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[wardcraigj Friend wardcraigjJoin date: April 2011Posts: 29Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 5 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#168042

Hello,

It seems as though my joomla installation is adding the incorrect metadata on articles. When someone attempts to like or share an article it pulls the wrong OG:URL and OG:TITLE tags.

It seems to be doing this with random articles. When I use the facebook object debugger it says that there are duplicate tags. This error seems to appear at random, and it impacts everyone who has shared these articles.

Please help!!!

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#409955

I get the current title in the facebook share in this Url. Please check it and confirm http://www.weekthusfar.com/index.php/sports/hockey/157-hard-partying-jets-rack-up-112-bar-tab-in-winnipeg

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#410039

Seems to be working fine now. Thanks

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#410058

Shoot! I spoke too soon.. It’s changed again! Please help!

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#410067

<em>@wardcraigj 264477 wrote:</em><blockquote>Shoot! I spoke too soon.. It’s changed again! Please help!</blockquote>
Just wanted to confirm that you are correct – I tested it out on the lead article and when I tried to “share” to my Facebook page, it brought up a different article.

I see you submitted a ticket for this – I will follow-up to make sure this issue gets looked at.

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#410086

From the Facebook object debugger:

Warning

Duplicate tags You used “title” multiple times, but it should only appear once
Duplicate tags You used “url” multiple times, but it should only appear once
Required Property Missing og:type is required
Name instead of Property You used <meta name=”language” /> instead of <meta property=”og:language” />
Info

URL http://www.weekthusfar.com/index.php/news-cat/canada/144
Description As the Canadian Union of Postal Workers continue into the second week of their strike, it has been revealed that two Russian teenagers were found dead from starvation in the Canada Post building in
Image
Images http://www.weekthusfar.com/plugins/content/facebooklikeandshare/link.png
Title Postal strike causes deaths of two mail order brides
Site URL http://www.weekthusfar.com/
Debug

Fetched URL http://weekthusfar.com/index.php/sports/hockey/157-hard-partying-jets-rack-up-112-bar-tab-in-winnipeg
Data Source <meta property=”og:title” content=”Postal strike causes deaths of two mail order brides” />
Data Source <meta property=”og:url” content=”http://www.weekthusfar.com/index.php/news-cat/canada/144″ />
Data Source “The puck has not yet dropped on their inaugural NHL season, but the relocated players of the Winnipeg Jets are already gaining a reputation for partying too hard in their new home town. In a shocking” extracted from <meta name=”description” />
Data Source Extracted 2 values from <meta property=”og:image” />: http://weekthusfar.com/images/resized/images/newjetslogo_200_200.jpg, http://www.weekthusfar.com/plugins/content/facebooklikeandshare/link.png
Data Source “As the Canadian Union of Postal Workers continue into the second week of their strike, it has been revealed that two Russian teenagers were found dead from starvation in the Canada Post building in” extracted from <meta name=”description” />
Data Source Extracted 1 values from <meta property=”og:image” />: http://www.weekthusfar.com/plugins/content/facebooklikeandshare/link.png
Data Source “en-GB” extracted from <meta name=”language” />
Canonical URL http://www.weekthusfar.com/index.php/news-cat/canada/144

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#410244

I think support misinterpreted by issue

From support:

Hi wardcraigj!
It is using the keywords from the article, not from the global configuration. If you think it is using the global configuration, then this is a bug. But I’m pretty sure that this is not the case. So, please re-check your data. If you think it is using global configuration, then please report back with a specific case that I can look at.
Thanks!

Ticket Details
Ticket ID: TDO-867-86418
Department: Technical – JATC
Type: Issue
Status: Replied
Priority: Low

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#410245

My response:

I’m sorry, I don’t understand.

The it’s the Title and URL fields that are reporting information from incorrect articles to facebook. The facebook object debugger reports duplicate meta tags for these fields. The meta data SHOULD be pulled from the article at the URL given, not an article at another address or the global configuration.

This is happening really inconsistently. Sometimes when I debug an article it appears fine, other times it will tell me that I have duplicate tags and will pull the incorrect data, and other times it can’t find the tags at all.

This issue first appeared on this article:

http://weekthusfar.com/index.php/sports/hockey/157-hard-partying-jets-rack-up-112-bar-tab-in-winnipeg

Object debugger:

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fweekthusfar.com%2Findex.php%2Fsports%2Fhockey%2F157-hard-partying-jets-rack-up-112-bar-tab-in-winnipeg

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#410260

It is using the keywords from the article, not from the global configuration. If you think it is using the global configuration, then this is a bug.
In other words, do you have meta tag descriptions on each article? If so, if you dont change that, there is no one that is going to stop fb from picking it up and display as “description” for every article/post in your site.

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#410263

Hi,

We don’t enter any meta tag descriptions for any article. The problem that we are seeing is that when someone hits “like” on one of our articles, it may or may not show up correctly as that article in their feed, and even if it shows up correctly initially, the title and URL that is being shared in that post is changing when the information is refreshed through the facebook object debugger.

This is the same post in the two attached images, but the title and link are changing.

The original link that was shared was to an article titled “Hard-partying Jets rack up $112 bar tab in Winnipeg”. This affects all users who have shared the link in this manner. Facebook is reporting that it is an issue with duplicate meta-tags for the title and URL fields. We are not setting ANY meta-tags manually. The tags present in these pages are all generated.

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[Blaine Friend BlaineJoin date: August 2007Posts: 1443Downloads:0Uploads:25 Thanks: 98 Thanked: 177 times in 154 posts]

#410277

How do you have meta tags defined in Global settings please.

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#410282

Here is the global settings:

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[Blaine Friend BlaineJoin date: August 2007Posts: 1443Downloads:0Uploads:25 Thanks: 98 Thanked: 177 times in 154 posts]

#410285

In that screen shot you have Global settings set to display meta tag data and that is probably the issue as Facebook is pulling it’s own meta tag data.
Please set both to “NO”, clear the site AND browser cache, view the site and see if problem persists.
Thanks!

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#410290

Hi Blaine,

I’ve just tried this and the problem persists

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#410332

I just replied to thew ticket with a new response, please read it and reply after trying.
Thanks!

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