It really sucks when you’re just published an awesome article or when you’ve stumbled upon a really cool site, and when you start to share it with your friends (starting with Facebook where most of us now live our lives), truth hits you in the face: WHY IS THERE NO THUMBNAIL?! Everyone knows that humans are visual creatures, and it affects a great deal (in terms of the number of likes, comments and shares you end up getting) whether or not there is a visual accompaniment to the link you’ve just shared.
So you can imagine my disappointment when I first started sharing my blog, Crazy Curious, on my Facebook timeline and this is what I saw:
And it gets increasing frustrating when you refresh your page and try X times to get that stupid thumbnail to appear, and fail. Good thing is that this got the #geekgirl in me to set out in search of some answers. And the good news is, I found the solution!
Check out this Facebook Debugger:
Amazing how much information about your link it pulls out, and on top of that, it solves your problem.
Oh look, happy days.
Good day! This post couldn’t be written any better! Reading through this post reminds me of my previous room mate!
He always kept chatting about this. I will forward
this page to him. Fairly certain he will have a good read.
Thank you for sharing!
Really happy to know that this post was helpful for you and your friend! I love hacks and solving problems, so will definitely be posting more articles under the #lifehacks section soon. Thanks for passing this along! 🙂