Hello Crew,
for some days my articles messed up at sharing on facebook 🙁
“…of type ‘website’ is invalid because a required property ‘og:title’ of type ‘string’ was not provided.”
– only the fuzzbuzz.de URL is shown but no META DATA
Iam Using the Facebook debugger and disabled all plugins (YOAST SEO, JETPACL etc). But the data doesnt get fetched corractly.
Anyone could help me? Bug at Version: 4.2.14.2.1?
http://www.fuzzbuzz.de
cheers my friends
Daniel
Well, using Yoast helps to put the OG tags into the head of your HTML documents. If you “view source” for one of your post pages, and you don’t see the OG tags, then you need to use something like Yoast SEO to insert those into the head. Once you activate Yoast SEO, then view the page source for one of your posts and the OG tags should be there. Of course, make sure you enable that function in your Yoast SEO settings under social media
Having the same kind of problem since the 4.2.1 update, Chris. Mainly on Google+ sharing. Using Yoast and Easy Social Share Buttons from Code Canyon the image attached to the share is my logo, not the featured image. All posts get a featured image and this started happening immediately following the latest theme update.
So, you’re saying that when you view your page source the OG tags show link to your logo and not to the featured image? That is very weird.
In the latest version I’m seeing two OG image tags, both with my featured image link, and one twitter tag with featured image link — not sure why there is duplicate there, unless theme inserting one as well as YOAST, or yet another (sigh) bug in Yoast’s SEO plugin (when you put out a plugin, then issue 2 patches the same day for bugs, shows a lack of testing on Yoast’s part, sadly).
Note that G+, and Facebook don’t “always” grab the correct image. If you see the proper OG and twitter tags in your meta data doing “view source” it’s not a meta data problem, but an issue with Google.
No, I’m actually getting the same thing as you, duplicate og:image tags that both point to the featured image. And I’ve actually dropped Yoast on my primary site thanks to the numerous issues the plugin has. SEO Ultimate is working nicely. But I’ve tried both to see if this issue is affected by it, no dice.
Facebook is working perfectly. Also using Jetpack publicize. Until this last theme update the google plus posts were excellent, as were Facebook and twitter. Now, the latter two are fine but google is missing the featured image. Even more strange, to me, is that when manually posting to google it only shows my logo, an ad, and the author image as options. That’s whether I post to google via my ESSB plugin or manually from my google profile.
My point is, if it’s google having an issue then that was some pretty fantastic timing that the issue started on the post immediately following the theme upgrade. No clue how that works out, if it is the theme, but I gotta go with a plausible theory in this case, not some far-fetched coincidence.
I post from 10 news portal sites a day to G+, and the image problem comes and goes. Google “sometimes” reads the tags, sometimes they “scrape” image from the page when they read it. It’s not theme related as we are using multiple themes in our aging network. We have this same issue with Google News when there are 2 images in a story; they sometimes grab the primary which is the one in the meta data, but most of the time they grab the second image in the story, which means they are still scraping the page.
So, Google “scraping” content vs using tags is an old on/off/on issue. Just like sometimes they grab featured image, and then don’t grab headline and summary, and drop in only the URL.
In your case, this is likely a glitch due to Google unhooking all the author stuff out of the search results, and the G+ stuff out of search results this month. I betcha it will clear up after the holiday 🙂
Let’s hope. My experience with G+ on these matters has been 99.5% consistent for over a year now – only had one or two posts show up on G+ via the automatic JetPack feature with any issues at all. One was no image, and one was the url with no image or title. That includes my old primary site, and its new reinvention, as well as four other sites using various themes and much less posting post frequency.
Gonna have to check up on the changes to authorship. Seems odd they’d reverse any of that after making such a huge push to revamp the SEO industry with authorship involvement the last few years. Thanks for the tip.
Yeah. Big deal in the SEO world, of which I’m a part, having started doing that in 1995. 🙂 I built my first website when there were less than 27,000 registered domain names worldwide (!). Now I feel old.
Supposedly authorship won’t be seen in search results as of this past week officially when they announced it (after starting removal awhile ago); and, they will no longer show number of G+ likes or friends like or not in results.
They issued a statement about it here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JohnMueller/posts/HZf3KDP1Dm8
One article this week stated that Google authorship is dead, but Author Rank will live on, which you can read here:
http://searchengineland.com/google-authorship-dead-author-rank-202254
Sadly, I have to keep up on this stuff on a daily basis for my day job. 🙂
Big deal should be an understatement from what I understand. Mine is more of a cursory interest in the industry as I love to dabble and have some income riding on related issues. Didn’t Google basically trash the most well-known and used SEO strategies while implementing authorship shortly after launching G+? Talk about much ado about nothing… years later.
@Nero9111 Yes, sorry about the hi-jack here.
Looked at your site and pulled the source – your OG tags are present and look to be in good working order. The problem you’re having sounds more like the Facebook app setup is erred. Make sure you have your domains and content type setup correctly in your Facebook app, as that can give you the error described.
Also remember that the Facebook debug tool often requires several refreshes with newly scraped data to update the cache on Facebook. Try five or six times and see if that helps. In either case, Newspaper is doing what it should. Also try to repeat the process on several posts and see if any differences are found in the results.
Hey friends,
no problem that you have hijacked my thread 🙂 It’s really interesting because I’m quite new to SEO.
Facebook fetches the correct OG data – that I could see in the debugger. Only the data in the post will not appear.
Even the repeated renew with the debugger has so far no success. I’m going to check my Facebook APP.
Thanks for your help so far 🙂
cheers
And so Mr. Kronos is not crazy after all … 😉
See: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/duplicate-ogimage-tag-due-to-fb-video-fix-update/
