When posting a link on Facebook, it’s important that the information Facebook pulls out from the site your linking too looks credible – especially if you want your Friends and Fans to click through!
Have you ever wondered when posting your link, why there’s sometimes an image thumbnail next to the page description and sometimes there’s nothing.
And sometimes an image appears that has nothing to do with the link what so ever!
That’s because when you attach the link to your post you’ll find that Facebook quickly scans the page for images. This is a fairly random scan and it doesn’t always produce the results you want it to.
But there’s a really easy solution…
All you need to do is paste the following code into the header section of the page you’re linking to (or if it’s a third party site, ask the webmaster to do this)
<link rel=”image_src” href=”image file name” />
and replace image file name with the location and file name of the image on your server.
so if the image I want to display is in the images folder on my site and is called avatar.gif, I’d use the following line of HTML on my page
<link rel=”image_src” href=”images/avatar.gif” />
easy stuff!
Clarke
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