When I share a post to Facebook, the behavior is inconsistent. Sometimes the image appears correctly, sometimes no image is shown at all, and other times the image fails to load and displays as a blank (white) area.
Opengraph is turned on. What is wrong?
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Thanks for using Yoast SEO. I viewed the source of your homepage, and you have not defined an image to show when you share on Facebook. In the social tab of the Yoast SEO meta box, this should be the social image. When uploaded, you should have the og:imagetag.
Though without it, when I tested the URL in the Facebook sharing debugger, Facebook picked a random image and showed this error: The 'og:image' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags. See screenshot. Once you upload a social image, there will be no guesswork for Facebook. It should use the social image.
Where do I find Social tab? So I just paste down the “og:image”?
My client said he has 2 sites. On the other one he simply chooses a post thumbnail, writes news and publishes it. Everything works like a charm. Does the same thing with this page that has issues. He said he doesn’t want to do extra steps in publishing posts since he isn’t an guy form computers.
The Social tab is just under the Yoast metabox. Go edit your post first, scroll down to the Yoast metabox, and then click the Social tab, then you can upload an image there (og:image).
If no og:image is provided, it falls back to other sources, like your featured image (post thumbnail), first large image in the content, or any other images it can scrape.
Ensure that your post thumbnail uses a commonly supported image format like PNG or JPG, and use the minimum recommended dimensions of 1200 x 630 pixels (or a 1.91:1 ratio).
Customizing your Facebook Open Graph (OG) tags is easy, and we have a helpful article here to guide you, so you can explicitly assign an og:image tag for your post, giving your post a bigger chance for Facebook to fetch your og:image.
UPDATE: I uploaded the image in social tab as you said, but despite this, today 2 posts look like this when shared to facebook. Thumbnail isn’t loaded at all. Any solutions for this?
Bad Response CodeURL returned a bad HTTP response code.
Response Code 403
This more of a hosting issue than Yoast.
We recommend contacting your web host to check and fix the error. Once the error is resolved, please check again and let us know if the image is getting fetched by Facebook.
