[wp-edu] metadata on Facebook

[Bill Dennen]

Another great tool:

http://redbot.org/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwagner.edu%2Fhawktalk%2Farchives%2F3316

As Ben said, your server is returning a 301 redirect for that URL.

I'm not sure why a regular browser would ignore the redirect, though.



On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Anna Mulé <anna.mule at wagner.edu> wrote:
> Thanks, Bill. I guess the homepage of the blog works, but when I paste an
> individual post (for example, http://wagner.edu/hawktalk/archives/3316) into
> FB, I just get the link. When I use that FB tool
> (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwagner.edu%2Fhawktalk%2Farchives%2F3316),
> it says that the "URL returned a bad HTTP response code" and that "the
> og:type property" is missing.  How do I fix that on my site? Is this somehow
> related to the way permalinks are set up on the blog?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Anna Mulé | Director of Digital & Social Media
> Office of Communications & Marketing
> wagner.edu | 718.420.4468 | @wagnercollege
>
> Connect with Wagner College!
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>
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Bill Dennen <dennen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You can use the Facebook Linter tool to "reset" what FB knows about
>> the page. It basically clears FB's cache of the page.
>>
>> I put your page in here and tested and I now get an image to show up
>> when I share the link. I used this URL (with trailing slash):
>> http://wagner.edu/hawktalk/
>>
>>
>> https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwagner.edu%2Fhawktalk%2F
>>
>> Also, your og:image is commented out. You can use this to control
>> which image it uses.
>>
>> <!--<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.myimage.jpg"/>-->
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Anna Mulé <anna.mule at wagner.edu> wrote:
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > I'm having trouble with the metadata on one of my subsites — when I
>> > paste a
>> > link into Facebook, I don't get a photo preview or excerpt. All I get is
>> > a
>> > boring link preview. The subsite is wagner.edu/hawktalk. Other subsites
>> > pull
>> > the appropriate previews. Any ideas for what I'm missing?
>> >
>> > Many thanks,
>> >
>> > Anna Mulé | Director of Digital & Social Media
>> > Office of Communications & Marketing
>> > wagner.edu | 718.420.4468 | @wagnercollege
>> >
>> > Connect with Wagner College!
>> >
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