How To Include The Blog Post Description When You Share On Facebook

This article shows how to make that the description is correctly shown when one of your blog-posts is shared on Facebook. When you share one of your blog-posts using either the via the "what's on your mind" space on Facebook or the Facebook share button on your blog, you may find that the only information automatically shown is: A picture (hopefully, but not always from the post) The post title The blog URL or the post URL But many people want the post-description to be included too. There are two things which you need to do to make sure that this happens correctly. Step 1: Add search descriptions to your blog-posts If a post does not have a description, Facebook will sometimes try to estimate one based on the contents. But this is not reliable, and it depends on the blog template you have used, and possibly even on other factors, eg at one stage, Facebook just looked for the the first (paragraph) tag with at least 120 characters in it - which gave very ...