PubForge Blog

Cross-posted from Publist

I thought I would throw this bit of information out there FWIW. I had been wondering how people were able to get such great meta information into the links and stories that they posted on Facebook, especially when it came to stories from news websites or blogs. I found the page on Facebook’s sharing service here http://www.facebook.com/share_partners.php. It listed several meta and link tags that help the share service work better. I added these tags

• <meta name=”title” content=”page_title” />
• <meta name=”description” content=”audio_description” />
• <link rel=”image_src” xhref=”audio_image_src url (eg. album art)” />
• <link rel=”audio_src” xhref=”audio_src url” />
• <meta name=”audio_type” content=”Content-Type header field” />
• <meta name=”audio_title” content=”audio_title (eg. song name)” />
• <meta name=”audio_artist” content=”audio_artist_name” />

systematically in our CMS, modifying the code to pick up the relevant content from the database when the page is hit. It works really well, and I noticed that Digg uses the same format, leading me to believe that this is becoming an important technique for distributing our content. I apologize if this is old hat to you, but I thought that someone else might benefit from this little tidbit.