How my Website appears in facebook post

  • Resolved designhousewebsolutions

    (@designhousewebsolutions)


    8 years ago

    Hi there

    I am trying to post my website to advertise on facebook but when I go to post the image below shows how we website appears in description. It states it is a sample page etc etc but I have nothing under customise to change the site identity. How can I change this elsewhere? I need to be able to promote my site on social media.

    Thanks!

    Facebook Image

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  • Bunty

    (@bhargavbhandari90)

    You can use any social sharing plugin.

    Thread Starter designhousewebsolutions

    (@designhousewebsolutions)

    Okay just as simple as that? Sorry I was thinking I was missing something. Seems I was thinking it was a bigger problem! THanks!

    Thread Starter designhousewebsolutions

    (@designhousewebsolutions)

    Sorry that works fine for sharing from my website directly. But when I simply enter the website URL into facebook it still shows the sample page info. Any help welcome?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Use the FB debugger to “rescrape” your site and clear FB’s cache of it.

    https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

    If you load in the Yoast SEO plugin, https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordpress-seo/, you can go down and designate a specific picture to show up on Twitter and another specific picture to show up on Facebook. It doesn’t even have to be in the post, in case you want the featured image to be different than the one shared on Facebook. (That is a per-post setting.)

    Go to the debug site @sterndata mentioned to see what it picks up, and then press the “Fetch New Scrape Information” a few times once you fill in the blanks on the Yoast settings to get it to reload your new image. You can also tell Yoast (in the general Yoast settings) what to use on any page that doesn’t have an Open Graph image set, but I would only do that as a last resort. It will help drive traffic to your site if you have different pictures every time.

    • This reply was modified 8 years ago by Dan Sullivan. Reason: more detailed instructions instead of 'refresh'
    • This reply was modified 8 years ago by Dan Sullivan.
    Thread Starter designhousewebsolutions

    (@designhousewebsolutions)

    Thank you steve and dansully I’ll give those both a try!! ??

    Thread Starter designhousewebsolutions

    (@designhousewebsolutions)

    Thank you so much both of those solutions have worked for me! Appreciate your help!

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