Social sharing on LinkedIn – description not appearing

  • Resolved santiago225

    (@santiago225)


    6 years, 6 months ago

    I am using WordPress version 4.9.5 along with Yoast plug-in version 7.5.1.

    Social sharing on FB works fine. Image, Title and Description tags are used properly.

    However, on LinkedIn, the description is missing.

    All the Open Graph tags seems to be ok:

    <meta property=”og:locale” content=”fr_FR” />
    <meta property=”og:type” content=”article” />
    <meta property=”og:title” content=”Les avantages du consultant indépendant en T.I. | Brome Conseil” />
    <meta property=”og:description” content=”Les avantages du consultant indépendant en T.I selon Caroline De Guire, Présidente-Directrice générale de l'AQIII.” />
    <meta property=”og:url” content=”https://bromeconseil.com/2018/05/20/avantages-du-consultant-independant-en-t-i/&#8221; />
    <meta property=”og:site_name” content=”Brome Conseil” />

    However I noticed that the FB debugger tool gives a warning which seems suspicious:

    caution-solidWarnings That Should Be Fixed
    Extraneous properties specified
    The following properties are specified on the webpage but NOT supported for the specified ‘og:type’: article:publisher, article:author, article:section, article:published_time

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Support Rumejan Barbarona

    (@onlyincebu)

    We do know that LinkedIn relies on websites to use oEmbeds and/or Open Graph Protocol (OGP) to display the most accurate title and description when sharing a URL. If it works fine on Facebook, it means Yoast is outputting all the necessary tags. We’re not sure why Linkedin isn’t picking up the description. I suggest you check LinkedIn’s documentation and contact them for more details – https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/46687

    I was having similar issues involving the title not being what was set in the og tags and no description. I reached out to linkedin, they purposefully do not display the description, wanting the users to write a description themselves but the title issue is caused by the oembed data generated by wordpress, it uses the page title from wordpress instead of yoast meaning everywhere else shows the intended page title, but linked in shows the page name (eg a “Home” page having a title like “Company Name – Company Slogan” but showing as “Home” in linkedin).

    This feels like something the yoast plugin should be overwriting with the intended page title.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by mashbo.
    Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    @mashbo

    LinkedIn has stated in their documentation that they support the open graph protocol, so if the Yoast SEO plugin is outputting the correct og tags, LinkedIn should honor it as well. If you aren’t getting the correct title, then this should be brought up with LinkedIn as well for further clarification — https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/46687

    The open graph tags are correct, but linkedin are using the oembed to create the embeded block and are saying the information needs updating in the oembed. Yoast is modifying the title in the html, adding the open graph tags, but leaving the oembed details untouched.

    Anything that supports oembed is going to receive the wrong information for sharing. I would definitely class this as an issue for yoast to investigate.

    edit: Just spoken to LinkedIn again, they are going to update the documentation to include information about the oEmbed JSON.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by mashbo.
    Thread Starter santiago225

    (@santiago225)

    Thanks, that should be more clear because if we read the specs right now, they are clearly using only Open Graph.

    https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/46687/making-your-website-shareable-on-linkedin?lang=en

    Plugin Support Md Mazedul Islam Khan

    (@mazedulislamkhan)

    @mashbo If LinkedIn updates their documentation for the oEmbed JSON, we’d be happy to update this in the Yoast SEO plugin as well.

    Hi @mazedulislamkhan, I was just checking on this to see if it’s on the roadmap for the near future if I need to fix this myself manually outside of Yoast? Thanks!

    @mikes41720 and @mazedulislamkhan
    I guess that’s an issue with LinkedIn side.
    They have a recently added a LinkedIn Post Inspector tool https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/inspect/

    I tried and checked, but the description is not appearing.
    Awaiting for the documentation at LinkedIn side.

    @mashbo
    How to add oEmbed tags in wordpress or any other websites, do you have any pointers to it?

    Any updates on this @joshibhargav20 ?

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