"Preview" information for site (facebook etc.)

Overheal

So you're familiar with posting links on facebook, FB will parse the link and show users an Image from the page, and sometimes preview text.

For my site homepage http://joncharron.info it shows the Mail button, the page name from the Tab, and no summary text (because well, there is none)

What do I do to embed a page summary and tell it which image to use as a preview?

colm_c

You can use custom meta tags that facebook will read, have a look here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/howtos/maximizing-distribution-media-content#tags

e.g.


[HTML]<meta property="og:title" content="The title you want to appear on facebook" /> [/HTML]

Overheal

Thanks.

Won't know if I did it right until the internet crawls through again I presume

daymobrew

Overheal wrote: »

Won't know if I did it right until the internet crawls through again I presume

Don't have to wait - post the link in a Facebook status update and see what content is pulled in after a few secs. If you wait the few secs you won't even have to post the update.