Description of the facebook meta tag is not updated

Question

3 days ago I updated the description in the facebook meta tag, but the change is not reflected when exchanging links to facebook. Instead, an old description appears. According to Facebook, it cleans your page every 24 hours to ensure that the description (and other sharing data) is updated. However, you can manually update it by entering the email address in Facebook Linter .

I manually updated it, and now I have been waiting 3 days. When I see the debugger output from linter, it shows the correct updated description, but the old description is still displayed when sharing the link.

How to reproduce:

This is our website: https://www.tradeinsports.se/#tis1 (This is in Swedish, so bear with me, please). If you go to the link above and click on either of the two products available and then share it on facebook, you can see the difference in description from the one that appears in the linter debug output.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

If you use the Facebook Share or Facebook Like button and your og: meta tags are ignored, it may be Facebook’s excessive cache.

The fastest way to clear Facebook’s cache and force Facebook to use information from og: met tags is to draw a URL.

Enter the URL of the webpage containing the og: meta tags in Linter, and Facebook will clear the cache for that page. Your share or how button should begin to extract the correct information from the og: met tags.

Answer 2

Go to this page: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

Enter the URL and click "debug".

Click "Get new scratch information."

This page has a lot of good data that is useful for the social networks of your site.

Answer 3

I also had this problem. The scraper shows the correct information, but the sharing URL is still filled with old data.

The way I got around this is to use the feed method instead of share , and then manually fill in the data (which is not displayed using the share method)

Something like that:

 shareToFB = () => { window.FB.ui({ method: 'feed', link: `signup.mydomain.com/?referrer=${this.props.subscriber.sid}`, name: 'THIS WILL OVERRIDE OG:TITLE TAG', description: 'THIS WILL OVERRIDE OG:DESCRIPTION TAG', caption: 'THIS WILL OVERRIDE THE OG:URL TAG' }); };