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When the button on my website is pressed, I want the link of my website to be shared on LinkedIn. But when the button is pressed, the image I specified in the meta tags does not appear on the share page. In addition, the description and title information I gave in the meta tags are visible.(I am using vite-11ty.)
the link i gave to the button
Share with Linkedin
my meta tags
<meta name="image" property="og:image"content="image-url"/>
Maybe Linkedin cache isn't up to date with your website. You can try using the LinkedIn Post Inspector to see if the info you gave in the meta tags is being returned ok by Linkedin, it'll make Linkedin refresh the data they've about your post too.
If it doesn't work, try the process mentioned in this post (add a query string in the img url so Linkedin will consider it as a new img).
Also, make sure the URL in the og:image tag is public and the right format (jpg or png)
First of all, one needs to make sure one is following all the requirements:
og: tags
Image requirements
Below will also give one example of how to solve it with WordPress, as the approach might be helpful.
If those don't work, one approach is to reach out directly to LinkedIn's Support.
Requirement 1
With regards to the og: tags, they must exist and this is their correct format:
<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'/>
One can add inside one's <head> tags.
Requirement 2
The image needs to satisfy the following requirements:
Max file size: 5 MB
Minimum image dimensions: 1200 (w) x 627 (h) pixels
Recommended ratio: 1.91:1
If the image meets the requirements, but it still does not appear in updates on LinkedIn, one's website may be blocking LinkedIn from pulling the image or the image may be located on a protected directory or website.
How to solve it in WordPress?
In WordPress one can solve this issue by using YoastSEO.
The hyperlink above redirects one to a page on how to do it using Facebook, however, as LinkedIn also uses Open Graph metadata, the data used in the Facebook preview is also what LinkedIn will use.
In order to set up an Open Graph image for individual posts and pages, with Yoast SEO,
you can do that in the Social tab of the Yoast SEO meta box, which can
be found bellow the page content
(as seen on the image bellow):
Notes:
One can test the posts with LinkedIn Post Inspector. If one's content has changed recently, one can see when LinkedIn last updated their data on it, and request a re-scrape.
Relevant reads:
Make your website shareable on LinkedIn.
Share on LinkedIn.
Clear LinkedIn cache: LinkedIn caches the OG tags for shared URLs. Sometimes, if the OG tags were updated recently, the cached version may still be used. To clear the LinkedIn cache, you can use the LinkedIn Post Inspector tool (https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/).
Check for other OG tags: Sometimes, other OG tags may be present on the website that conflict with the OG tags you added. Check the HTML source code of your website to make sure there are no other conflicting OG tags.
Test with other sharing tools: Test sharing your website link on other sharing tools such as Facebook or Twitter to see if the image appears. If the image appears on other platforms but not on LinkedIn, it may be an issue with LinkedIn.
If none of these steps work, you can try reaching out to LinkedIn support for further assistance.
I am setting up Googles RSS Feed for the follow feature. I am following this documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/mobile/google-discover
I have tested the follow feature out - I followed the correct RSS Feed on my site using the follow feature on Chrome mobile, but it just get the message “Waiting for content”. I tried adding a new blog post to see if it would pick that up, but nothing changed. I have successfully validated my RSS Feed here: https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=
Here is an example of what I put in my document head:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://example.com/feeds/blog-detail" />
What am I missing to get the follow feature to work on my site? Do I need to submit the RSS Feed somewhere like a sitemap?
My question is pretty a simple one.
I want to stop my entire domain name from being indexed and showing up in search engine results.
However, I Also have Google Analytics on all pages and want to be able to look at stats.
My question is, by adding the robots meta tag to all pages:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
Will this still allow Google Analytics to gather data, or will this be blocked?
How can I achieve this scenario?
For a bit of context: Yoast seem to explain how to restrict your pages from being indexed, but from what I can see they do not mention Google Analytics or any compromises in adding the robots meta tag:
https://yoast.com/prevent-site-being-indexed/
GA doesn't crawl your website, hence neither robots.txt nor <meta name="robots"> will have affect on it
When I check my WP website's SEO score using Smallseotool dot com, I get this:
"Your webpage is using the noindex meta tag. This means that your webpage will not be read and indexed by search engines".
How can I remove the noindex meta tag? I'm sure I didn't check "Discourage search engines from indexing this site" in the Reading setting.
Thanks
I'm a little confused. When I check for Google Index, I see my website has been indexed. So the seo signal above was not correct, right?
I am trying to share following post/page on my google plus account https://www.schoolmykids.com/parenting/importance-of-father-daughter-relationship/
Instead of TITLE of the blog, google plus is showing me just the site name.
Please suggest how to resolve this issue except for my actual blog/article page all pages are showing correct tile while sharing on google plus.
Try modifying your page to add meta tags with Open Graph properties. This should work for sharing either on Google+ or Facebook. Using these OpenGraph properties you can specify descriptive meta data about your page such as your page title, a brief description, an image, etc.
For example:
<meta property="og:title" content="The Importance of the Father-Daughter Relationship" />
Here are a couple of links to get you started:
https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters