When I add a Facebook link to my website, it picks up randomly large images from the site, and not quite attached to the story. How can I control what images are picked up by Facebook?
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The developer of the website can include specific meta tags in the HTML. From the Facebook page for "Share Partners"...
In order to make sure that the preview is always correctly populated, you should add the tags shown below to your html. An example news story could have the following:
<meta name="title" content="Smith hails 'unique' Wable legacy" />
<meta name="description" content="John Smith claims beautiful football is the main legacy of Akhil Wable's decade at the club. " />
<link rel="image_src" href="http://www.onjd.com/design05/images/PH2/WableAFC205.jpg" />
As shown, title contains the preview title, description contains the preview summary and image_src contains the preview image. Please make sure that none of the content fields contain any html markup because it will be stripped out. For consistency's sake, please use the tag to provide text data for the preview, and the tag for any source urls.
The title and summary tags are the minimum requirements for any preview, so make sure to include these two.
Portman
2009-10-14 03:55:26