I'm building a share system for a website, using facebook like & addthis.
Example,
member_ID 177 shares a product page "http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&member_ID=177",
someone click through the link and the page registers "member_ID=177" as the "referrer" for the item, to receive rewards.
if so, every members' page "http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&member_ID=..." will be different. And share cannot compound.
Using canonical url doesn't seem to help, as I still need to pass "member_ID=177".
Basically, What I want to achieve is share
"http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&member_ID=177",
but compound the "likes" & "share" numbers on
"http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish"
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish"/>
<meta property='og:url' content='https://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish' />
Is it possible? If so, how? If not, any suggestions on alternatives?
Thanks in Advance!
You have to add the &member_ID=177 to the og:url tag, and the rel='canonical' tags for this to work. If you don't Facebook will aggregate all the different member ids as though they were one URL.
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I've build my site with Weebly, but there's a problem when I tried to connect my website comment with FB comments. I was unable to solve for a long time, hope any expert can give me some advice. truly appreciate!
sample blog post: http://www.lifechem.tw/blog/170202
the og:url is:
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.lifechem.tw/1/post/2017/02/170202.html" />
but the default Weebly FB comment tool is for http://www.lifechem.tw/blog/170202 instead of the current og:url
I've tried as other posts suggested
<script>document.write('<div class="fb-comments" data-href="' + document.location.href + '" data-numposts="7"></div>');</script>
but the result was the same as default Weebly tool.
I'd like to add a site-wide code into the blog footer that can copy the og:url in different blog posts.
truly appreciate!!
The location under which this content is shown in the browser is different than your og:url, so only setting that is likely not going to solve it.
But you can easily select the meta element with that property attribute value, and get the content using something like this:
document.querySelector('meta[property="og:url"]').content
(If you need support for older browsers that do not support querySelector, you could use a library like jQuery instead, or any other that support the attribute selector.)
I've literally looked everywhere and cannot figure out how to find someones userid that I can use inside their embed code. Anyone know how to find it out?
Tim's project seems to be broken. Figured I'd just copy and paste the solution here. Thanks subZero!
curl -v 'http://api.soundcloud.com/resolve.json?url=http://soundcloud.com/YOUR_USER_NAME&client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID'
Simply take a look into the source head section.
<meta property="twitter:app:url:googleplay" content="soundcloud://users:IDHERE">
<meta property="twitter:app:url:iphone" content="soundcloud://users:IDHERE">
<meta property="twitter:app:url:ipad" content="soundcloud://users:IDHERE">
<meta property="twitter:player" content="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fusers%2FIDHERE&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true&visual=true&origin=twitter">
and several other meta tags ...
Check out What is my SoundCloud user_id? from timpietrusky:
http://timpietrusky.github.io/what-is-my-soundcloud-user-id/
If you want the user id of another user, you need to have their permalink (containing the username). Then you can use the /resolve endpoint from the API to get their data, including the id
Learn more on /resolve in the documentation
If you have the soundcloud user name and just need to find the id (i used it to get the RSS feed for another user): Go to the soundcloud page (eg: https://soundcloud.com/50_cent), right click and view source, look for the id (eg: soundcloud://users:1548017). That's your user id: 548017
Update:
First of all, use documentation Reference /resolve for up to date solution.
http://api.soundcloud.com/resolve?url=http://soundcloud.com/USER_NAME&client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID
Replace USER_NAME with user name from regular SoundCloud link like https://soundcloud.com/USER_NAME, and you app's client ID.
Note, there is no .json in /resolve anymore.
I have a page of products on my website with a share button on each, now how can I tell facebook to automatically select the title and image of the product shared rather than the whole page.
A link to my site
The site is written using php on smarty type script with tpl files,
ps i dont really know php very well.
Thanks in advance :)
A server side scripting language would be the easiest:
in php you could share the page + an extra variable , then if your page detects this variable you can set specific meta data.
http://www.fancydressclothing.net/categories/49/1950s-Costumes.php?product=1
And in php fetch the correct data for product 1 and set the meta data:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/
You should use a canonical URL for each product which will help in two ways. One with the facebook linter getting the correct og tags. And two, helping your SEO rankings too.
I am trying to find a way to embed a share/+1 link for Google+ in a Newsletter, much like the Facebook share and tweeter tweet links can be embedded in a newsletter, which can be achieved with the following two urls:
https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=[URL]&t=[TEXT]
http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?source=sharethiscom&text=[TEXT]&url=[URL]
Is there a similar functionality available for Google Plus?
All I could find on my own, is the Google+ button, which unfortunately uses JavaScript and thus it cannot be used in an email newsletter. I would expect Google to provide a static url fallback, but I cannot find it anywhere.
https://plus.google.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com
You can share the link on Google+ with the official Google+ share link.
Replace the url parameter with the URL encoded link you want to share.
This one works fine for me :
https://plus.google.com/share?url=your-page-url
The share link allows you to do this. It will work in an email, but it's not quite the same as the +1 button.
To use the share link, add a link element to your email that complies with the Google+ Buttons policy. Set the href attribute to https://plus.google.com/share?url={url encoded share target}
For example, linking to https://plus.google.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com will allow you to share example.com on Google+: (yes, that is a working demo).
Check out the official docs for more info.
If you use this approach please be aware of the fact that it is not a direct replacement for the +1 button. The link shares the target URL on Google+, but it does not actually +1 the target page. Only the +1 button can +1 a page.
Solution for those who needs custom title, description and image. You should make following changes to target URL:
Step1. add itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/LocalBusiness" into <html> tag. It will look like <html itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/LocalBusiness">. More itemtypes here
Step2. Place the follwing meta tags into <head>, change content attributes according your needs:
<meta itemprop="name" content="{Custom title goes here}">
<meta itemprop="description" content="{Custom description goes here}">
<meta itemprop="image" content="{http://www.your_url.com/your_image.png}">
Step3. Add the following link to your newsletter or anywhere you want:
Share it
Tip. To check how google sees your page, you can use this tool http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets. Probably you'll be interested in section Extracted rich snippet data from the page
Good luck, Lauris
I'm using the following.. :)
https://m.google.com/app/plus/x/?v=compose&content=[TEXT]%20[URL]
I personally suggest Google Plus Interactive Posts button
https://developers.google.com/+/web/share/interactive
to use in your apps/websites.Here Google Plus allows many customizations to do according to the requirement. I have used it in my app. Its a better option than Share button.
Maybe this helps. It works (partially) for me.
http://www.stateofsearch.com/share-on-google-plus-any-website/
There has got to be a way to do this by hacking the +1 script.
If you are interested in just changing the apperance you should download and modify this to suit your requirements.
Then, add this to your css:
.Uu .KF {
background: url("your-replacement-image") no-repeat scroll -132px -21px transparent !important;
}
to override the Google icons. However, this is probably very unstable and subject to change.
When someone posts a link on facebook, a script usually scans that link for any images, and displays a quick thumbnail next to the post. For certain URLs though (including mine), FB doesn't seem to pick up anything, despite their being a number of images on that page.
I read up that FB prefers the "image_src" rel tag for the image the user wishes to specify, but this does not generate that thumbnail either for my site.
My url goes directly to the DNS, and is not forwarded, so I don't imagine that could be the problem either.
Does anyone have an idea as to why FB can't generate any thumbnails from my site?
The easiest way is just a link tag:
<link rel="image_src" href="http://stackoverflow.com/images/logo.gif" />
But there are some other things you can add to your site to make it more Social media friendly:
Open Graph Tags
Open Graph tags are tags that you add to the <head> of your website to describe the entity your page represents, whether it is a band, restaurant, blog, or something else.
An Open Graph tag looks like this:
<meta property="og:tag name" content="tag value"/>
If you use Open Graph tags, the following six are required:
og:title - The title of the entity.
og:type - The type of entity. You must select a type from the list of Open Graph types.
og:image - The URL to an image that represents the entity. Images must be at least 50 pixels by 50 pixels. Square images work best, but you are allowed to use images up to three times as wide as they are tall.
og:url - The canonical, permanent URL of the page representing the entity. When you use Open Graph tags, the Like button posts a link to the og:url instead of the URL in the Like button code.
og:site_name - A human-readable name for your site, e.g., "IMDb".
fb:admins or fb:app_id - A comma-separated list of either the Facebook IDs of page administrators or a Facebook Platform application ID. At a minimum, include only your own Facebook ID.
More information on Open Graph tags and details on Administering your page can be found on the Open Graph protocol documentation.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like
I know this question is old, but I recently dealt with the exact same problem and went round and round on it for a couple weeks. Multiple searches on Google turned up a lot of useful information, but most of it was focused on Open Graph tags, which I wasn't interested in using. Turns out my site had multiple issues, but here are some of the basics.
As EightyEight said, make sure your HTML is valid - and the same goes for your javascript and server-side code (PHP, ASP, etc.). I had a small PHP error in a piece of code that was executing as a separate call to the server from the main page. Due to a number of bizarre coincidences, that code was generating a 500 error - but ONLY for IE6 and strict parsing engines like the W3C validator and the Facebook page crawler. The problem didn't appear in modern browsers (Chrome 4, FF 3.5, IE 8, etc) so I didn't see it right away, but older/stricter clients were showing the 500 every time and that was the main reason FB wasn't crawling our page (when everything else seemed to be correct).
Regarding Randy's response, he's correct that Facebook will keep an old cached copy of your page long after you've updated it. FB claims it's only held for 24 hours, but I experienced much longer times than that. FORTUNATELY, FB has released their "URL Linter" tool that will show you a preview of how your page will appear when being shared on FB, and it will force FB to instantly update its cache of your page. This was a lifesaving tool. You can find it at http://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/
Regarding the URL Linter tool, be aware that each variation of a URL is cached separately on Facebook, so "www.example.com" is not the same as "example.com". Also, unique capitalization is stored as well, so "ExampleOne.com" is not the same as "exampleone.com". (This led to a lot of confusion between my client and myself when it appeared to me that the cache had been updated just fine and the client claimed they weren't seeing the updates. Turns out I was looking at exampleone.com and had used Linter to update the cache, but they were looking at exampleOne.com which I hadn't submitted to Linter. As a result, I ended up submitting quite a few variations of the URL to Linter just to cover the bases.)
WyrdNEXUS's advice to use the image_src link tag is spot-on. This allows you to be sure that FB is scraping the best possible image for your page. There are some varying guidelines out there about what specs the image file should have, but I've successfully used a 128px square image and have seen a 130x97 image make it through as well. Here is Facebook's official documentation from http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/:
Images must be at least 50 pixels by 50 pixels. Square images work best, but you are allowed to use images up to three times as wide as they are tall.
Obviously, FB will resize a large image for you, but you'll almost always get better results if you resize it yourself beforehand.
Regarding Mike Cooper's link to the eHow article, avoid using step #1 in that article. It was valid advice when the article was written and when Mike posted the link, but it's now better to use the URL Linter tool for previewing how your page will appear when being shared. By using Linter, you won't cause FB to cache a (potentially) bad copy of the page before you get a chance to tweak it.
Use the facebook lintter available here. http://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/
This will check your link and re fetch any images. this also clears any old cache.
Or try this - https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
To change Title, Description and Image, we need to add some meta tags under head tag.
STEP 1 :
Add meta tags under head tag
<html>
<head>
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.test.com/" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.test.com/img/fb-logo.png" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Prepaid Phone Cards, low rates for International calls with Lucky Prepay" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Cheap prepaid Phone Cards. Low rates for international calls anywhere in the world." />
NEXT STEP :
Click on below link
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
Add your URL in text box (e.g http://www.test.com/) where you mentioned the tags. Click on DEBUG button.
Its done.
You can verify here https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://www.test.com/
In above url, u = your website link
ENJOY !!!!
try this: http://www.ehow.com/how_4938148_thumbnail-show-up-facebook-share.html
Is the site's HTML valid? Run it through w3c validation service.
Actually, if you've already tried linking that page on Facebook BEFORE adding the "image_src" link, Facebook will keep using the old cached copy and not even see your changes. Try modifying the URL by removing or adding the 'www', or duplicate your page to test it.
I've noticed that Facebook does not take thumbnails from websites if they start with https, is that maybe your case?
had the same problem and figured out that my head closing tag was in the wrong place
Old question but recently I seemed to be running into same issue with thumbnail images from my link not showing in status updates on Facebook. I post for many clients and this is relatively new.
FB doesn't seem to like long URLs anymore — if you use a URL shortener such as goo.gl or bitly.com, the thumbnail from your link/post will appear in your FB update.
Try using something like this:
<link rel="image_src" href="http://yoursite.com/graphics/yourimage.jpg" /link>`
Seems to work just fine on Firefox as long as you use a full path to your image.
Trouble is it get vertically offset downward for some reason. Image is 200 x 200 as recommended somewhere I read.
If you used any plugin for seo then Check 1st your seo plugin settings.Then find out Noindex setting if Enable Media for Noindex then disable it.