is it possible to customize the image that you see as a preview when posting the link to your github pages?
I feel like they specifically address the issue for github repositories here, but I dont know how to do this for github pages. Specifically, I want my github page to not just display just a grey image of nothing, when it is showing up on my Featured section on LinkedIn:
This preview image taking from website meta tags. Specifically for LinkedIn enough to use:
<meta property="og:image" content="preview_image.jpg" />
Example from my LinkedIn:
The first two featured items are my personal website pages, and each of them has separate meta tags. It hosted on GitHub Pages, but it doesn't matter where to host. Here is how it's can be done:
<head>
{/* all socials */}
<meta property="og:image" content={previewImageSrc} />
{/* twitter */}
<meta name="twitter:image" content={previewImageSrc} />
</head>
full example (gatsby + react-helmet)
Tried the answer above but my og:image still doesn't reflect on my linkedIn profile. After further inspection , I found out that LinkedIn caches link preview content for 7 days. Changes you made will not reflect immediately unless you inspect your site using the LinkedIn Post Inspector.
Credits to this article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-clear-linkedin-link-preview-cache-ananda-kannan-p
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I need to make social networks for example facebook.com to display website logo when someone put link on it in post, message or share it. I have googled this question and found that website should have this:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fb="http://ogp.me/ns/fb#">
and
<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.lucida.construction/wp-content/themes/lucida-theme/images/logo_for_sn.png" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Home - Lucida ConstructionLucida Construction" />
but it doesn't give any result. I tried to do this on Facebook and LinkedIn and both of them either not showing an image at all or display some random image and not the logo that I've set in the <meta property="og:image" /> tag.
Website I try to share are http://www.resolutemarine.com and https://www.lucida.construction
Any help appreciated! Thanks!
What you did is correct. I don't know about other social media channels but facebook caches the information of your page. So if have you shared your link before the results are probably cached before you made the change in your code (inserting the og:image part). I don't know when facebook exactly clears it but you can do it manually by using their tool (again).
I tried it with one site of your linked domain and it works for me.
So if you want to test it use their tool. Otherwise you just need to wait until they grab it automatically.
Here is the link to the tool - just enter the url that you want to be crawled again by the bot: Facebook sharing debugger
I tried to share my website sometime and it kept on showing me the website logo, till I had to uninstall all plugging and it still didn't work not knowing it was the All in one SEO plugging that I selected a default image when shared on social media, so if you have AIOS installed, kindly check the settings=> Social Networks and selected the social media you want to change the profile picture if you have it installed
I am working on a website and we have a requirement for allowing our clients to share their pages on LinkedIn.
We have implemented a share button using AddThis which seems to work fine for LinkedIn, but manually sharing any of the pages that work fine with LinkedIn (via the Share Update functionality of our accounts) doesn't seem to work as expected.
When manually sharing a link, the link to the page is properly generated, however the title and descriptive text of the page (we're talking about news articles) are not filled all of the time.
It seems that most of the time we are getting the 404 page's title and content, and sometimes just the 404 page's title and the targeted page's content.
Has anyone else encountered this issue? If so, could you tell me where the information is pulled from and how?
To prepopulate a preview of your site's title, image, etc., you'll need to use og: tags, for instance...
<meta property='og:title' content='Title of the article"/>
<meta property='og:image' content='//media.example.com/ 1234567.jpg"/>
<meta property='og:description' content='Description that will show in the preview"/>
<meta property='og:url' content='//www.example.com/URL of the article" />
You would insert these into the <head> block of your HTML.
Source: LinkedIn Developer Docs: Making Your Website Shareable on LinkedIn.
You can verify that you implemented correctly by using the LinkedIn Post Inspector on your website's URL.
I try to add my link to a facebook page. Sometimes facebook loads preview picture, sometimes not (even don't try to load and just add as link, without preview picture). My code has the following lines in head section:
<meta property="og:title" content="[title]" />
<meta property="og:description" content="[text]" />
<meta property="og:image" content="[correct_link_to_image]" />
all pages have format like
[MY_ADDRESS]/jpg/[UNIQUE_CODE].html
links for images have format:
[MY_ADDRESS]/publicThumb/[UNIQUE_CODE].JPG
So, each unique page has unique image
My thoughts - it happened because Facebook caches it. But how to solve?
Thanks
I solved my problem.
First at all, facebook proposes us a special debug tool
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/
If you enter the url to check and click on "Fetch new scrape information" and receive all detailed information, including page error (this was my case, I asked Request.UserLanguages on page and this is empty for Facebook's request, so, Facebook got an error).
Secondly, need to add og:url meta tag (this tag is mandatory to correct work)
Thirdly, og:image should be at least 200x200, otherwise Facebook try to catch any other picture on page
P.S. Seems, russian social network "VKontakte" uses the same tags as Facebook
When posting a link to a website in Facebook (Google+ and the rest count too) you're given a thumbnail, or selection of thumbnails to choose from. These are tags from the HTML.
I've always been of the opinion that it was good practice to make my logo a background image inside a h1 tag using CSS. I make the h1 tag a link back to the home page and hide the header text with something like {text-indent: -9999px}, leaving a lovely semantic HTML header. Here's a link to my site if you want a look: http://tempertemper.net
The problem with this is that as it's a background image it's overlooked.
Would it be a good idea to post a custom at the top of the HTML for this purpose only, and hide it off the side of the page? I don't know, seems a bit messy. I could just put the tag inside the h1, but the logo wouldn't be the right shape as it's designed for a specific purpose.
Maybe there's a meta tag for this purpose or maybe there's a technique to force FB to pull a specific image that isn't loaded normally? Does anyone have any ideas or top tips for this?
Yes, you can set a meta tag so that Facebook knows which image to pick.
See: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/
Specifically, it is the og:image property, and it will tell Facebook's link share script to choose that image as its thumbnail.
Keep in mind though that Facebook does some caching, so if you've already shared the link once it may still be "stuck" on using the older image.
You can see whats Facebook getting out of your website by using the Facebook URL Linter. See: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/ (The use of the URL Linter will also rebuild Facebook's cache)
There is a Meta-Tag to let the Application (like FB) know that you want a specific image taken rather than let the user choose one.
<link rel="image_src" href="http://link.to/image.png" />
For Facebook there is also an other Way to achieve this by using Open Graph protocol.
You need to prepare your Website for using og: Tags by adding the og-Namespace in your html-Tag:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#">
Then you are able to use the og: Meta-Tags like this:
<meta property="og:title" content="Any title here" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://link.to/image.png" />
For Facebook this six og Meta-Tags are required:
og:title
og:type
og:image
og:url
og:site_name
og:admins OR og:app_id
You can find additional information an more og: types at: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/
Like others have answered but it only works for me when i use (https)
<meta property="og:image" content="https://link.to/image.png" />
Instead of
<meta property="og:image" content="http://link.to/image.png" />
what if you did like a img but in css put
#logo{
display: none; }
<img id="logo" src="yourlogohere.jpg">
the image would not show up on the page but i don't know if facebook would see the image
As already said: Best would be to use the metatag with the og:image opengraph property.
In addition to that: Facebook is not the only platform using the opengraph metatags. Also Google+, or Xing are preferring it. Not sure about others...
When i paste a link to my website i would like facebook to grab certain images from my website to show. How do i do this?
i tried adding this right below my title tag but it doesnt seem to work, nothing shows
<link rel='image_src' type='image/jpeg' href='http://www.url.com/myImage.png'>
regards,
alexander
You can use the facebook "Open Graph" meta data protocol.
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.url.com/myImage.png" />
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