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WebsiteBuilder: OG Image
If you want to specify what image is used when someone shares/posts/likes your website on Facebook you can add this snippet of code to the tag:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.domain.com/image.jpg"/>
We need to replace the image url with the image you wish to use.
Make sure you have already uploaded your image and published it.
Your picture will look best if it is square and at least 600 pixels wide
You just need to change the URL in the code to the address of the published image you want to use.
After you've added the code there and published you will need to run your website URL through the Facebook Debugger so they will crawl the site and make the update.
Facebook Debugger
To clarify, the code above will go into the Advanced settings in WebsiteBuilder . Even if there's other code in there already, that is ok. Just scroll to the bottom of the existing text/code and then paste in the new code.
- Add the image to an image gallery, place it anywhere on the page and publish the site.
(this gallery does not need to stay on the website, it will only display temporarily to get the image url) - Visit the published site, open the image, right click on the image and select copy image address.
- Paste this url into the code. Remove the current "url" and replace it with the info that was copied.
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.domain.com/image.jpg"/> - Place the tag into the advanced settings. Under manage>advanced> site meta tags.
- Publish. Once you are finished you can remove the image gallery from the site.
steve7810
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2 years ago
Hi, I'm hitting a bit of a roadblock with the OG as well. The site is https://www.coolerbythecoast.com.
I've followed all of the steps in this article, but the FB Debugger still gives me the warning "The 'og:image' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags."
I have this as the site Meta tag: <meta property="og:image" content="https://cooler.homesteadcloud.com/x/cdn/?https://storage.googleapis.com/production-homestead-v1-0-1/041/940041/PPDGj7MZ/c9e77a3871494c08a9d4178f9d40f1a4"/>
But the site preview shows no image at all. I've been patient and waited some time after republishing the site before rescraping, but still no joy. Any suggestions for me to try next?
Thanks for your support!
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catemarvin4806
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2 years ago
Greetings, I have followed the directions as written here, and I'm still getting an error message through the FB debugger: "Provided og:image, https://holygossip.com could not be downloaded. This can happen due to several different reasons such as your server using unsupported content-encoding. The crawler accepts deflate and gzip content encodings."
The image URL is plugged in into meta tags as <meta property="og:image" content="https://holygossip.com/x/cdn/?https://storage.googleapis.com/production-homestead-v1-0-5/285/229285/lWROCgaH/09cd59ed9d0f4ae286c1a5a4149d5155"/>
Not sure what to do next?
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caslawver8268
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11 months ago
I am having problems with copying the photo link once i put it in the galley and publish it. When I publish it and then right click on the photo, nothing. I have read all the comments, so if I am missing the answer I apologize. Any help would be appreciated.
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