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Igor Stumberger

Hey Meta - Quickly check, improve and generate your website's meta tags

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Meta tags enable search engines, social networks, and messaging services get the required information from your website and display it in a visual way instead of just a plain old link. Hey Meta helps you generate those meta tags by editing your existing ones or writing new ones which you generate and easily place on your website.

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Igor Stumberger
Maker
Hey Hunters 😽 I'd like to introduce my recent web project, Hey Meta 🎉 I basically made this because I didn't find a tool (other than Facebook Developer Tools and Twitter Card Validator), that would show me how my website would look like after I've shared it to social media and searching for it on Google. While there were some tools that would show me the meta tags from my website, I needed something visual and a way to see changes in real time There's still stuff I have to work on (and fix), but I wanted to put it out there for you to use. Let me know if you find any issues or if you found it useful to you 😉 Cheers, Igor ✌️
Philipp Reinking
hey @curiousigor, nice product👍 when I update the meta tags on my page, how long does it take for your site to notice the changes?
Igor Stumberger
Maker
@philreinking on Hey Meta it's instantly, but Facebook, Twitter, and Google might take a post or share for them to refresh, but usually, that's pretty quick 😉 The plan is to integrate "sending" the refresh request to those sites from Hey Meta, but I still have to figure how to do that 🤔 If you want to refresh it on their servers manually, you can do it here: Twitter: https://cards-dev.twitter.com/va... Facebook: https://developers.facebook.com/... Google: https://search.google.com/struct...
ahounou khaled
@philreinking @curiousigor I think it might be very useful to implements those manual link refresher in your product so any visitors can use them.
Igor Stumberger
Maker
@ahounoukhaled great idea! Will do! Thanks! 👊
Andy Piper
Hey @curiousigor, nice project! Just to point out a tiny issue - if you check a site, and then immediately scroll to the end of the page and click the About link, the URL is broken (it includes /url/ instead of going straight to /about). Wanted to take a look to see how you handle generation of Twitter Cards meta tags, seems like you're all set - unfortunately there's no refresh API endpoint from a Twitter perspective, it has to be a manual refresh in our validator right now.
Primer
I always find tools like this to be very helpful and in my opinion this is a really nice implementation. Can I ask... what's the ideal image size for an image? I notice that the one image is used to supply three different meta tags. Is there a standard size (genuinely don't know about this stuff).
Igor Stumberger
Maker
@mickc79 while there is no standard size for the images, most social websites use the ratio around 2:1. Facebook, for example, recommends images bigger than 600x315px, while Twitter's minimum requirement is 300x157px. So if your image is 600px or wider, with the ratio around 2:1, you should be good on most platforms 💪
Igor Stumberger
Maker
@mickc79 thanks ✌️
Ashutosh Kumar
It did not work for our website www.clappia.com. It gives this error - "Something's not right. Please check if the address exists."
Igor Stumberger
Maker
Hey @ashu11thakur! I seem to be getting an SSL error, that's why it can't get any details from your website...I also checked with tools from Facebook and Twitter and it seems like they're getting the same response...can you maybe check if something's not right on your side? I'm not sure how to fix that from happening on Hey Meta though but will try...sorry if the tool wasn't helpful to you right now. I'll keep you posted if I come up with a solution 🙃
Igor Stumberger
Maker
@ashu11thakur I've just ran your website through an SSL Server Test https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/... and there seem to be some issues with your server's certificate chain being incomplete...so maybe that's why it's not resolving with Facebook and Twitter, so it might be the same problem on my side...will inspect further but not sure I'll be able to help if it's something with your SSL certificate (not saying it definitely is though)...
Jesse de Boer

Very clean look and very easy and clear use! Would love to have a function to define what type of page it is (product, company) so it can also show which rich snippets to implement.

Pros:

Very easy, very fast!

Cons:

No rich snippets support

Jimmy Kim
Very Cool!
Igor Stumberger
Maker
@jimmykim thanks 👊
ahounou khaled

This product is just as simple as amazing. It provide a fast feedback on meta change and also provide a way to edit meta tags with just clicks. REALLY LOVE IT

Pros:

Clean design, very fast,intuitive and very useful. I like it

Cons:

if possible add a way to refresh link already posted before meta change

Stan Massueras
Top Product
Very useful!!! 🙌
Igor Stumberger
Maker
@stanmassueras thanks 🙏
Kestas Vaitelis
Perfect I was just looking for something like that.
Igor Stumberger
Maker
@kestasvv glad you found it useful, thanks ✌️
Luke Wheatle
@curiousigor Great product, now my websites have the correct meta tags. Thanks
Igor Stumberger
Maker
@extracreative thank you ✌️
Shruti Kaushik
Seems it doesn't work with protocol-relative URL. I tested our company website geekyants.com. We have the image URL as //geekyants.com/images/logo-icon-lg.png and it works fine on social media platforms but when I tried it on Hey Meta, it takes the URL as https: //geekyants.com///geekyants.com/images/logo-icon-lg.png It really doesn't matter much, just letting you know. :)
Igor Stumberger
Maker
@shrutikaushikit thanks for letting me know ✌️ will check if I can find a fix for that 🤔
Primer

I find tools like this invaluable and this is the nicest implementation I've seen.

Pros:

Clean and easy design/implementation

Cons:

Does it cover every possible meta tag? I don't know. But on the surface there are no cons.

Gaurav Sharma

All in all a good tool to tweak your meta tags to make it look good and seo friendly.

Pros:

Fast, Easy and Convenient

Cons:

no cons till now

Frantz Augustin

I like how the tools explain and summarize what is going on on the site.

Pros:

Ease of use + Nice UX and content

Cons:

I don't have any yet

Gareth Burrowes

Nothing yet

Pros:

Easy to use and well laid out

Cons:

nothing yet

Amit Gupta

I've recently posted about my research BigBit Standard. With the help of Hey Meta, I realized that how would it look without image if I'll share it on any social media. So I imediately updated it. Thanks

Pros:

I immediately figured out that I should have meta tag for an image

Cons:

Ummm... probably if it can be extended to analyse favicon as well