Facebook Shares and the rel="canonical" tag
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We use canonical tags for multipart videos, using part 1 of the series as their canonical tag. The logic behind this is that if you have eight parts, it's better for part 1 to get all the link juice for the entire series, so that when someone searches for the main keyword, part 1 is the highest ranked part to appear in search results, and the link juice from every part is aggregated into that one page.
The problem is the Facebook made changes to their URL sharing practices to reflect the canonical tag. So as long as the tag is used Facebook ignores the image and description from say part 2, and uses the description from part 1.
Can this be waived by using Facebook Open Graph Protocol?
Thanks!!
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Use "og:url" with URL of the page itself and "og:description" to take description from the individual pages.
After Google released rel="next" and rel="prev", usage of canonical for non identical pages is not advisable.
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