when Facebook reads the og:image meta tag the javascript code hasn't run yet. Hence, Facebook requests the page from the server and it will not be able to find the updated tags.
Check the debugger if you need to test this: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
EDIT: But if in fact that was gonna work I think you need to escape your tag like:
$("meta[property='og\\:image']").attr("content", "");
I'm attempting to add a LinkedIn Share button to our content-driven website. I've generated the embed code using the button builder, but whenever I try to actually use the button, I get a generic error:
There was a problem performing this action, please try again later.
It's been doing this for several days (since I first added the code), so I don't know if the error is on the LinkedIn side or mine. Is there any way to get a more specific error message? The code they provide is just a script tag that you paste in:
<script src="http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="IN/Share"></script>
Unfortunately LinkedIn's "support" forums are limited to the various API's; there's nowhere available to submit a question regarding the build-a-button functionality. I'm hoping someone else has used this function and can point me in the right direction.
Most likely the page you are trying to share is not web accessible (local, under htaccess password or something). It looks to me like LinkedIn tries to actually look at the page you are sharing, and if it can't reach it, it gives you this message.
Most likely the url which you are sharing is not encoded, try encoding that, also follow this article for more.
The easiest way to ensure the linkedin share button works properly, is to use
<!DOCTYPE html>
instead of other alternatives.
look at the data-url attrbute. Remove the "http://" and only use "www." for your website url. That fixed my issue at least.
I found this way for validate in xhtml:
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+RDFa 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd">
< script src="http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js" type="text/javascript">< /script>
< div id="linkedin">< /div>
< script type="text/javascript">
var po2 = document.createElement('script');
po2.type = 'IN/MemberProfile';
po2.setAttribute("data-id","http://www.linkedin.com/pub/luca-di-lenardo/11/4b7/3b8");
po2.setAttribute("data-format","hover");
po2.setAttribute("data-text","Luca Di Lenardo");
document.getElementById("linkedin").appendChild(po2);
< /script>
Remove the white space and it works!
If anyone is getting this error, and cannot figure out why, I recommend checking the URL of the page you're sharing with: LinkedIn Post Inspector.
So, for instance, if I were to check out how wikipedia.org looks when shared, I would visit and enter that URL, like so...
https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/inspect/https:%2F%2Fwww.wikipedia.org%2F
And I see...
But there's a ton of information here, showing how everything is parsed, from the description to the title to the image selection for thumbnail display...
Warning: Add an og:image tag to the page to have control over the content's image on LinkedIn.
Title: Wikipedia
Type: Article
Image: No image found
Description: Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Author: No author found
Publish date: 6/1/2020, 6:39:59 AM
They even give you instructions on how to fix your page! Hey, got some advice for Wikipedia.org here!
Provide a metadata tag for the og:image in the page's head section. For example:
<meta name="image" property="og:image" content="[Image URL here]">