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i am using sharethis buttons on a page  www.differentstar.com

the preview text in the box for share is not picking up this code, unlike this page http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/27/do-this-with-retirement-money-if-youre-worried-about-a-correction.html

it is always picking up the meta tags. pl help.

i am using the below code for preview as per the instructions given in the sharethis website

 <div class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url="http://guiman.com/g/Going-Into-Series-A-Part-Two.html" data-title="Going Into a Series A Financing: Part Two" data-description="In this Part Two of the Going Into Series A series, we will be addressing issues to be aware of when you are negotiating your Series A term sheet. The Series A term sheet contains more than just a proposed pre-money valuation and VC investment amount. It will be filled with numerous other terms – often wholly unfamiliar to an entrepreneur new to equity funding rounds. These terms can profoundly impact the future of your startup, your role in it, and how much you share in any potential exit" data-message="Going Into a Series A Financing: Part Two" data-image="http://grellas.com/images/attorney-david-siegel.jpg"></div>
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I need to understand thing - the facebook screen grab - the content that is displayed there seems to come from the URL - where did the URL come from?
https://www.facebook.com/shareer.php?t=Grellas%20Shah%20LLP%20-%20FAQ%20Small%20Business%20-%20T...

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The content on your index.html page does not contain the content that is showing in the image either

Need to understand what we are looking at and where it originates.
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julian

thanks a lot for your response.

i need the preview of text and image for the facebook and other social media postings to be picked up from the below snippet as per the instructions given in the sharethis website. not sure why this is not coming up.
can you please edit my html file and help me?

<div class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url="http://guiman.com/g/Going-Into-Series-A-Part-Two.html" data-title="Going Into a Series A Financing: Part Two" data-description="In this Part Two of the Going Into Series A series, we will be addressing issues to be aware of when you are negotiating your Series A term sheet. The Series A term sheet contains more than just a proposed pre-money valuation and VC investment amount. It will be filled with numerous other terms – often wholly unfamiliar to an entrepreneur new to equity funding rounds. These terms can profoundly impact the future of your startup, your role in it, and how much you share in any potential exit" data-message="Going Into a Series A Financing: Part Two" data-image="images/series-a-financing.jpg"></div>

thanks
I need you to answer my earlier question.

Where did the URL in the screen grab come from. How did you get to that URL
julian

i get the code from the website (see the screenshot attached)
my index page is in differentstar.com which is a redirect of  http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guiman.com%2Flawn%2Findex.html

they provide customization steps to change the preview and the image. but its not working as it picks up from meta only.

https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?t=Going%20Into%20a%20Series%20A%20Financing%3A%20Part%20Two%20-%20Grellas%20Shah%20LLP%20-%20Top%20Bay%20Area%20Startup%20Attorneys&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guiman.com%2Flawn%2Findex.html
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I understand what you are trying to do but what I want to know is where does the URL come from?

The text you are saying is not the right text - is coming from the URL - so to understand where the right text must go I need to know where this URL comes from - where did you copy this from?

https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?t=Going%20Into%20a%20Series%20A%20Financing%3A%20Part%20Two%20-%20Grellas%20Shah%20LLP%20-%20Top%20Bay%20Area%20Startup%20Attorneys&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guiman.com%2Flawn%2Findex.html

Here is the problem I am having. The second (facebook) link you provide has the following text.
Grellas Shah LLP - FAQ Small Business - Top Bay Area Startup Attorneys, Business Law Attorneys, Corporate Law Attorneys, Small Business Attorneys, Technology Attorneys, IP Attorneys, Patent Attorneys, San jose, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Silicon...
But if you do a search for the word FAQ on the source of the following link
http://www.guiman.com/lawn/index.html

You find no results. The facebook page link has the text that is displayed on the page - in the URL - something is creating that URL with the wrong text - it is not getting it from the source page - (because the text is not on the source page)

So, I ask again - where is the facebook URL coming from?
thanks for detailed reply.
except facebook, other social media sites are picking up the right url and content in the preview.

instead of picking up http://www.differentstar.com, it is randomly picking up an url "http://grellas.com/faq-small-business-1.html" that has that FAQ code in the title. dont know why it is doing that. ( view-source:http://grellas.com/faq-startup-1.html ) (<title>Grellas Shah LLP - FAQ Startup - Top Bay Area Startup Attorneys, Business Law Attorneys, Corporate Law Attorneys, Small Business Attorneys, Technology Attorneys, IP Attorneys, Patent Attorneys, San jose, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Silicon Valley, California</title>)

facebook is picking up some url from the website randomly and not from what i am feeding in the code.

attached is the screenshot that shows the configuration i do to install the buttons on the page.
instead of picking up http://www.differentstar.com, it is randomly picking up an url
What is 'it'?
FAQ URL is picked up by Facebook without I giving it in the code.

Rather than investigating that, can you provide a good share this code for differentstar.com index page?
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You are welcome.