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How do I specify the image that will be shared to social media?
I think you answered your question yourself. You need to have Open Graph tags in your webpage head section. Mainly following are the meta tags you will need to add.
<meta property="og:title" ...
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User profile URL design
For the most part, Google doesn't really care how you structure your URLs (as long as they're reasonably stable & crawlable; with the exception of country-targeting). Think about what you'd want ...
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Correct way to use sameAs itemprop in Microdata
If they have visible links to these social media profiles, it’s the best practice to mark up these links, instead of repeating the links and marking up the "invisible" variant:
<div itemscope ...
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Would removing a domain-verification tag specific to a social media platform (Facebook) have negative effects on SEO?
You shouldn't worry about it at all. Feel free to delete the record as the only sense of keeping it has been lost since you left Facebook
Originally TXT record was intended as a place for human-...
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User profile URL design
When having the username at the beginning of the path, you would have to make sure to avoid name clashes with non-user pages (and, for sites that allow custom templates and forms, phishing potentials),...
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Do social media widgets have any effect on search engine optimisation?
Officially, social media does not have an impact (per Google). However, web site plugins that link people to social media sites may have an impact on click through rates, if enough people use them. ...
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Do Instagram clone sites give juice to linked content?
Links from duplicate and low-quality websites can be harmful, it's recommend that you disavow such sites from your link profile. Also worth mentioning that those clone sites won't even have 1% of the ...
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Is using Google Plus account still worth it for SEO and Social traffic?
To begin...
Google+ has suffered some setbacks lately. Granted. For example, 90% of those with Google+ accounts are not active. And I can see why. The benefits of Google+ seems to be less effective ...
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What could cause a page to stop from appearing on StumbleUpon?
Well, this is little bit too broad because there could be a numerous reasons for this, but I'll try to narrow down.
You are banned.
From this article here you can see many reasons for account being ...
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Correct Schema.org for user-generated social media content
If it’s not a blog post (BlogPosting), I would suggest to use the parent type SocialMediaPosting:
A post to a social media platform, including blog posts, tweets, Facebook posts, etc.
There is no ...
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Is the nofollow attribute present in reddit links?
Reddit links don't carry the nofollow link relationship unless they are from a users page on the network. In the examples you provide, they are followed links.
There is no CSS or Javascript override ...
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How do I use Instagram to post to my business page but not my personal page?
Facebook pages have to be managed by Facebook accounts. You can't have an e-mail address that manages a Facebook page without making a Facebook account first, so that suggestion just doesn't work.
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Do links on social media sites improve my SEO? If yes, what determines the how much they help?
I've been told not to worry about links at all, but instead to concentrate on quality of, and seo focus of web page content. If you think about this, it answers your question.
My understanding is: '...
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Twitter Card - Image not showing
http://sproutsocial.com/insights/social-media-image-sizes-guide/#twitter claims that the minimum image size (in pixels) that will show up in a Twitter stream is 440 x 220 (2:1 Ratio).
https://blog....
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Google says they don't use social media for ranking it and yet I get advice that it is important
Social is to SEO like pool table cushions are to billiards. The cushions don't make shots for you, they make shots possible by reflecting the shot.
SEO still revolves, in some fashion, around links. ...
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Is it duplicate content to post content into social networks?
If you post with exactly same text and images then you should avoid doing that. Instead just share the link on social media with one to 2 line message. Also, as a good SEO practice, you should focus ...
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Preserving social metrics when switching to https
The buttons are attached to the original URL and will not follow redirects. However, my understanding is that this is possible, that is - so save your shares.
For posts created prior to the SSL ...
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Will social sharing help my website rank in search engines?
Google has said many times that they do not use social shares as a ranking signal:
2014: Google's Matt Cutts: We Don't Use Twitter Or Facebook Social Signals To Rank Pages
2015: Google: Again, Social ...
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2 websites same company- different countries. How to set up?
You got few things to consider.
Firstly, website and social are 2 different issues.
Website
If you are going with 2 different website model that's fine but worth considering following points:
If ...
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How to show more results for our brand name when searched for in Google?
There are a few thing you can do to get more visibility on brand searches.
Sitelinks
If you want Google to show more sitelinks on your brand search you should try the following:
Submit an updated XML ...
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Does a facebook like-box or twitter follow pop up hurt SEO
It is unlikely to directly affect your site's SERP performance, but it may indirectly harm it, if:
It makes your page load more slowly
It decreases the user's dwell time on your site
A helpful ...
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How to force Facebook to update an og:image that the scraper didn't download correctly?
You can force Facebook to re-fetch the meta data of a given URL by entering it in this tool and selecting the option Fetch new scrape information. This is useful when you change (or add) open graph ...
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Can format of Facebook page name affect SEO?
First, Google treats underscores as a word joiners so Companyname_aus will be seen as Companynameaus. You should use an hypen as a word separator Companyname-aus if you want to target Companyname aus.
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Is there a standard format for declaring a web page's informational relationship to multiple social media accounts?
If your goal is to cover the most social media platforms, I would recommend using Open Graph tags and getting used to their limitations. The Open Graph standard is supported by Twitter, Facebook, and ...
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Would removing a domain-verification tag specific to a social media platform (Facebook) have negative effects on SEO?
No, Google doesn't track DNS records for search. I think it was in their webmaster chat recently when someone asked, but I couldn't find a reference to it anywhere.
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Instagram 429 Error during SEO Scanning
429 error fires if Instagram detects (or guess to detect) suspicial (automated) activities on account. I think your crawler tries to access Instagram pages through their external links.
Try to exclude ...
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My medium pages are noindex tag in header robots?
This is consistent problem with Medium. Many people try to use Medium to just create backlinks to poor quality content. As a result, Medium blocks indexing bots for a lot of content. Until you have ...
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Target Facebook ads on people who like certain pages (for which I'm not the owner)
I'm afraid you can't target this way. The only way Facebook allows to target people connected to specific pages, is if you are the owner/admin of those pages.
Basically, you only get the above ...
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Exceptional spike in traffic: can Google Analytics help to know the reason?
There is a way to do something close to @StephenOstermiller's answer with "Motion charts" but without having to use Flash (as of today, with Flash disabled in the browser, "Motion ...
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Exceptional spike in traffic: can Google Analytics help to know the reason?
There is a method to do this in Google Analytics, here's what you need to do -
Change your date range to the date where you have the spike only
Compare this range (1 day) to the previous period (...
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