I've updated my Meta Description in WordPress (using SEO by Yoast), but Facebook continues to use old data. This is after using the debugger. Any suggestions?
If you are referring to the OpenGraph tags, once facebook scans a value and logs it you can't update it without changing the values. I ran into a similar issue before. If you Google search some you'll find explanations from Facebook Support on the matter.
Even running the 'Scrape new data' or whatever the action is it will inform you that you are trying to change xxxxxx value. After my research I ended up changing the meta property value with an extension on the url and Facebook scraped the data and updated it correctly. However all of the page likes were lost in this process.
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So this is a little bit odd, I have a website that trawls facebook looking at specific pages and requesting data from them.
As part of this I request the picture object of the page: http://graph.facebook.com/285361880228/picture
This returns a question mark instead of the page profile picture.
Other links to pages seem to work without a problem.
http://graph.facebook.com/1485760851674064/picture
Does anyone know what may be causing this?
I am currently using version 2.3 of the API.
I'm assuming it has something to do with the page setup, as according to the facebook documentation,I should be able to read this.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.3/page/picture/
It seems like the facebook page has not been published. Try publishing the page and access the image using same link. It will work.
Facebook LIKE/SHARE functions are generally not working on my wordpress blog. I cannot LIKE or SHARE any new posts, but oddly if I have already LIKED a page, the SHARE function works fine.
The problem with SHARE is that the normal sharing window pops up, but there is no metadata populated in it. I've looked at the metadata in my blog posts and as best I can tell it is populated correctly by Wordpress. Additionally, I cannot find any differences in the metadata or code between posts that I have previously LIKED and ones that I have have not.
I've tried running the FB debugger/linter for a number of posts on my site and each one returns the message:
Error Linting URL: An internal error occurred while linting the URL.
I've tried googling this error, but cannot find any useful advice on what might be causing it.
Here is a sample post for people to examine this problem:
http://erb.kingdomnow.org/michael-pollan-talks-about-his-new-book-cooked-video/
Thanks...
You should use Open Graph tags (see "Use proper Open Graph tags and large images to generate great previews" and "Using Self-Hosted Objects") in the header of your webpages to help Facebook determine what metadata needs to be shared.
Since you are using WordPress, you could either edit the template file in your theme that defines page headers (normally header.php) or use Facebook's official plugin.
I have created my website using wordpress 3.4.1 and, I tried sharing my webpage in facebook. I do not get any thumbnail or the basic blog description in the facebook post. Instead I get "No Title". I know this question has been asked a number of times in wordpress forums. But, most of them are leading to dead ends. Can some one help me in this regard.
PS: I tried using the facebook debugger (http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug) I get the following
Error Parsing URL: Error parsing input URL, no data was scraped.
You need to add OpenGraph tags to your page, or even easier, finf a WordPress plugin to do it for you. Run the page through the debugger again and the issues should be fixed.
Just like what Niraj said you need to make sure you have the open graph meta tags on your blog. Here is a plugin which will add them http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-open-graph-meta/.
The Documentation from facebook isn't understandable, atleast for me.
I have never worked before with facebook and had a basic requirement of putting a like button on Product pages.
So yesterday, I added the OpenGraph meta tags and like button to my Product pages as stated in this documentation, https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/. I also created an app, as the document stated that it has extended the basic meta data to add a required field to connect your webpage with Facebook: fb:app_id.
The like button has been set but i have few queries which are as following :-
For some pages, the like button doesn't read the og tags. Rather than publishing the whole thing in a story manner by reading og tags, it just shows a link. During googling, I read it happens because of facebook caching and since, I shared the link on facebook before putting the meta-tags, this is happening. So, Is there any way that I can direct facebook to reset all the caching for my pages or scraping that it has done earlier.
Though I have created the App, I actually have no idea what to do with it. Why is it needed and what matters it can help me with.
I tested one of my URLs here: Facebook Linter but it shows some error and stuff which i can't understand. Below is the image. Please tell if I have done anything wrong and why it's showing these errors
Documentation for OpenGraph on Facebook containing outdated information about pre-defined types, see OpenGraph Types. You probably need to define your custom Object Type "Product" in for your Application/Site using Developer Application in Open Graph settings.
You may want to read Documentation for OpenGraph beta too.
Update:
There is a similar question about exactly this og:type: Opengraph meta tag og:type set to “product” errors (like button & URL linter/debug)
I'm currently using Drupal 6 with a special content type template for all blog posts. At the moment we're not using OG tags but I have it pull the main metadata with content-type, title, image, and description tags and it was working just fine until today.
Despite at least the last 3 posts still displaying properly in URL Linter, the newest for today won't pull any of the metadata. A few other ones I tested at random from the archive aren't pulling information properly either, but the majority are still working.
What would cause a discrepancy in Facebook's URL Linter between pages using the same template?
What is the url? Are the tags in the header? Are you able to test switching to their new OG open graph tags? Facebook has been known to deprecate old functionality with little to no warning - and perhaps the old url's are working still because Facebook has already cached the data. It looks like a lot of people are having this same issue - and I am assuming Facebook will fix it soon if it isn't already fixed.