By Octane on Tuesday, January, 20th, 2015 in Development,Octane Blog. No Comments
Recently we have had a lot of customers asking us how to fix the Facebook sharing image. When a business owner shares their new site on Facebook, sometimes the image that gets tied to the link, does not show the correct image or just shows the first image that appears on the page.
We have run into this problem several times, and have different ways of solving it. The one tool we use to check if the image is loading correctly can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
Once on this “Open Graph Object Debugger” page enter the URL of your website, and it will tell you the Open Graph information for your site. You might see some warnings telling you the “og:image is not defined” and that is where we need to fix the problem.
There are two ways of doing this:
1.) Use Yoast SEO plugin to help fix the problem.
2.) Insert HTML into the Header
You can change the sharing image by inserting this line of code:
1 | <meta property="og:image" content="https://yoursite.com/uploads/facebook-sharing-image.png" /> |
There are several ways of adding this code to your website:
Give us a call at 770-853-9625 today.