Article Titles And Social Media Sharing

[jernatety]

Can only assume it's directly attributed to Optimus. I can't uninstall it though. It's really working well in SEO terms according to my Google Webmaster tools. 

[jernatety]

Out of curiosity, I clicked FB, Twitter and G+ share icons, (I don't have accounts for the rest). Here's what I found.

FB - Appends the index Title/Site Description/URL to index/Site Logo
Twitter - Appends just the link, nothing else
G+ - Appends the actual Article Name/Site Description/URL to the article/Site Logo

I guess all three socials see meta data differently? See attached, all three.

[wildenborch]

Yes, i also noticed that. Google+ gave the best results but after i added the meta description directly into the code Facebook is now my favourite because they also show a part of the text.

[jernatety]

Yes, i also noticed that. Google+ gave the best results but after i added the meta description directly into the code Facebook is now my favourite because they also show a part of the text.

What do you mean you added meta description directly into the code? Are you talking about when editing the article? This is what my code looks like, (see attached) and hasn't been changed for weeks. Even when the screen shots were taken of FB/Twitt/G+

[wildenborch]

What do you mean you added meta description directly into the code? Are you talking about when editing the article? This is what my code looks like, (see attached) and hasn't been changed for weeks. Even when the screen shots were taken of FB/Twitt/G+

I noticed in standard SMF / TP installations, the facebook scrape is showing the website /article title /  article title.
Google+ is only showing Article title / website.
After I included the tag <meta content="" name="description" /> into the artice with the code editor, the Facebook scrape is showing: website / article title / description.
If you leave the cantent"" empty facebook will automatically take a part of the text.
If you place some text between the content"" that text is taken.

Unfortunately, when using a mod like Optimus or in case the meta tags are hardcoded into the theme index.template.php the facebook scrape will take the title and description information from that.

[jernatety]

What do you mean you added meta description directly into the code? Are you talking about when editing the article? This is what my code looks like, (see attached) and hasn't been changed for weeks. Even when the screen shots were taken of FB/Twitt/G+

I noticed in standard SMF / TP installations, the facebook scrape is showing the website /article title /  article title.
Google+ is only showing Article title / website.
After I included the tag <meta content="" name="description" /> into the artice with the code editor, the Facebook scrape is showing: website / article title / description.
If you leave the cantent"" empty facebook will automatically take a part of the text.
If you place some text between the content"" that text is taken.

Unfortunately, when using a mod like Optimus or in case the meta tags are hardcoded into the theme index.template.php the facebook scrape will take the title and description information from that.

Ok, so basically Optimus is stopping FB because of it's hardcoded settings?

[wildenborch]

In my opinion, the problem is caused by the meta tags. I don't know if the tags on your page are created by Optimus, another mod or coded in the index.template.php or something else

If you view the Hockey Rink Guide page source you will see several meta tags.
one of them is <meta property="og:url" content="https://www.youthhockeyinfo.com/" />

If you view the page source of a forum topic you will see the meta tag:
<meta property="og:url" content="https://www.youthhockeyinfo.com/index.php/topic,253.0.html" />
(this is the topic:    Topic: Rate your visit to Oaks Center Ice )

The facebook scrape of this forum topic is showing the correct info.

All my 5 SMF/TP sites don't have the meta tags you have on your site.

[jernatety]

Here's what I've got.....

I have SMF>Configuration>Features and Options>General [Search Engine Friendly URLS] enabled with meta key words identified. This is an SMF default feature.

I have Optimus SEO mod installed and running

I don't have any other mods which would manipulate the default SMF SEO feature or the Optimus mod. I also don't have any manual meta edits to info.template.php

[wildenborch]

Could it be related to the "Add this" mod that is active in your forum?

I was able to install optimus on another site and the meta tags are indeed created by optimus.
So i'm now 99,999% sure this is causing "the problem".