Linked In linking to Root Website showing no image

This might be by design – not sure, but I added a “featured website” to my LinkedIn profile and linked directly to my homepage showing the Tracks theme. There was no image associated with it.

I assume I can work around this by linking directly to a post rather than the root page on the website, but is there any way I can associate an image with the root page of the website to get it to show up on LinkedIn?

EDIT> Found this on the web.

Posting a URL (link) to LinkedIn causes LinkedIn to fetch an image from that page to use as a “preview” in your LinkedIn post.

This image is pulled from your website’s opengraph code in the website header – the “og:image” property, which is generated by the Genesis framework. This is loaded by default by our themes.

The “og:image” property is only present on pages that have a featured image set – this is usually posts and pages, though sometimes can be configured for indexes.

Your homepage, and pages that don’t have a featured image set won’t have this.

If there is no og:image meta tag set, LinkedIn may simply pull the most “relevant” image it finds – it’s unknown how this is determined.

It is possible to set a default featured image, however this is a customization

I think the customization where you associate an og:image with the main site is what I’m after. Any idea how to do this?

Thanks in advance! ??

• This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by kevinlambert.
• This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by kevinlambert.