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====== Tellmaps Social Networks ======

The goal of this spec is to outline how the header of the static server-delivered page should be crafted in order to display per-social network custom format of the included share link snippet.

===== Prerequisites =====

==== Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ ====

These networks display shared link as a snippet attached to custom share post message (which the user types in when sharing).

In order to deliver a custom snippet for each social network, a different static link has to be provided for each one, as there is no way to make differing headers for all the networks in one HTML page.

Therefore, I strongly suggest to have a GET parameter as follows:

<code>
http://tellmaps.com/?subject=WDAIND01&sharing=facebook
http://tellmaps.com/?subject=WDAIND01&sharing=linkedin
http://tellmaps.com/?subject=WDAIND01&sharing=googleplus
</code>

Server-side should then determine which information to send. All information is contained in ''<html>'' and ''<meta>'' tags.

**I don't recommend to share the urls in new URL format. A fallback which the server will process and redirect to new URL format is the most reliable solution, as the new URL format may be google-crawlable, but support in share snippet may vary.**

==== Twitter ====

Actually, there is no way to display a snippet for twitter. Therefore, we will leave the "tweet" feature the same as in current tellmaps.

===== OG tags specification =====

This OG format is well supported in all three social networks and probably many more. The only exception is missing description in Google+. This is not documented and there is the only information I found in that matter: http://www.seoskeptic.com/google-quietly-removes-descriptions-from-snippets/

First, place this into the ''<html>'' tag:

<code html>
<html lang="en" prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#">
</code>

Then, according to given social network, provide these META tags:

<code html>
  <meta property="og:title" content="This should display as snippet title"> <!-- can be an item name in tellmaps -->
  <meta property="og:type" content="website"> <!-- keep always -->
  <meta property="og:url" content="full-url-to-given-item">  <!-- this can be without the ?sharing GET param, however most social networks use the shared URL, not this one -->
  <meta property="og:description" content="snippet description, displays under the link and site name"> <!-- google+ ignores any description -->
  <meta property="og:image" content="full-path-to-image-1">  <!-- one or multiple images --> 
  <meta property="og:image" content="full-path-to-image-2">
  <meta property="og:site_name" content="tellmaps.com">  <!-- optional, not found to work well in most networks --> 
</code>
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