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Although not for link previews, Google uses certain schema.org microdata for some search results enhancements. So it's possibly useful for some sites to use that too depending on nature of site.
Yup, Google Structure Data for rich results.
But this is a feature on Google Search that you can implement on your web app and Google will decide when, where and how to show it 😁
Nice post! Thank you for sharing 😀
Thanks for sharing.
You had my like at "It was super boring!" 😄
The link in this post to your link preview tester gives a 404 error.
Thanks for pointing that out, fixed!
There's proprietary junk code for SEO and general vice, and webmasters of popular sites will tell you you don't need it. What drives the visitors and what drags down the performance of your site so bad you don't get any visitors. Huffington Post with so many ads and trackers it freezes my computer vs Google itself which serves very snappy content with minimal junk code.
microlink.io/sdk is also a link previewer...
Brilliant.
I often wondered how the visual preview for links in Outlook email appeared.
I had thought it was something done in the server side.
So
<meta>tags are responsible for this ?It depends on the implementation on (outlook or whatever) side.
What's behind that is usually a crawler of the company that read those meta tags to build a preview or simply take some excerpt from the content (i.e. first image available plus first 200 characters of text).
Usually yes, those meta are the better way to proceed. Otherwise the preview will show some introduction words instead a good description written explicitly for that.
The same way it would show a random image, not necessarily optimized for the format and not necessarily the one intended to be in the preview.
That's why OpenGraph or other meta tag formats appear 😁
Interesting approach, what did you learn by doing it, you didn't know when you started ?