Wednesday, 26 December 2012

Facebook Blog Post Not Displaying Post Title: The Solution

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I recently encountered an issue when manually posting my blog post links to Facebook groups/page. This issue really frustrated my blog post promotion on Face book groups. After  I created  How To Quickly  Upload Photos ToFacebook,I discovered it was only  showing /displaying the blog title instead of the post title. Initially I thought it was a Facebook issue which can be  resolved using the Facebook  debugger  until a friend told me I had to change my template which I never wanted to do.

What Is The Possible Way out?

Having tried other options including using Facebook debugging tool,I finally got a solution. I discovered it has to do with distortion of my blogger template.
To get this problem resolved, I had to add the code below under my template <head> session

<meta content='article' property='og:type'/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.postImageThumbnailUrl' property='og:image'/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.title' property='og:site_name'/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.pageName' property='og:title'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.metaDescription != &quot;&quot;'>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription' name='description'/>
</b:if>


After adding the code above to your template, preview your template before saving, if there is not error, then save your template. Finally copy your home page URL to be debugged using Facebook linter.
Your blog post title should show up by now when posted on Facebook.

Have you been in a similar situation like this? If yes the we would be glad if you can share the way you resolved the issue with us.

1 comment:

  1. Ebima, your xmas gift of ads space on bloggerslab is cool...i like it. thinking of how i could add those codes on ma blog...when i need it..hope u gonna let me have the procedure..thanks

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