I made an app for Facebook. The 'like' description shows up in share but on people's Timeline it does not appear. I have debugged and tried over and over but it's still not working. The image appears, the link, the site name but no description.
These are the metatags I use:
<meta property="og:{tagName}" content="{tagValue}"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="..."/>
<meta property="og:title" content="..."/>
<meta property="og:url" content="..."/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="..."/>
<meta property="og:type" content="blog"/>
<meta name="keywords" content="giggle">
I just don't understand why the description appears on the main Facebook page but not the Timeline.
After having done an extensive amount of digging for a project of mine that had the same problem (that's how I found this question). I've come to the conclusion that this is the basic facebook functionality, and there's no way around it.
I checked out two popular websites that should be doing it correctly and here you can see the New York Times in News Feed:
and Time Line:
Also, Upworthy in News Feed:
and Time Line:
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I'm not very good when it comes to setting up a server on Amazon but together with a friend I set up an EC2 with cPanel and IPv6 enabled. The website is http://tomeofheroes.com . The issue I'm having is that when I'm trying to post this website on a social platform I get a directory listing instead of the actual index page. I have setup all the proper og tags so that's not the issue.
This is the facebook developer link for example: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomeofheroes.com%2F
Here are my og tags:
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Tome of Heroes">
<meta property="og:description" content="Competitive & High Skill-Cap PvP on your mobile device.">
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.tomeofheroes.com/images/og_image.png">
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.tomeofheroes.com/">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Tome of Heroes">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Competitive & High Skill-Cap PvP on your mobile device.">
<meta name="twitter:image" content="http://www.tomeofheroes.com/images/og_image.png">
<meta name="twitter:card" content="http://tomeofheroes.com/images/twitter_card.png">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="#TomeOfHeroes">
Again, I'm not very experienced when it comes to setting up the server properly but as far as I can tell it seems to work fine, it just doesn't work on social networks. In any case, if someone has any idea of what's wrong, I'd really appreciate it! Please try and explain it in basic terms, thanks in advance!
I am integrating Facebook like and share feature in my application. Share and like are working fine, but images are not get posted on wall, I am using following og tags as follows in my
<meta property="og:title" content="HomeElite" />
<meta property="og:type" content="Real State" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://50.63.185.193/homeElite/home.seam" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://50.63.185.193/homeElite/rets-img/08258215_1.jpeg" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="HOMEELITE" />
<meta property="og:description" content="HomeElite, Listing from MLS" />
Can any one please tell what is wrong with this? let me know if missed any thing to tell.
Thanks in advance.
Ali
Run your URL through the OpenGraph Debugger and see if any errors are returned. The main error I see is that the type is incorrect - there is no type of "Real State". See the Common Object types to find a more suitable option. Also, the og:image tag isn't detected on your page - try using a different format and see if it fixes the issue.
I created a web app with Rails and gave it the name on my local host LP4. Rails then made that the title of the site and, without thinking, I forgot to change it once I added a Facebook like button. Now anytime I or anyone else clicks "like" it shows that they like "LP4" on their facebook page. The only place it said LP4 on my site was in the title tags and I've changed them to the proper title of the site.
Furthermore, I put the Facebook meta tags in the header of my site indicating the new title etc, and the like button still puts "LP4" on the Facebook page.
I also never put the title LP4 on Facebook's developer settings http://developers.facebook.com so I don't know where it's getting it from.
Anyone know how to fix this?
<meta property="og:title" content="My New Title"/>
<meta property="og:type" content="website"/>
<meta property="og:url" content="http://mydomain.com/"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="http://blah.png"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Site Name"/>
<meta property="fb:admins" content="2484848484848"/>
<meta property="og:description"
content="random site description."/
>
I've Facebook like button correctly in my site.
My meta look like these:
<meta property="og:image" content="image url"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="site name"/>
<meta property="og:title" content="page title"/>
<meta property="og:url" content="page url" />
<meta property="og:description" content="page description" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article"/>
<meta property="fb:admins" content="my_user_id"/>
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="my_app_id"/>
Meta are properly inserted & verified (with Facebook linter)
I'm able to get like count value throught fql query
SELECT share_count, like_count, comment_count, total_count FROM link_stat WHERE url="mysiteurl"
It's all ok but these values don't include likes made from users on Facebook wall.
For example if I share a link (www.example.com/myurl) on my wall and my friends or someone else likes the url from their own wall, the like count on www.example.com/myurl doesn't reflect these new likes. It's not a cache delay issue.
It seems to me that, url shared on Facebook lives on its own.
I'd want to get the like count mentioned above.
Thanks for your help.
Liking a stream item (aka post/wall/feed/link) which happens to contain your link is not the same as liking a url.
I have 2 like buttons on my site, one for the website itself is working fine, but the other one for the 'specific articles' isn't showing the image and article contents in the news feeds. It'll just show something like this:
Felix Tan likes a link.
http://www.neptuni.com/lab/blog/new-marketplace-new-opportunities.php
I believe this is a problem with my meta tags, here's my tags for the article page
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.neptuni.com/images/fb_image.png" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Neptuni.com" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Neptuni.com" />
<meta property="fb:admins" content="514526208" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.neptuni.com/lab/blog/new-marketplace-new-opportunities.php" />
<meta property="og:description" content="test" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
Can anyone help me on this? Thanks!
You can see the specific page at http://www.neptuni.com/lab/blog/new-marketplace-new-opportunities.php
It worked just fine for me. Most likely it's a caching problem. When facing such issues always run your links on the Facebook Debugger.