Once you enable sharing from within JetPack, the Open Graph metadata is added to your site. On WordPress, I use the JetPack plugin from Automattic. Screenshot of a tweet on the left, with text that says “Open Graph elements” pointing to the two areas – the image of tentacles around a sailing ship mast, and the text below (URL, title, and excerpt) – inserted using the Open Graph standard In the tweet below, everything below the 240 characters is generated by Open Graph settings on my web site that tell Twitter what to grab and place where. If you’ve ever wondered why some URLs pasted into social media expand and some don’t, it’s because of Open Graph support. If you’ve ever seen a social media posting that incorporates an image and excerpt from a resource, you’ve probably seen an Open Graph equivalent. Now, how to add the metadata? Open Graph Plugin The key element that Google looks for is the Web Statement of Rights.Įasy enough. Frankly, I found the IPTC web site and explanations of its standard difficult to navigate, but I eventually found the User Guide that has a listing of the items. And one of the other open formats, IPTC, is what Google looks for. It’s one of the ways I’ve learned to take different types of photos.īut EXIF isn’t all there is. Under EXIF, you can learn the settings the person used for the camera – lens and other settings – in case you want to try to copy the image or approach. I keep it on because I like to look at other people’s EXIF data and feel like it’s a fair exchange. You can toggle access to EXIF data on and off. Once you have the software installed and configured, Piwigo can display the image’s exchangeable image file (EXIF) format data. All of the featured images on my blog are ones I’ve taken myself. Piwigo has become my main location for public image sharing. I don’t use it any longer because, after some user interface changes, I could no longer find my own photos or manage them. I was also on a web site called Morguefile and you can still my photos there. Someone on Wikimedia Commons set up a harvesting function and grabbed many of them. Even as I was storing them on Flickr, I was noting that they were CC0 or public domain. I use the open source image gallery called Piwigo ever since Flickr put a cap on images for free accounts. You can wrap the photo online with metadata in a web page which will give the search indexer flags to follow. The benefit of using structured data is that you don’t need to touch the images themselves. Bing supports a variety of open data formats, including RDF, Schema, and Open Graph. Google explains how to add metadata using structured data outside the image as well as the necessary metadata inside the image file. I was interested in seeing how to get my indexed images to respond to the License segmentation. A search on Google or Bing will return them under the Images tab. In most cases, you can expose images on the web to search engines and they’ll be indexed. I like taking photographs and post the better ones out in the open.
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