How to Blog?

 So, there was a report in Blogger Help Community which is what made me write this down.  This is in correlation with Blogger & Facebook OG Object debugger . The report was that Blogger blogs doesn't show preview in Twitter card validator . So, I went ahead and tried previewing one of my blog posts and I got the following, Therefore, I tweeted the same link which is here and it didn't show any preview.  Hence, I concluded not just the validator, the whole twitter stopped scraping my open graph information. Therefore, I made a small research and added a tag in my template. Please follow instructions below, Go to  https://blogger.com  > Themes Click on the three dot menu near "My Themes" and choose Edit HTML In the appearing page, press Ctrl + F and find the below code, <b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/> Right after that code, paste the following code, <meta name="twitter:card" content="summ...

Blogger, like the language confusions have one more confusion with respect to Blog description. We have two descriptions setup in Blogger. Blog display description. Blog search description. Display Description is the description that appears when you visit your blog in the header under your blog title. For example, you could see the description of my blog,

Facebook or any network that gets your URL and displays preview, actually scrapes the URL through a system developed by Facebook called the open graph. They might look something like this in the page's source, <meta content='https://howtoblog.krishnainfotron.com/2016/08/facebook-og-object-debugger.html' property=' og:url '/> <meta content='Blogger & Facebook OG object debugger' property=' og:title '/> <meta content='My Facebook preview shows incorrect information. How to fix?' property=' og:description '/> Therefore, while sharing a link for the first time on facebook, the object debugger stores meta information like these in its cache so when you share again, instead of scraping the URL, it takes from its own cache. After a while, when the cache expires, it scrapes again. So a shared URL even upon changing the description/image/title, does not get affected immediately. It doesn't mean, there's no ot...

While sharing on Facebook or Twitter or any site/app where the URL's preview is rendered, we would see description of the page being shared. Now, Blogger added a feature of making that description to be in the way you wish.

In this article, what I am going to say is said by the article header. When I come around the GPF-Blogger:How do I? , I found a lot of questions on "How to add Facebook like box to blogger blogs?" Hence this article will be serving as the answer for those, hereafter.