[pydotorg-www] Fwd: Images used on Python.org website, and Facebook

Tue Feb 26 09:12:18 CET 2013

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:17 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> On 25.02.2013 16:59, Carl Karsten wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
> >> Le 25/02/2013 08:38, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit :
> >>> Does someone know which aspects to tweak in order to change this ?
> >>
> >> You’d need to add special markup to your page to define the title,
> >> description and image to be shown on Facebook.  It’s part of what they
> >> call OpenGraph; it’s comparable to RDFa, Microformats or schema.org,
> but
> >> specific to Facebook, so adding such markup may be interpreted as
> >> endorsement.
> >>
> >>
> http://mikeeverhart.net/facebook/use-ogp-tags-to-change-images-when-sharing-links-on-facebook/
> >>
> >
> > Whoever wants this implemented should provide something like this:
> >
> > <head>
> >     ...
> >     <!-- Required OGP Tags -->
> >     <meta property="og:title" content="Mike Everhart - Web Designer.
> > Programmer. Geek." />
> >     <meta property="og:type" content="website" />
> >     <meta property="og:url" content="http://mikeeverhart.net/" />
> >     <meta property="og:image"
> > content="http://mikeeverhart.net/mike-everhart-facebook.png" />
> >     ...
> > </head>
>
> I just tested the image selection on Facebook. While I also see
> the success story as first image, the second image is the Python
> logo. The format of the logo image doesn't really fit the Facebook
> or Google+, so perhaps adding an image which can be used for these
> is not a bad idea.
>
> Does Google+ have a similar standard for defining such images ?
>
> We could then add both to not endorse a specific social network.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176035
http://schema.org/Thing or http://schema.org/SoftwareApplication
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?url=www.python.org&html=

-- 
anatoly t.
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