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Google +1 Generated Thumbmail in Profile

When you press the google +1 button on a site it grabs the typical meta data such as title and description. I thought it might be looking for the first image in the first article tag, but I tried changing the image and the thumbnail did not change. Does anyone know how the thumbnail is generated? Can it be added as meta info (similar to facebook likes)? Can it be linted?

The thumbnail i'm talking about:

google+ thumbnail

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Dan Avatar asked Jul 08 '11 17:07

Dan


2 Answers

There aren't any tools for developers on google+ yet.

You can subscribe for developer news

https://services.google.com/fb/forms/plusdevelopers/

API is available now

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genesis Avatar answered Nov 04 '22 07:11

genesis


http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/+1/button/index.html

<!-- Update your html tag to include the itemscope and itemtype attributes -->
<html itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/LocalBusiness">

<!-- Add the following three tags inside head -->
<meta itemprop="name" content="title of your content">
<meta itemprop="description" content="description">
<meta itemprop="image" content="image url">
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dr burns Avatar answered Nov 04 '22 07:11

dr burns