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This is actually interesting. When Facebook determines the article title, their crawlers go out and pull down the page. It'd certainly be interesting to catch t
by cddotdotslash 10y ago
This is actually interesting. When Facebook determines the article title, their crawlers go out and pull down the page. It'd certainly be interesting to catch the user agent and present a different version if Facebook is detected.
- goshx 10y agoSomeone is probably writing you a job offer as I type this message
- haney 10y agoI've read that google penalizes users if they present a different version of the page to bots than end users (I guess they pretend to be a browser and access the page from an undisclosed IP). I'd be surprised if Facebook didn't do the same.
- honkhonkpants 10y agoPresenting different content to Google's spider vs. users' browsers is the kind of thing that will get you banned from Google. I wonder if Facebook has similar policies.
- Kadin 10y agoI believe that Google's crawler is designed to detect when it's being fed false information, and punishes pages accordingly for it. Wouldn't be hard for Facebook to do the same thing.
- jon-wood 10y agoYou don't have to do anything more than at some metadata to your page which Facebook will automatically use.
- morgante 10y agoYou don't even have to do anything as complicated as that. Lots of sites already use a separate title in their OG tags from what the normal version is.
- artursapek 10y agoBut then the post displays the non-clickbaity title, which defeats the point.