Facebook Debugger vs Spring Forums

[SinbadEV]

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

will let you see what details would be provided to the Facebook if a someone shares a link to your content on Facebook:

I tested it with: http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29828 (which is the announce thread for the new version and got the following results)

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/d ... 6t%3D29828

Scrape Information

Response Code: 200
Fetched URL: http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29828
Canonical URL: http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29828
Open Graph Warnings That Should Be Fixed

Inferred Property: The 'og:url' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
Inferred Property: The 'og:title' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
Inferred Property: The 'og:image' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.
Tiny og:image: All the images referenced by og:image should be at least 200px in both dimensions, and preferably 1500x1500px. (Maximum image size is 5MB.) Please check all the images with tag og:image in the given url and ensure that it meets the minimum specification.
Object Properties

og:url: http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29828
og:type: website
og:title: The Spring Project • View topic - Spring 93.0
og:image:

Which clearly isn't ideal.

Useful to all y'all web-designers too.

[Forboding Angel]

Not really. As a web designer, facebook is a walled wilting garden with content that cannot be indexed. People do not search facebook, people search google. Moreover facebook is rapidly losing younger users and it's shoveling of "Sponsored" ads from your "friends" are digging the pit even deeper.

If facebook is your marketing strategy, you have no marketing strategy.

[knorke]

People do not search facebook

search is not how content spreads across social networks

[Forboding Angel]

lol.

[knorke]

people "like" or "+1" or "tweet" something and so their friend see it appear in their status interblog content stream. Those "like" or "+1" or "retweet" it too and so it spreads.
But yes, all those networks are lol indeed.

[AF]

The debugger is advocating opengraph tags, those get used as fallbacks for G+ twitter pinterest etc. They're also useful browser meta data.

That said if you have something notable to share with us, and you've decided to put it in a forum thread or post, then you're doing it wrong, horribly, horribly wrong.

[SinbadEV]

The debugger is advocating opengraph tags, those get used as fallbacks for G+ twitter pinterest etc. They're also useful browser meta data.

That said if you have something notable to share with us, and you've decided to put it in a forum thread or post, then you're doing it wrong, horribly, horribly wrong.

Yeah... now that you mention... if it wasn't me I'd worry I was a spambot.

[PicassoCT]

maybe i should join the hype now before it dies off..

[SpliFF]

There was a time I feared Facebook/Twitter would finish off open protocols like IRC/Jabber but I was wrong. Luckily they ran out of money first and their attempts to stay viable are disenfranchising their users (all those privacy violations and misleading ads). Also it is apparent now that there are a LOT more Facebook holdouts than I originally suspected and each year more leave. With luck it will go the way of MySpace within 5 years and join a long list of massive tech has-beens.