For all you facebook users out there, have you ever shared a link to your facebook wall and realized the title, description, and/or image had nothing to do with the link you were sharing?
Well for those of us who have a basic knowledge of html tags there is a way for us to tell facebook what to use. It is very simple. For the title facebook uses the meta title content. For the description it uses the description content. These two things should be done all the time but for images here where it get you will need a different tag. You need to use the ‘link’ tag. Inside the link tag you need to have a rel, type, and href values. The rel will have to be set to ‘image_src’, the type to ‘image/jpeg’ and the href will be set to the location of the image. Below is an example of how it should look.
<meta name="title" content="Good Title"/>
<meta name="description" content="Good Description" />
<link rel="image_src" type="image/jpeg" href="http://www.Netplusmarketing.com/images/An-Image.jpg" />
So if we take http://www.netplusmarketing.com and paste it into the facebook wall you will get:
That’s it super simple.
Click here for the facebook wiki documents for Facebook Share/Specifying Meta Tags.
