I am using the Google + share url, e.g. :
<a href="https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://www.domain.com" target="_blank" ></a>
but the page I am directed to in the browser is always in German - why is this?
I realise that Chrome translates the page but my audience will only be English speakers so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas.
EDIT
Just thinking that it might be relevant to know that the url is a facebook fan page tab so I'm not sure if Facebook comes into this aswell and that's why it's happening.
I just ran your code off my own site and it was fine. The only thing I changed was I url encoded the link you are trying to share. Try opening the link directly in your browser to see if it solves the problem.
https://plus.google.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdomain.com
The I don't know why it would redirect you to the German site, but let me know if this fixes the problem.
I am prety shure that the language of the site is determined by your ip. I am sitting in germany and also get the page rendered in german. I changed the language of my browser to en-usa but it stays german.
EDIT
use the parmeter hl
https://plus.google.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdomain.com&hl=en
https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/share/#available-languages
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Question is the following, we have site with video. Where address is video title, which can changing all the time. For example user upload video and name it "nice video" then he rename it to "nice video in London". So in this case URL also changed from "http://example.com/video123/nice-video" to http://example.com/video123/nice-video-in-london.
From my research I found that dailymotion using canonical pointing to the page without any keywords in the URL (example.com/video123). So question which URL will be in SERP?
Question, how should we care of this? Thank you so much in advance for any suggestions on it.
Regards,
Constantine
Answer: You will put in the canonical link the link of the page that you intent to give the credit to. The page that is gonna show on SERP is the one its' link is INSIDE the canonical link tag and not the one that HAS the tag.
Why:
Page0 = http://example.com/video123/nice-video-in-london
Page1= http://example.com/video123/nice-video
The canonical link is used so u can make clear to the crawl bots the page is a "dublicated content" and the original is the "canonical link". So in your example the search engine is looking at the page 0 which is "http://example.com/video123/nice-video-in-london" and find a canonical tag. The search engine understands that this is a dublicated content and looks at the link in the canonical tag (canonical=---->original page1"http://example.com/video123/nice-video"<----) and realises that every traffic u are getting from page 1 should be added to the traffic of page 0. And for that reason the page 1 --->video123/nice-video-in-london.<--- is getting zero traffic while the page 0 --->video123/nice-video<--- is getting traffic accounted for both pages AND this page will show on SERP for obvious i think reasons.
Let me know if u have more questions on that or if you need some more details on how or why it works that way.
i have a problem with sharing links of my website in Google+. So, if i want to share a link of my website (http://www.droidwiki.de/Hauptseite) G+ say, that the webpage can not be loaded. Same problem is with the Google +1 button on the page. If someone click this button, it appears a red exclamation mark. Sometimes, only the URL, but no opengraph data will show, but the most time, it only doesn't work. Other websites work perfectly with the account.
The same pages work without errors on facebook, will show the title of page and the opengraph description.
Have anybody the same problem, or a solution?
Thanks!
I'm not seeing any of the errors you're reporting.
While OpenGraph is supposed to work with Google's bot, it often doesn't work that well. Best practice is also to include schema.org microdata so Google's plus bot and search bot process it. See https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/ for details and http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets for a tool to help you test your markup.
I tried searching for similar posts but none of them satisfied my need. Hence I have to ask a new question
I have some domain space on my university website like this <university>.edu/~<myname> which is actually <university>.edu/~<myname>/index.html
I want all the traffic from here to go to <myname>.wix.com/resume. But I don't want other pages like my <university>.edu/~<myname>/somethingelse to redirect anywhere.
Also I want the address bar to still show <university>.edu/~<myname> even when it has readirected to my site on wix.com.
Kindly let me know if this is possible.
Thanks in advance.
No browser that I know of will allow itself to be redirected to a different site, without displaying the URL of the new site in the address bar. However, there are ways that you can display content from <myname>.wix.com/resume on your page at <university>.edu/~<myname>/index.html. One way is to use a frame (or an iframe) on <myname>.wix.com/resume which would load content from <university>.edu/~<myname>/index.html. Another (perhaps more seamless) solution would be to use a server-side scripting language (such as PHP) to create a script at <university>.edu/~<myname>/index.php which would download the content 'on the fly' from <myname>.wix.com/resume and display it at <university>.edu/~<myname>/index.php.
Example an online learning application that you want to share your results which are behind a logged in part of your site. So you add a public URL to your site for google to fetch the content (img, description, title):
data-href="http://www.example.com?result_id=24".
But then when someone views the post and sees the shared content and clicks the link to the site it goes to:
http://www.example.com?result_id=24
The only way I can think of is redirecting the user to http://www.example.com once they land on the shared URL.
Is there an official way or better way to do this?
Thanks
No, but there is a work around.
The URL that you share is used for both the snippet and place users are sent when they click.
However, you can put schema.org or OpenGraph markup on these pages that describes the content behind the login wall. This will allow you to specify a title, description and thumbnail. You can read more about configuring your snippet on Google Developers.
I'd like to bring Safari to the front (switch to) but without using a URL, instead I'd like to see the "pages" view so the user can pick an already loaded page. Is this possible?
We open links in Safari and if the user returns to the app and selects the link again, I'd rather let them pick which Safari page to browse instead of opening a new one. I know that if the same URL is called it will open the correct page but the user may have navigated within the original site so the url no longer matches.
Thanks,
Rick
I don't think that its possible, i would use a UIWebView inside your app in order to get that experience you want, you can find the UIWebView apple docs here (http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UIWebView_Class/Reference/Reference.html) and also the equivalence of c# methods here (http://tirania.org/tmp/rosetta.html) hope this helps
Alex
Your app doesn’t get control of Safari’s UI. You might, however, be able to design your site so that it handles navigation via Javascript—AJAX and whatnot—so that the actual page URL doesn't change, and thus so that the page, re-opened from your app, brings up the existing Safari page. Of course that introduces further problems with your pages no longer being bookmarkable, but you might find that an acceptable tradeoff.