Your Website’s FB Thumbnail
By Anita Sabot - Tue Apr 10, 12:08 am
When your website is shared or liked on Facebook, you may be surprised at the thumbnail that Facebook automatically chooses to use. HOWEVER, you can fix that!
- Go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug and check the actual thumbnail usage by Facebook
- Upload a 250px wide thumbnail image that you’d like to use to your website’s server.
- Add the following between the HEAD TAGS of your website’s main page but change the full URL to your thumbnail image: <link rel=”image_src” href=”http://yoursite.com/yourthumbnail.jpg” />
- The changes might take up to 24 hours but go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug to clear the Facebook cache to use your new image and to view if it is working correctly.
If you are using WordPress, it’s a bit more complicated, but read this article to find out what you can do… http://www.shoutmeloud.com/now-facebook-like-button-will-pick-the-right-image.html.
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