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Checking your work for Facebook

Checking your work for Facebook - HTML Tutorial

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Checking your work for Facebook

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- [Instructor] Once you've created the Open Graph tags in the head of your document, you should put the page online somewhere where it can be reached by the Facebook Sharing Debugger. This means you could have added those Open Graph tags to the head of a WordPress site, the top of your JavaScript-based application or in the head of your Static HTML webpage, which is what I did here. That page needs to be on the internet, not solely on your local computer, so that the Debugger might index it. So go on ahead and use FTP or GitHub or whatever you want to use to get that page on some web hosting right now. And when you've done that, copy whatever your address happens to be to get to that webpage and then we're going to go ahead and paste that into the Facebook Sharing Debugger, which is at developers.facebook.com/tools/debug. Go on ahead and hit the debug button once you've pasted that URL in and it will tell you that this URL hasn't been shared on Facebook before. Shocking, you just put…

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