I recently added a share button on all of the artwork on my site, so that people viewing the artwork can easily share it on Facebook. The share button works in that the FB link does take the user to the correct artwork (url is correct). However, the image in the link is always an ugly clip out of the center of my logo banner (same image on every page on the site) and the og:xxx meta tags on my page seem to have absolutely no effect in customizing the link as Facebook claims they should. Here's the head section of one of my pages:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:og="https://ogp.me/ns#" xmlns:fb="https://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stitzart.css" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,minimum-scale=1.0" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="keywords" content="art, acrylic, flip, pour, artwork, colorful, dirty cup" />
<meta name="description" content="Hilda Stitz Art Gallery featuring dirty cup pours in acrylic." />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.stitzweb.com/art/art.php?id=18" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:title" content="StitzArt - #033" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Little Planet" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.stitzweb.com/art/images/share018.png" />
<title>StitzArt - Hilda Stitz Artwork</title>
</head>
and the share button on that page pulls up this dialog:
Facebook Share Dialog (with incorrect information)
How can I make the pic, title and description in the share dialog match what's in the meta data? I've searched all day and I've almost given up. The feature works for sharing, but it would be so much better if people could see a preview of the artwork before clicking on the link. Thanks in advance for any help you might offer.
here is the image
anyone know? what's the problem
here are the tags i m using in html.
<meta property="og:type" content="product" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Deft Multi-concept Coming Soon Template" />
<meta property="og:description" content=" build you online presense righ now with a beautiful coming soon tempalte." />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.coderare.com/deft-coming-soon-template.html"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Coderare" />
<meta property="og:price:amount" content="12.00" />
<meta property="og:price:currency" content="USD" />
<meta property="og:availability" content="instock" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.coderare.com/img/5.png" />
and when ever i'm tring to validate my page it shows "Something went wrong on our end" what's that?
According to the pinterest documentation the product tags you have used are not the ones pinterest supports. Instead use product:price:amount product:price:currency
You might also want to include structured data from http://schema.org for information not included in the pinterest product tags, eg In Stock.
Stackoverflow's help section has further information on debugging steps that will help you narrow down problems to the exact lines that cause the errors.
when I send some URL to someone via Viber the Viber load the URL and displays image representing the HTML page.
How to tell the HTML page what image it should be?
You should use Open Graph protocol. You can simply add this snippet to your page <head>:
<meta property="og:type" content="website">
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Название сайта">
<meta property="og:title" content="Заголовок">
<meta property="og:description" content="Описание.">
<meta property="og:url" content="http://example.com/page.html">
<meta property="og:locale" content="ru_RU">
<meta property="og:image" content="http://example.com/img.jpg">
<meta property="og:image:width" content="968">
<meta property="og:image:height" content="504">
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Заголовок">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Описание.">
<meta name="twitter:image:src" content="http://example.com/img.jpg">
<meta name="twitter:url" content="http://example.com/page.html">
<meta name="twitter:domain" content="example.com">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="#">
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="#...">
Image size should be 968x504px. Read more here
Cheers!
I believe that Viber takes the first picture it finds from your website (backgrounds not included!). I have made some tests and have found out that if you place an image in a comment section at the top of your HTML - <!-- <img src='myImg.jpg'/>--> - it will also accept it as a first image file in your source code. Thus you can put whatever image you like.
From my test, Viber successfully got first jpg/png image on page with size less than 40Kb.
Even you can hide it with display: none if it is not really shown image in browser, just for Viber preview.
For Viber, Facebook and others, you need to place the following tags on the main page (in the header) of the site:
<meta property = "og:type" content = "website" /> <!-- For website -->
<meta property = "og:title" content = "Your_title" />
<meta property = "og:url" content = "https://your_site_url.com/" />
<meta property = "og:description" content = "Your_short_description" />
<meta property = "og:image" content = "https://your_site_url.com/your_image.jpg" />
<meta property = "og:site_name" content = "Your_site_name" />
NOTE: I don't think Viber supports the http image protocol for og:image property. Only https.
For those who do not have https protocols on server side, I suggest that the images be hosted on other https sites (such as imgur.com), and only insert a direct link to the image in og:image tag.
THE PROBLEM:
I am trying, without much success, to implement open graph image on site: http://www.guarenty-group.com/cz/
The homepage is completeply bypassing the og:image tag, where internal pages are reading all images from the site and place og:image as the last option.
Other social networks are working fine on both internal pages and homepage.
THE CONFIGURATION:
I have no share buttons or alike, all I want is to be able to share the link via my profile.
The image is well over 300x300px: http://guarenty-group.com/img/gg_seal.png
Here is how my head tag looks like:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Guarenty Group : Pojištění pro nájemce a pronajímatelé</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="Guarenty Group pojišťuje příjem z nájmu pronajímatelům, kauci nájemcům - aby nemuseli platit velkou částku v hotovostí předem - a dále nájemcům pojišťuje příjmy, aby měli na nájem při nemoci, úrazu či nezaměstnání." />
<meta name="image_src" content="http://guarenty-group.com/img/gg_seal.png" />
<meta name="image_url" content="http://guarenty-group.com/img/gg_seal.png" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Pojištění pro nájemce a pronajímatelé" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://guarenty-group.com/cz/" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://guarenty-group.com/img/gg_seal.png" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Guarenty Group pojišťuje příjem z nájmu pronajímatelům, kauci nájemcům - aby nemuseli platit velkou částku v hotovostí předem - a dále nájemcům pojišťuje příjmy, aby měli na nájem při nemoci, úrazu či nezaměstnání [...]" />
...
</head>
THE TESTING RESULTS:
In order to trick the cache i have tested the site with http://www.guarenty-group.com/cz/?try=N, where I have changed the N every time. The strange thing is that images found for different value of N is different. Sometimes there is no image, sometimes there is 1, 2 or 3 images, but each time there is a different set of images.
But, in any case I could not find the image specified in the og:graph!
MY QUESTIONS:
https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/setting-display-tags-shares is saying one thing, and the personnel on the support forum is saying "over 300" Does anyone know What is the official minimum dimension of the image (both w and h)?
Can an image be too large?
Should I use the xmlns, should I not use xmlns or it doesn't matter?
What are the maximum (and minimum) lengths for og:title and og:description tags?
Any other suggestion is of course welcomed :)
Thanks in advance, cheers~
This answer I found on LinkedIn forums might be of help to you:
Guys, I've spent a whole day trying different things. What worked for
me is using the mata [sic] tags as following:
<meta prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#" property="og:title" content="{Your content}" />
<meta prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#" property="og:type" content="{Your content}" />
<meta prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#" property="og:image" content="{Your content}" />
<meta prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#" property="og:url" content="{Your content}" />
Just try to add prefix to every tag (not to html tag), then re-sign in
with your LI account to clear the cache...
Post your results.
I found this simple fix which worked for me after lots of complicated solutions which didn't work:
LinkedIn
The only way to “clear” the sharing preview cache for LinkedIn is to trick LinkedIn into thinking your page is a different (and new) page.
This is done by adding a made-up parameter to the link. It doesn’t affect your webpage, but it does force the metadata to be re-fetched.
Example:
Original link: //beantin.se/consultant-resume
"New" link: //beantin.se/consultant-resume?1
I was having the same issue last night. Spent hours researching solutions and I tried the solutions recommended by others in this post but to no avail. Finally I contacted LinkedIn about this issue and they responded right away. Their development team has implemented a new tool called "Post Inspector", which allows you to optimize content sharing. Literally, in just minutes this actually worked.
All you have to do is type in your URL and they do all the busy work i.e. verifying correct code of properties such as image, author, title, description, publication date etc. Not only do they verify, they also tell you what code to include, what is missing, and how to fix it.
Here is the website to use Post Inspector:
https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/
LinkedIn is also caching previews. If OpenGraph image was incorrectly cached at some point before, try defeating the cache with a query parameter on a shared link, e.g. https://your-website.com/?1.
Just a little late lol,
But I came across this exact issue, figured out that linkedIn was pulling the meta tags from the final landing page.
My website that i was trying to link to had an instant redirect, adding the og tags to the page where it was redirected to fixed the issue.
Make sure your og: tags are part of the head tag.
I ran into this recently, spent a huge amount of time working on it with all the types of solutions above. I was working with someone else's HTML and finally figured out that the html was simply missing the head tag, while it did have the closing tag for head.
Linked In is apparently not scanning page text for the og tags, but processing the page dom, and if the dom objects aren't properly coded, they won't process. If you have issues with unmatched tags or unclosed tags, this could be your issue if everything else is not working.
I did not need to add prefix to the meta tags or add og image height and width tags once the html was fixed. Linked In processed it fine once the html was fixed.
If you don’t want to add a fake query string parameter to your LinkedIn URLs—as suggested in e.g., #Kym's answer—a simple solution is just to sign out and then sign back in.
For me solution was to put all the <meta> tags (without prefix) inside <head> tag.
For other social networks like Facebook, Twitter or Google you don't even need to have <head> tag. (because it it optional in HTML5 specs)
PS. There is a new nice way for testing <meta> tags on your website: https://metatags.io/
After researching for a day, I found that meta tag with attribute property should be used instead of name.
<!doctype html>
<html prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#">
<head>
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
...
Ref: https://ogp.me/
In my case I did exactly this and it worked fine (on my page of course).
Put these four lines in the head:
<title> aanalytics </title>
<meta data-react-helmet="true" property="og:image" content="/photos/s5.jpg">
<meta data-react-helmet="true" property="og:type" content="website">
<meta data-react-helmet="true" property="og:url" content="https://www.aanalytics.de">
BUT, pay attention that if you have more than one head in your page, these lines need to be inserted in the first head otherwise it will not work.
I also had prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#” in the html
I got it finally working by adding the full image path:
<meta name="image" property="og:image" content="https://hasan.life/images/preview.png">
This is worked for me.
Somehow this problem happens if you don't set your open graph tags properly.
Instead of this:
<meta name="image" property="og:image" content="{content}" />
Try this:
<meta name="image" property="og:image" content="{content}" />
<meta property="og:image:secure_url" content="{content}" />
<meta property="og:image:width" content="640" />
<meta property="og:image:height" content="442" />
I've tried for more than half an hour and I found this one which worked 100% correctly
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a521928/making-your-website-shareable-on-linkedin?lang=en
• You can also check your Open graph credentials on https://www.opengraph.xyz/
<meta name="title" property="og:title" content="Enter your title here">
<meta property="og:type" content="Enter any tyoe like Article or Website">
<meta name="description" property="og:description" content="Enter description here">
<meta name="image" property="og:image" content="Enter image URL here">
<meta property='og:url' content='Enter website URL here'/>
I'm using Facebooks' Open Graph protocol :
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Here's code for a test page. My understanding is that when someone "likes" this, the image icon that placed in the post on their
page should be the one specified in og:image, and the linkable url in the post should be the one specified in og:url.
In reality, it seems to truncate the URL to the domain, and instead of using the image provided it picks one seemingly at random (my guess is it's just taking the first image it sees from a scan or specified elsewhere in the code).
Am I doing anything obviously wrong here?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>My Site</title>
<meta property="og:title" content="My Site Title" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.mysite.org/videos/index/16922653" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/104/367/104367616_200.jpg" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="My Site" />
<meta property="og:app_id" content="5555555555" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link rel="image_src" href="http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/104/367/104367616_200.jpg" />
</head>
<body>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script>
<fb:like href="http://www.mysite.org/videos/index/16922653" show_faces="false" width="450" />
</body>
</html>
Update: #echese
Good suggestion. Ran it, got this feedback from the "debug" section:
Data Source "website" extracted from <meta property="og:type" />
Data Source "My Site Title" extracted from <meta property="og:title" />
Data Source "http://www.mysite.org/videos/index/16922653" extracted from <meta property="og:url" />
Data Source Extracted 1 values from <meta property="og:image" />: http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/104/367/104367616_200.jpg
Data Source "My Site" extracted from <meta property="og:site_name" />
Looks like it understands the image url. It suggested some iframe code which I tried but still no dice, I don't get the image I specify.
Try running the URL Linter to see if you can find any errors on your pages.
hmm maybe (maaaaaaybe) it's because you dont have the og namespace on the html tag..
or.. maybe because the image's url is on a different domain than your page?
good luck