Making your pages more Facebook shareable
I’m working on a project involving Gallery 3, and one of my goals was tight Facebook
integration. Today I’ve wanted to make sure that when someone shares a
page from my gallery on Facebook, it’ll show up OK.
After some digging around I found some interesting stuff:
####Facebook’s URL Linter
Whenever you want to test / troubleshoot your shared URLs, use this tool to see what Facebook
makes of it. It’ll take a url and display all metadata that Facebook
harvests from the page, like its title, description and thumbnail.
Metadata tags
Page metadata can be “force-fed” to Facebook using <Metadata> tags.
I haven’t been able to find a complete list, but these folks will do for
most people:
- title
- description
- image_src
Open Graph Tags
If your page represents a real-life object (such as a celebrity, movie, restaurant) you might prefer using Open Graph. Don’t be misled by the name, this standard was created for Facebook. It’s not some internet-wide phenomenon (at least for now!)
These resources should be enough for you to be able to make your page Facebook-shareable.