Facebook Share doesn't show my description or my thumbnail
I have followed every single piece of advice I have found to try to get this to work but all of it has been to no avail. Can someone tell me why my description/thumbnail doesn't show up? Thanks. Below is my code and the link to the site:
Meta Tags:
<meta name="title" content="La Vita è Bella, because life is beautiful" />
<meta name="description" content="Drawing on Italy’s most famous export – great-tasting, healthy, colourful food – La Vita é Bella brings families together to experience mealtimes the Italian way." />
<link rel="image_src" href="http://www.lavitaebella.co.uk/images/imageforfacebook.jpg" />
Actual Link:
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.lavitaebella.co.uk" target="_blank"><img src='../images/share/s-fb.png' /></a>
http://www.lavitaebella.co.uk/
Thanks in advance for any help.
Answer
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Please note that this answer doesn't work any more and is out of date. Please try the above answer.
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Got it sorted. Had to use a url that is chock full of craziness:
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s= 100&p[title]=La Vita È Bella&p[url]=http://www.lavitaebella.co.uk/teachers/resources.html&p[images][0]=http://www.lavitaebella.co.uk/images/imageforfacebook.gif&p[summary]=Drawing on Italy’s most famous export – great-tasting, healthy, colourful food – La Vita é Bella brings families together to experience mealtimes the Italian way"><img src='../images/share/s-fb.png' /></a>
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As some extra information, I can't remember where I originally found this information but here's what the s=100 part means:
The basic approach is you are providing a link to http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s=100 which is the basic share page (typically this is shown in a popup).
But I tried changing the numbers and it still goes to the same place.
As for the &p, it's just html code for &p and I think this is the array that Facebook dissects to get at the information.