Reference: Facebook Meta tags

Summary

Including and customing the facebook Meta inside every page of your website is an important reality in today web. It’s a very easy task to setup, one that must be done quickly as possible.

When a page is being shared on facebook, the details for this page are auto-generated by facebook unless specified by the Facebook Meta Tags in the Header of the HTML page.

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Facebook debugger

During, and after any change, you can test and update Facebook cache with this tool.
You’ll find Facebook Debugger very handy.

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Meta tags

You should include those meta in each one of your pages, custom them, and revise on the debugger platform to satisfy your needs.

<head>
<title>Subscribe | ITekBlog</title>
<!-- Basic Meta -->
<meta property="og:title" content="Example Post" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.itekblog.com/subscribe" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://itekblog.com/...image.png" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Simple description." />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="ITekBlog" />
<!-- Optional Meta -->
<meta property="og:determiner" content="the" />
<meta property="og:locale" content="en_GB" />
<meta property="og:locale:alternate" content="fr_FR" />
<meta property="og:locale:alternate" content="es_ES" />
<!-- Correct way to add og:image -->
<meta property="og:image" content="http://itekblog.com/example.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image:secure_url" content="https://secure.itekblog.com/example.jpg" />
<meta property="og:image:type" content="image/jpeg" />
<meta property="og:image:width" content="500" />
<meta property="og:image:height" content="500" />
<!-- Correct way to add og:video -->
<meta property="og:video" content="http://itekblog.com/movie.swf" />
<meta property="og:video:secure_url" content="https://secure.itekblog.com/movie.swf" />
<meta property="og:video:type" content="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
<meta property="og:video:width" content="320" />
<meta property="og:video:height" content="200" />
...

Note: You can add more then one og:image per page and let the user choose, but be noted: i’ve experienced and searched a LOT on the subject, and It’s still unclear to me which image facebook will choose for default on share. If someone knows, leave a comment 🙂

Read more…

You can read in details in the Open Graph Protocol web page

 

That’s it.

 

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