Friday 25 August 2017

How to make a facebook link show the image you want.

Here's a dilemma, you want to post info about your company, business etc. on facebook.
However you don't know what the image will look like etc.

Here's how we made it happen...

Firstly Facebook likes you to put tags in a link. This means that you can control how a link is displayed.

1, which text is used for the subject
2. which links
3. which description text
4. which image to use

Here's an example from worldofme.com

A screen shot showing the effect of using Facebook tags on a link.


The tags to use are

<!-- image -->
<meta property="og:image" content="http://worldofme.com/carrot.png" />
<!-- link title -->
<meta property="og:title" content="Woman finds long-lost diamond ring on carrot in garden" />
<!-- link description -->
<meta property="og:description" content="A Canadian woman got an extra carrot with her diamond ring when it was found in her vegetable patch 13 years after she lost it. This is not the first time someone has found a diamond ring on a carrot. In 2011, a Swedish woman found her wedding ring 16 years after she lost it. More details and picture here.." />
<!-- link URL -->
<meta property="og:url" content="http://worldofme.com/_carrot.php" />
<!-- link provided by mark@hopgood.eu - contact me to customise your links or web page -->


Feel free to use the above code.
There is also a free tool from facebook to check what a link will look like in advance.

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