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.
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I've tried to find a direct link to a check-in box in facebook.
This is the code that I found, on https://touch.facebook.com/Scoutsgroep.VZW.De.zwaluw/, I have tried to put the code on a website (wordpress) but that doesn't create a direct link to check*in on the page.
<a class="_55i1 _58a0 touchable" data-store="{"action":"\/page\/checkin\/?id=315057520648","inputname":"status","targetid":1093893470,"pagename":"Scoutsgroep VZW de zwaluw","pageid":315057520648,"placeholder":"What are you doing?","composertitle":"Check In","pinplace":true,"forceasync":true,"log_data":{"under_more_button":true,"page_id":315057520648,"source":null,"referrer":null,"platform":"mtouch"},"event_name":"tapped_check_in","module_name":"pages_public_view","nativeClick":true}" href="#" role="button" data-sigil="touchable touchable page_checkin m-pages-log-event"><span class="_55sr">Check In</span></a>
Later on I would like to use the created link to make a qr-code that automaticaly checks-in to the facebook page
As far as I know, there's no direct link for a check in. Facebook doesn't want people accidentally / maliciously being checked in to a place.
I suggest that you use the URL you have, put it into a QR code and let the user decide whether they want to check in.
I am trying to create a Facebook share option for my blog articles, and it works but it doesn't take the article text or image, but the first image and text on the (single page) website. How can I change my share code so that it will use the article's image and text from where I click the FB share button?
This is the template for the blog article, with the FB share code included:
<div class="contentLeft">
<div class="roundimage">
<a href="[[+roundImage:phpthumbof=`h=750&zc=1`]]" class="colorbox" title="[[+roundImageCaption]]"><img class="round"
src="[[+roundImage:phpthumbof=`w=170&h=170&zc=1&q=95`]]" alt="[[+roundImageCaption]]" /></a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">function fbs_click() {u=location.href;t=document.title;window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(u)+'&t='+encodeURIComponent(t),'sharer','toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436');return false;}</script>
<h4 class="blue" style="margin-bottom:10px; margin-top:0;">[[+articleHeadline]]</h4>
<p class="datetext">[[+datetimeText]]</p>
<p class="readmoretext">[[+articleText]]</p>
<div class="divider"></div>
</div>
I hope you can help! Thank you!
It should be enough to make sure that the article page, ie the link that you are sharing, embeds the correct og:image and og:description. You only share the link with the share button, and facebook will embed the link and look in it for the proper data.
Update:
I guess you're not using the articles package to create the blog? If you are you already have individual pages even if you're not using them =) If you're not i assume you're using some sort of resource loop to create your entries.
After looking around in the facebook docs it seems you can specify the image (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/using-actions/v2.0#params) when creating your share button using the javascript sdk (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/reference/share-dialog). Each article will need to call something like this instead of the current javascript share url functionality.
FB.ui({
method: 'share_open_graph',
action_type: 'og.likes',
action_properties: JSON.stringify({
image: "YourImageForThisRespectiveShare",
})
}, function(response){});
If you prefer to explore the method i mentioned in the comments it would go something like this:
Look in your code at u=location.href;, you'd want to try modifying that to u=location.href+'?articleid=[~[*id*]~]';. When you share you should hopefully see the appended article ID for each article.
You'll then need to make sure you can specify og:image and description for each article, i assume you somehow have resources set up that represent each article, in that case just create a couple of template variables for that resource type.
In your header you could then use the getResourceField package for example to retrieve the correct TV from the correct resource, as specified by the ?articleid= parameter in your URL.
To retrieve the parameter you'll need a simple snippet like return (!empty($_GET['articleid']) ? $_GET['articleid'] : $default);. Lets name the snippet: "getArticleId". I left the option to decide a default image when there is no &articleid specified.
You're using modx evolution from the look of your [~[*id*]~] tag, but there should be some equivalent of the getResourceField package for evolution. This is the revolution version of the code needed:
<meta property="og:image" content="[[!getResourceField?
&id=`[[!getArticleId? &default=`[[*id]]`]]` //Take the blog page's own image as a default
&field=`imageTV` //you'll of course have to change "imageTV" to whatever you call it
&isTV=`1`
]]" />
Repeat for og:title and og:description, with their respective TV names.
Till yesterday everything was working fine.
In my website's head there was
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>
and links like
<a name="fb_share" share_url="http://mysite.com/url"></a>
were transformed to facebook share plugins.
But now there is a problem - i can't see count of shares in plugin. I sniffed requests a little and the error is:
fb_sharepro_render({"error_code":104,"error_msg":"Requires valid signature","request_args":[{"key":"v","value":"1.0"}
I did not change anything on website and problem still occurs. Any hints?
Edit (probably an answer):
This bug is described here: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=19471
Facebook team response:
Thanks for the report. We are looking into this.
We recommend to use the like button instead as we are going to deprecate the
share button soon. The like button provides you with the same functionality and
more ...
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Also, works solution with request to http://graph.facebook.com/?ids=*.
For example, while issue is not fixed by facebook, you can use a little modified facebook share widget script, it use a graph.facebook.com instead of api.facebook.com/restserver.php.
You have to introduce access_token also as a parameter. Find what facebook says
GET /fql?q=SELECT+uid2+FROM+friend+WHERE+uid1=me()&access_token=...
When you add a link to your Facebook page, after some processing, Facebook presents you a next/prev button to choose an image linked to the url your are inserting.
Obviously, Facebook reads the html-page and displays the images found on the url you insert.
Does anyone knows what algorithm Facebook uses to decide what images to show ?
If I insert a link to : http://www.staplijst.be/lachende-wandelaars-aalter-aktivia-003.asp, only 11 images are detected. The one I want, the one at the top right corner, is not included in the list.
If I insert a link to http://www.staplijst.be/stichting-kennedymars-rijsbergen-zundert-nederland-knblo-nl-81996.asp, 19 images are displayed (including the one I want (the one at the right top corner of the text area).
Both pages are build using asp code but are functionally the same.
I thought that it has something to do with the image size, but can't find any deciding factor there.
I will investigate some furhter, because if I know what Facebook is looking for, I can make sure that the correct images are included on the page (since they are dynamic pages build with classic asp).
But if anyone has any idea ? Help would be appreciated.
This looks like a duplicate of:
Facebook Post Link Image
Use <link rel="image_src" href="abs_url_of_your_image">
My guess, is that FB hides repeated images - 'couse a repeated image normally indicates a design-element (not content). When you post a link, only images related to that articles content, are relevant.
So; make sure your image only appears once, and see if it helps!
I am not familiar with the way Facebook did it, but I can tell you how I would do it.
Establish web request to desired url
Parse resulted web response with regular expression, that looks for <img src="" />
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.