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FB Share Wrong meta

Using Jamroom

Thank you so much for your help and time! Im sure others will benifit from this alot!

FB Share Wrong meta

Using Jamroom

I found this article showing its the same address the user put in for their url just add /1.jpg /2.jpg /3.jpg to the url if you use /0.jpg you get the full 480×360 thumbnail which would be a very cool feature of the share this module.


http://www.reelseo.com/youtube-thumbnail-image/
updated by @developer-networks: 02/04/14 10:46:34AM

FB Share Wrong meta

Using Jamroom



Is there a way i can easily just set it to use my website logo as default for all youtube shares with your module?

Also anyone with images in their menus will have this problem as well, which is why I thought this might be of interest.
updated by @developer-networks: 02/04/14 10:33:34AM

FB Share Wrong meta

Using Jamroom

When you click on share the youtube video from the page the third picture is a still shot of the youtube video. Where is this image fed from? It can be chosen on the list of 3 images you can select to share the video. The image is not posted on my site so it must be pulling it from youtube. How can I make those youtube images the default ones for my youtube shares?

* Also the images that are conflicting are pulling from my site menu. if you hover over the news menu tab you will see pictures the share this is grabbing and using as the default picture. Im trying to prevent from happening on my website. Thanks


updated by @developer-networks: 02/04/14 10:21:59AM

FB Share Wrong meta

Using Jamroom

Ok thank you.

But the ShareThis dosent just grab my profile image which always ends up being 2nd on the list.

It also dosent use the default one for the YouTube video which ends up always being the 3rd choice in the share.

Its grabbing the images from my news feed which is in the site menu on that page and choosing that as the 1st image and making that the default image for the share.

Is there a way I can force it to automatically use the YouTube Image or the sharing profile image as default so I don't continue to have this problem? Thanks




updated by @developer-networks: 02/04/14 09:53:56AM

FB Share Wrong meta

Using Jamroom

I tried it out and for the audio player it works great. But the problem still exist for the ShareThis YouTube shares.

Ill send you a link to your email to see for yourself. The default photo is pulling the artist pictures from the my news feeds in my menus.

Also, The description is now fixed I noticed. Well done and Thank You.



updated by @developer-networks: 02/04/14 02:45:57AM

FB Share Wrong meta

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Thank you! I wasn't feeling good today and have been down.

But in regards to "Seems like its working ok..." it was showing a different artist that didn't make the video and everyone knew it when they shared but shared anyway. Then they would inbox me

"why is it showing a different artist in share your video"? It was actually quite humiliating to get so many. I had to write the artist and apologize for my website doing this.

I'll update and check this out. I appreciate your help!


updated by @developer-networks: 02/04/14 02:44:39AM

FB Share Wrong meta

Using Jamroom

Thanks Steve. But whats wrong with doing something like this in the headers?


For example:

It would require the module saving the "current_image_link", "item_title" ect... when each item is shared (button pressed and before the share event fires) to {$jrShareThis_current_image_link} but facebook would see this in the header and pull the varible link to the current item being shared?


After the share is complete just revert the "current_image_link" and other files used in the meta data to the default like site logos and decription incase facebook needs to crawl the site for other like / sharing needs.

(maby a tools tab for this content?)

This would require some work on the modules but I think it might be a solid intricate part of functionality.


* Now that my video is at 250+ shares on facebook in just 2 days and non stop moving and I am eager for Monday in hope we can help develop a solution on this.

Thanks
updated by @developer-networks: 02/02/14 08:37:57PM

FB Share Wrong meta

Using Jamroom

also i have a module on a different system which shares audio and uses meta tags and a part that might be of interest to you is to allow in the module configuration
-a site logo
- a site description
that will be used in the meta tag pulls

FB Share Wrong meta

Using Jamroom

I was thinking the solution would be writing the og:meta tags and putting that on my item_list for the youtube module.

So when it pulls content for that item in the array it can feed the meta tag the content which fb will use to pull content from on the page the item is listed.

You can tell it to use the item_image, item_description ect and it dosent need to search the site for it.

This could also be implemented for the jrAudio module or anything sending item descriptions to FB as well.
updated by @developer-networks: 02/01/14 04:36:17PM