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    • Jenny Oest
      Jenny Oest last edited by

      When a copy the address bar link for a property page in my website, and try to post it in an email or link on a forum, I don’t get a picture. Is there a way to specify which picture is used for each page when posted on social media or other sources?

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      • Jenny Oest
        Jenny Oest @Jenny Oest last edited by

        Here’s a photo of what I’m seeing now…

        0_1501686895696_missing pic.png

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        • Mike Stachowiak
          Mike Stachowiak MyVR Employee last edited by

          Hey Jenny,

          Generally speaking, when you share a link on a social website (eg: Facebook, Twitter, etc) they will inspect the page you are sharing and look for an “og:image” meta tag. The value of this meta tag will be used as the image when sharing. By default, we will add an “og:image” meta tag for you on all websites, using a relevant image from your site design. Alternatively, you can customize this on a per site basis by setting a custom “og:image” meta tag with your own image url. You can do this from the website administration section of the MyVR application.

          When I look at the page you reference, I see it’s using this image in it’s “og:image” meta tag, which should be the image used anytime you share it. Can you clarify where you are pasting a link to your property detail page? Wherever you’re sharing it may not honor the “og:image” meta tag.

          Cheers,
          Mike

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          • Jenny Oest
            Jenny Oest @Mike Stachowiak last edited by

            @Mike-Stachowiak This example was in my email client (Mac email)

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            • Danny Eiden
              Danny Eiden last edited by

              Hi @Jenny-Oest ,

              I just want to follow up and say that if this is still an issue whenever you post a link to your website, please let us know with a bug report. As Mike mentioned, other websites and apps should be able to find a photo to use when expanding a link to your website into a little preview.

              Cheers,
              Danny

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              • Jenny Oest
                Jenny Oest @Mike Stachowiak last edited by

                @Mike-Stachowiak - is there only one og:image tag for the whole website, or can I specify one for an individual page within the website? For example, if I want to link to a specific PROPERTY page, I’d like the PROPERTY picture.

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                • Danny Eiden
                  Danny Eiden last edited by

                  Hi @Jenny-Oest,

                  MyVR doesn’t currently have the ability to set a different og:image meta tag per each individual page. It can only be done site-wide.

                  Best,
                  Danny

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                  • Jenny Oest
                    Jenny Oest @Danny Eiden last edited by

                    @Danny-Eiden - I like to provide links directly to a property page when I run a special. But if I list 2-3 properties, they all have the same generic picture in the preview pane. Is there a better way around that?

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                    • Danny Eiden
                      Danny Eiden last edited by

                      Unfortunately our current tools don’t support adding custom header tags on a per-property basis for multi property websites. As a result, I don’t think there is a way to get a different image for each property.

                      I do think it’s a good idea, though! It would make a great feature request 🙂

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                      • Jenny Oest
                        Jenny Oest @Danny Eiden last edited by

                        @Danny-Eiden - I suppose this would require a separate Landing site or property website then.

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                        • Danny Eiden
                          Danny Eiden last edited by

                          I’m afraid so. You could create separate single property MyVR websites for each of your properties to accomplish this. You could also create an external intermediate site that has separate pages for all of your properties. This site would need to have a different og:image tag on every property page. It could use Javascript to immediately redirect to your actual website once someone clicks through a link. This, however, would be a fragile solution. You would also lose any SEO benefit that you would normally get by posting links to your properties around the web.

                          Cheers,
                          Danny

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                          • Jenny Oest
                            Jenny Oest @Danny Eiden last edited by

                            @Danny-Eiden - perhaps I could find a way to attach a link to a different photo within the social media platform?

                            Would I lose the SEO benefits if I did the pages as subdomain pages? ex: [property_name].premiumbeachcondos.com, where the site redirects to the property page, but I have the subdomain og:image tag set correctly?

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                            • Danny Eiden
                              Danny Eiden last edited by

                              Perhaps I could find a way to attach a link to a different photo within the social media platform?

                              Maybe! Please let us know if you find anything! If the social media platform supports markdown or HTML, you should be able to accomplish this.

                              Would I lose the SEO benefits if I did the pages as subdomain pages?

                              This is a bit above my personal SEO knowledge, but I would guess that you would still retain some SEO benefits so long as the links you are posting have the same root domain as your main site. That said, I really don’t recommend going down this road. Redirects aren’t a great user experience, and you would need to maintain separate web pages corresponding to every property you have in MyVR.

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                              • Jenny Oest
                                Jenny Oest @Danny Eiden last edited by

                                @danny-eiden - how do I determine what value to put in next to the og:image meta tag? Is there a code number within the site for the photo? I tried the file name but it didn’t work. The default is a photo unrelated to my site.

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                                • Danny Eiden
                                  Danny Eiden @Jenny Oest last edited by

                                  @jenny-oest og:image meta tag should be filled with a full URL that points to an image. You’ll need to find the full URL of the image that you’d like to be displayed. This is one example of a URL for a photo that’s being hosted by MyVR

                                  http://image.myvr.com/682dd6fb6d061f81/b377085b3625eb0a/calypso20140214-444hdr-landscape.jpg

                                  Using this image as the open graph image would be done like so

                                  <meta name='og:image' content='http://image.myvr.com/682dd6fb6d061f81/b377085b3625eb0a/calypso20140214-444hdr-landscape.jpg'>
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                                  • Jenny Oest
                                    Jenny Oest @Danny Eiden last edited by

                                    @danny-eiden so where do I get the full name then for my uploaded photos?

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                                    • Danny Eiden
                                      Danny Eiden last edited by

                                      MyVR doesn’t have a tool that provides the full URLs to the photos we’re hosting. You can use chrome’s developer tools on your website to find the URL of a MyVR-hosted photo like so

                                      1. Right click on the image you would like to use and select inspect
                                        0_1534791204857_Screen Shot 2018-08-20 at 11.52.56 AM.png
                                      2. Copy the URL in the HTML. It will likely start with image.myvr.com
                                        0_1534791254321_Screen Shot 2018-08-20 at 11.53.41 AM.png

                                      Alternatively, you can host an image yourself by uploading a photo an image hosting service

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                                      • Jenny Oest
                                        Jenny Oest @Danny Eiden last edited by

                                        @danny-eiden - Thanks - I’ll try that

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                                        • Jenny Oest
                                          Jenny Oest @Danny Eiden last edited by

                                          @danny-eiden - since the MyVR photos appear in the banner, there doesn’t seem to be anything with image.myvr.com. So I"ll try adding a page with just a photo, not navigated in the menu bar, and use that?

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                                          • Danny Eiden
                                            Danny Eiden last edited by

                                            Hi @Jenny-Oest,

                                            You can definitely try that. The image URL in the banner will likely still work even if it doesn’t start with image.myvr.com. If you see something that starts with // and ends with .jpg, then it’s a working image URL!

                                            Best,
                                            Danny

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