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Asked: 2026-06-02T08:00:17+00:00

I have a FB Like button on my site, but when it gets clicked,

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I have a FB Like button on my site, but when it gets clicked, the resulting “summary of this link” text on your FB feed is erroneous.

I generated the like button when there was nothing on the site’s present URL (I had just registered it). Now, when I click “Like”, the text description that shows up in my Facebook feed is this:

"Learn about HAIKU.LI from this free business profile provided by Network Solutions"

That text shows up underneath the title of my page (which is displaying correctly as "Find Haiku in Your Tweets").

How do I clear the default description text? I’ve tried regenerating the button to no avail. That Network Solutions text is certainly not present on my site. Is there some kind of og tag for description?

Edit

The url for the page is:

http://www.haiku.li

The html for the button:

.fb-like{"data-font" => "arial", "data-href" => "http://www.haiku.li", "data-layout" => "button_count", "data-send" => "false", "data-show-faces" => "false", "data-width" => "100"}

The meta tags in the head section:

%meta{:content => "Find Haiku In Your Tweets!", :property => "og:title"}/
%meta{:content => "website", :property => "og:type"}/
%meta{:content => "http://www.haiku.li", :property => "og:url"}/
%meta{:content => "http://www.haiku.li/assets/logo.png", :property => "og:image"}/
%meta{:content => "Haiku.li", :property => "og:site_name"}/
%meta{:content => "[my FB id]", :property => "fb:admins"}/

Everything seems to work as it should except that it adds in the extra description.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The text (and image, title, etc) that are used in the facebook stories are extracted from the page itself.

    Facebook scraps the url and use the returned data in order to get the info it needs to create the story.
    You can control that data of course by using the Open Graph Protocol and defining the og tags.
    You can use the Debugger (AKA Linter) to check what data is returned from your site and how facebook “sees” it.

    In the Like Button documentation is says this (which is important and people sometimes miss it):

    When does Facebook scrape my page?

    Facebook needs to scrape your page to know how to display it around
    the site.

    Facebook scrapes your page every 24 hours to ensure the properties are
    up to date. The page is also scraped when an admin for the Open Graph
    page clicks the Like button and when the URL is entered into the
    Facebook URL Linter. Facebook observes cache headers on your URLs – it
    will look at “Expires” and “Cache-Control” in order of preference.
    However, even if you specify a longer time, Facebook will scrape your
    page every 24 hours.

    The user agent of the scraper is: “facebookexternalhit/1.1
    (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)”

    Edit

    Ok, I think I know what’s the problem.
    Looking at your code you neither have the description meta tag nor the og:description tag, because of that facebook is probably taking “default description provided by my domain registrar”.
    You should add both tags.

    It’s a guess.

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