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Google Authorship, Open Graph and other techie challenges

Experimenting with new metadata from Facebook and Google.
Google Authorship, Open Graph and other techie challenges

Inspired by a talk by Martin Belam yesterday, I’ve spent a little time today exploring things like Open Graph metadata and Google Authorship.

This stuff is right on the edge of my (very) limited techie abilities. I’m a journalist, not a coder, dammit… 😉

However, if all has gone according to plan, entries from the blog should now look at LOT better if shared on Facebook or Google+, and my smiling face should start appearing in Google search results opposite my posts. Let’s see if it all works, shall we?

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