Facebook share not showing image from open graph metatags

Question

I\'m trying to integrate the Facebook share button to my employer\'s site, the title, url, description/intro are all displaying correctly, however no image is being attached. Wh

Answer 1

If everything is OK on the scraped result, try to fetch new scrap information using Facebook Debugger.

This is because Facebook use its own cache for og:data.

Answer 2

In my experience :

• All the URLs should be absolute (even the og:image value)
• If your image is served equally over https you should add a og:image:secure_url meta property with absolute url as well (if you serve everything only over https you can skip this)
• Add as well a og:image:width and og:image:height meta properties

Main url redirection is very tricky, you should make absolutely sure your content is correctly (and fully) fetched, for complex dynamic content I often end up doing a detection in the .htaccess to serve FB’s crawler appropriate content as follow :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} facebookexternalhit/[0-9]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ OG_GENERATOR_SCRIPT_HERE.php [L,QSA]

Answer 3

Without seeing the HTML output from your code, I could only make a guess as to the issue. Don't use a relative url like <%=shortUrl%>, but be sure to use the fully-qualified Url....something that has the http(s):// on it.

Also, http://developers.facebook.com/docs/share/ says that this share button is being deprecated. Please change over to using the Like button instead: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/