Smugmug Facebook link

Photolistic

When I share my link on facebook, is there a way to make it not say about the snugmug photo sharing?
I just want my stuff on there.

Andy

Yup, it's very simple - just fill our your homepage meta info (control panel, settings tab) and also fill out the Gallery Description in your galleries. Gallery description will trump what's in your control panel.

http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93327

Photolistic

I have changed that part and this is what it still says. I want to get rid of the top and bottom parts:

SmugMug. Photo Sharing. Your Photos Look Better Here.
www.SomethingForever.com
Portland Wedding Photographer Jim Yeager and photo booth rentals for portland, salem, Vancouver, Seattle and other areas.: Billions of happy photos, millions of passionate customers. Gorgeous online photo albums. Protect your priceless memories. Buy beautiful prints & gifts.

Photolistic

Here is a better example

Photolistic

Is there a way to do this?

Andy

You just have a cached FB link. Everyone else in the world sees this:



Don't worry at all.

Pure Energy

When I posted a link in a FakeBook (FB) message to someone for help with captions I noticed the link had three parts:

• Top line had three parts:
  • the caption of the particular photo
  • - (dash symbol)
  • a slogan I entered somewhere on my site... a long time ago
• Second line was my smugmug address
• Third section was the gracious mission statement loaned out to us:
  • Billions of happy photos, millions of passionate customers. Gorgeous online photo albums. Protect your priceless memories. Buy beautiful prints & gifts.

Of course, I had a problem when the FB link just would not reflect what the photo's caption was for the first line. I changed it a few times, closed my browser, cleared my cache and nothing. It was like the link was still reading the actual caption I had written in the photo before uploading to SmugMug so no matter what I changed in the caption on SM it wasn't going to say what I wanted it to say. Is it really the actual meta caption of the photo or the SM caption?

So, I erased all of that url information so the link did not reflect a particular photo from a password protected gallery but rather the url was for the basic gallery in general. Problem solved for now but I am worried about what it will look like when other people post links.

So, I'm looking at the SmugIsland Settings and am about to enter text for the first time and wondering what where will override what and where.

Out of curiosity, I did a Google search and lo and behold, the domain name that I wanted awhile ago is now even harder to beat for search results. So, I do an advanced search looking to see what comes up with my SM address.

Lots of lots of pages even though most of my pages are blocked from Google. Kind of cool except most of the search results are for keywords... kind of boring how it looks but now I notice I have two different results for what is the third section:

• Billions of happy photos, millions of passionate customers. Gorgeous online photo albums. Protect your priceless memories. Buy beautiful prints & gifts
• The first 140 characters that are in my bio.

Shouldn't these two be the same? I've not been doing anything different in a long time but I did start to notice that lame search results like a keyword get the "Billions of happy photos..." and the category topics get the first 140 characters from my bio.

Or is it 255 characters? Here: http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93327 it says 140 but in the control panel it says 255.

Will the 140 characters from my bio show up again in a google search once I change the meta information in SmugIsland settings?

Then it's mentioned that:

Andy wrote: »

Gallery description will trump what's in your control panel.

What if I don't want it to? What if I want what I put in the SmugIsland settings to trump everything?

Currently on my advanced google search, it looks like:

• my SM site has the start of my bio
• categories have the start of my bio
• sub-categories are harder to find, but also have the start of my bio

Unfortunately, no galleries show up in the google search, but are we to assume that the gallery description will trump what's put in the control panel? To clarify again, what if I don't want that?

Or more importantly, is there a simple way (with no custom CSS) in order to add a description for the sub-categories (and have google pick that up)? I like to not have the gallery descriptions cluttered up with text when all that is needed is the title to let people know which gallery of photos to look at. (HINT: a possible problem or annoyance for whenever or if ever more levels are introduced).

Currently, I'm using what I would use as a sub-category description as the caption for the photos in the galleries of that sub-category. It's not very exciting to read the same thing over and over but it at least helps to have my photos show up in the search here at SM. However, it won't help my gallery get seen in the gallery section of the search engine. For that I would need to enter the text in the gallery description, so how do I simply do that (with no custom CSS) and have it hidden? (HINT: I'm about to globally disable my whole site to not have the "gallery updated on this date" listed but I like having the number of galleries and number of photos seen by others.)

Or to compromise, can I have half of a gallery description seen and half hidden? That way my galleries show up in the SM search and my site isn't cluttered at the gallery topic level with a few sentences repeated over and over for every gallery. The ultimate idea is to not slow the viewer down with things to read until they get to the actual photos.

Pure Energy

Oops, forgot to check my results in a different computer that is not logged in.... yep, there's one minor thing to note differently.

1. Accidentally doing an advanced search for my site on google by entering "site: mysitename.smugmug.com" resulted in the text under my web address being different. It wasn't the first 140 characters from my bio but the first 140 characters from the third paragraph of my bio. Doing the search for my site the correct way: "site:mysitename.smugmug.com" resulted in the already mentioned first 140 characters (from the first paragraph).

Amazing how that third paragraph was probably the first paragraph for less than a day, maybe two or three months ago and it hasn't been updated yet by Google?

Something new to add though: I've since did a search for my site using my full SM address, a sub-category title and it's category title.

What shows up is a date at the start of the section under my web address... like May 12, 2012 which reflects when the gallery was last updated. So, I looked up just my site name and there is no date. Just for kicks, I looked up "Moon River Photography" and the date is December 7, 2005. Really?

Why the difference between our two sites or did you add the date to your meta info in SmugIsland settings?

rainforest1155

Pure Energy,
Can you include a link to your site so we can take a look.
Also post the link to a gallery that you last posted to Facebook showing the issue.

Facebook caches information on galleries and photos. So if you posted them before you made changes, those changes may not be reflected until Facebook updates their cache. If you include the link to the galleries in question, we should be able to manually reset the Facebook cache for the galleries.

As for gallery descriptions, they'll always trump what you have in your control panel > settings tab > site description. The only way around it is to NOT add a gallery description.