facebook text description with gallery link

mango8mango8 Registered Users Posts: 6 Beginner grinner
edited March 31, 2011 in SmugMug Support
When i post a gallery link in facebook, the link and the snap shot work fine but i end up with smugmug promo text below the link - see image - how can/where do i change that to text to show gallery information?

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  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2011
    mango8 wrote: »
    When i post a gallery link in facebook, the link and the snap shot work fine but i end up with smugmug promo text below the link - see image - how can/where do i change that to text to show gallery information?
    You should be able to click on it and change or delete it.
    Al - Just a volunteer here having fun
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  • mango8mango8 Registered Users Posts: 6 Beginner grinner
    edited March 27, 2011
    the "billions of happy..." text appears automatically when the post is created. When creating the post - there's no option to alter the "Billions.. " text because it doesnt appear when the link is posted?

    Smugmug must pull the text from somewhere - or should i be posting the link differently, as present i copy the url from my browser title bar and paste in.
  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2011
    mango8 wrote: »
    the "billions of happy..." text appears automatically when the post is created. When creating the post - there's no option to alter the "Billions.. " text because it doesnt appear when the link is posted?

    Smugmug must pull the text from somewhere - or should i be posting the link differently, as present i copy the url from my browser title bar and paste in.
    Paste the gallery link in the FB text area and it generates the thumb and
    stuff below. Click the info and it will highlight then delete or change it to
    your own description. I also delete the link that was pasted in text box and
    replace with text if needed.

    I think to share link from Smugmug doesn't do this.
    Al - Just a volunteer here having fun
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  • mango8mango8 Registered Users Posts: 6 Beginner grinner
    edited March 27, 2011
    Ah, ok - thank you for the help
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2011
    mango8 wrote: »
    the "billions of happy..." text appears automatically when the post is created. When creating the post - there's no option to alter the "Billions.. " text because it doesnt appear when the link is posted?

    Smugmug must pull the text from somewhere - or should i be posting the link differently, as present i copy the url from my browser title bar and paste in.
    This text is fully and entirely influenced by your site meta data. If you have no gallery description, we'll use what you put in your site's meta in control panel - settings tab - if you have nothing there, Facebook uses SmugMug's meta (billions of happy photos).

    So, use an album description or use your site wide meta thumb.gif
    Andy

    Portfolio • Workshops • Facebook • Twitter
  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2011
    Allen wrote: »
    Paste the gallery link in the FB text area and it generates the thumb and
    stuff below. Click the info and it will highlight then delete or change it to
    your own description. I also delete the link that was pasted in text box and
    replace with text if needed.

    I think to share link from Smugmug doesn't do this.
    As I said here, there is no way to edit that description using the Smugmug FB
    share link. Copy the gallery url and paste it in FB, then you can delete or edit
    that description. Used here, you'll see edited descriptions on all gallery posts..
    Al - Just a volunteer here having fun
    My Website index | My Blog
  • pbandjpbandj Registered Users Posts: 237 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2011
    I pasted a gallery link (slideshow) into Facebook, and it correctly generated the text description from my gallery description. However, I noticed a typo and went back into Smugmug to correct it. I canceled my Facebook post and re-pasted the link. Even though the gallery description has been corrected in Smugmug, Facebook is still picking up the old, incorrect one...

    I can manually edit the Facebook text, but this makes me concerned that the incorrect text is still lurking out there for a search engine or other tool to pick up, and isn't cleaned up appropriately everywhere. Any hints?
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2011
    pbandj wrote: »
    I pasted a gallery link (slideshow) into Facebook, and it correctly generated the text description from my gallery description. However, I noticed a typo and went back into Smugmug to correct it. I canceled my Facebook post and re-pasted the link. Even though the gallery description has been corrected in Smugmug, Facebook is still picking up the old, incorrect one...

    I can manually edit the Facebook text, but this makes me concerned that the incorrect text is still lurking out there for a search engine or other tool to pick up, and isn't cleaned up appropriately everywhere. Any hints?
    gotta clear fb's cache of your link
    do this, then re-post on FB
    http://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/
    Andy

    Portfolio • Workshops • Facebook • Twitter
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