<meta information content="websites" />

Let your website talk to us!

<meta content='Carlos Batman' />

Meta informação

  • ​Dados que não são renderizados (normalmente)
  • Comunicação com máquinas ("bots de motores de busca", "screen readers")

Meta tags

  • ​Tags html não-renderizadas (normalmente)
  • Tags que passam informação a máquinas
  • SEO, Rich Snippets, Redes sociais...

Open Graph

The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph - OGP

OpenGraph

Notes

source (data and images): Stack Overflow

If a tag can have multiple values, just put multiple versions of the same tag on your page. The first tag (from top to bottom) is given preference during conflicts.

og:image supports multiple images

OpenGraph 4 Facebook

Characteristics and tips

 

 

OpenGraph 4 Facebook

  • Large and wide
    • 1200x630px (rec.)
    • 600x315 (min.)
    • below this, it is set as 'square'
  • Small and inline
    • 200x200 (min.)

Images

source (data and images): Facebook Developers

OpenGraph 4 Facebook

Can I avoid this?

  • Pre-cache with Sharing debugger
  • Set meta info for image width and height after it:
    • og:image:width
    • og:image:height

Pre-caching

source: Facebook Developers

(...) the first person who shares a piece of content won't see a rendered image.

OpenGraph 4 Facebook

 

Tooling

source: Facebook Developers

Botão para partilhar

  • Não esquecer parâmetro u
  • {{ url }} = url da página
  • onclick opcional (serve para abrir nova janela)
  • Estranhamente ausente da documentação (?)
<a 
  href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u={{ url }" 
  onclick="return !window.open(this.href, 'Facebook')">
    Partilhar
</a>

OpenGraph AND Twitter

Characteristics and tips

 

 

Meta Tags para Twitter

  • Herda meta tags Open Graph
  • Tem tags específicas para definir aspeto de partilha (Card)

Twitter Sharing

 

Tooling

source: Twitter Card Validator

Botão para partilhar

  • Não esquecer parâmetro url
  • {{ url }} = url da página
  • onclick opcional (serve para abrir nova janela)
  • Card não aparece em janela de partilha
<a 
  href="https://twitter.com/share?url={{ url }}" 
  onclick="return !window.open(this.href, 'Twitter')">
    Partilhar
</a>

OpenGraph 4

Facebook AND Twitter

The bare minimum for both, avoiding repetition

 

 

<meta property="og:title" content="Title">
<meta property="og:description" content="Some description">
<meta property="og:image" content="http://image-url-example.jpg">
<meta property="og:url" content="the-default-url">
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image">
<!-- recommended, for analytical tools -->
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="app-id-whatever" />
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@website-username">
  • Title, description and image are used by both
    • image large enough for facebook, at most 1MB (twitter constraint)
  • canonical url: Facebook
  • Twitter card... duh!
  • Social network Analytics

source: The Essential Meta Tags for Social Media

Schema.org

Structured data for search engines

 

 

Schema?

So... what is is?

  • Just a "vocabulary" that defines entities
    • have properties with names and value types
  • Created by some search engine gurus
    • Google, Microsoft, Yandex & Yahoo!
  • Can be inserted in pages, emails in different formats
  • Provide "valuable" and structured data to Search Engines
    • can "optimize" and restructure results in "rich snippets"

Schema

How can it be added to a web page?

JSON-LD (rec. by Google)

Microdata (in HTML markup)

There are others...

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "http://schema.org/",
  "@type": "Person",
  "name": "John Wick",
  "alternateName": "Boogeyman Killer",
  "url": "http://www.johnwickkills.com",
  "image": "http://montrealrampage.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/jw1.jpg",
  "sameAs": "https://www.facebook.com/johnwickmovie/",
  "jobTitle": "Assassin",
  "worksFor": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Independent"
  }  
}
</script>
<!-- just an example of structure, of course -->
<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
  <meta itemprop="name" content="John Wick"/>
  <meta itemprop="alternateName" content="Boogeyman Killer"/>
  <link itemprop="url" href="http://www.johnwickkills.com"/>
  <img itemprop="image" src="http://montrealrampage.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/jw1.jpg"/>
  <meta itemprop="jobTitle" content="Assassin"/>
  <span itemprop="worksFor" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
    <meta itemprop="name" content="Independent"/>
  </span>
  <a itemprop="sameAs" href="https://www.facebook.com/johnwickmovie/">Facebook</a>
</span>

Schema

Example - Recipe 

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "http://schema.org/", 
  "@type": "Recipe", 
  "name": "Fwied Wabbit",
  "image": "http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HaSlBKaJw0I/VKazwDcelRI/AAAAAAAAALs/YlKI80Oh3CM/s1600/bugs-bunny.gif",
  "description": "A dewicious treat for hungwy huntews!",
  "author": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "Elmer Fudd"
  },
  "datePublished": "2017-11-04",
  "prepTime": "PT20M",
  "cookTime": "PT5M", 
  "totalTime": "PT25M", 
  "recipeCategory": "entree", 
  "recipeYield": "1", 
  "nutrition": {
    "@type": "NutritionInformation",
    "calories": "324 cal"
  },
  "recipeIngredient": [
    "Bunny Wabbit",
    "ACME Bawbecue Sauce"
  ],
  "recipeInstructions": [
    "Hunt the wabbit",
    "Add sauce to the wabbit",
    "Fwi it!",
    "Enjoy"
  ],
  "aggregateRating": {
    "@type": "AggregateRating",
    "ratingValue": "4",
    "bestRating": "5",
    "worstRating": "0",
    "ratingCount": "5"
  }
}
</script>

Tested in Google's Schema Markup Validator and made with Merkle's Schema Markup Generator

Schema

Useful tools

 

HTML <meta tags e atributos>

Passar informação ao "user agent"

 

 

hreflang

Links para o equivalente a uma certa página, mas noutra língua

Bibliography

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