When using Facebook Sharer, Facebook will offer the user the option of using 1 of a few images pulled from the source as a preview for their link. How are these images selected, and how can I ensure that any particular image on my page is always included in this list?
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A:
Put the following tag in the head:
<link rel="image_src" href="/path/to/your/image"/>
From http://www.facebook.com/share_partners.php
As far as what it chooses as the default in the absence of this tag, I'm not sure.
Matt Bridges
2009-07-16 15:38:42
A:
Old way, no longer works:
<link rel-"image_src" href="http://yoururl/yourimage"/>
Reported new way, also does not work:
<meta property="og:image" content="http://yoururl/yourimage"/>
It randomly worked off and on during the first day I implimented it, hasn't worked at all since.
The Facebook linter page, a utility that inspects your page, reports that everything is correct and does display the thumbnail I selected... just that the share.php page itself doesn't seem to be functioning. Has to be a bug over at Facebook, one they aparently don't care to fix as every bug report regarding this issue I've seen in their system all say resolved or fixed.
theo
2010-09-02 11:39:12
A:
I finally decided to put a SHARE Facebook button on my 3-year old website (at last!!!)... (I don't like the "I like" button because of count showing...) HOWEVER, I still can't find a way to have button display proper thumbnail when clicked... which brings me to ask: Is that FACEBOOK team a serious team????
Jean-Paul Dansereau
Jean-Paul Dansereau
2010-09-07 11:22:26
You'll have to make sure the icon is of the correct dimensions and that your site has a description as well.
Oren
2010-09-07 11:48:37
A:
When you share for Facebook, you have to add in your html into the head section next meta tags:
<meta property="og:title" content="title" />
<meta property="og:description" content="description" />
<meta property="og:image" content="thumbnail_image" />
And that's it!
Add the button as you should according to what FB tells you.
All the info you need is in www.facebook.com/share/
It works for me :)
Matias
2010-10-18 00:59:39