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How to Specify Which Image Facebook Uses for Your Website

November 3, 2021November 3, 2021 by Anita Kirkbride

Have you ever tried to share something from your website to Facebook only to have the image cropped funny, or have Facebook not share an image at all? It’s so frustrating to spend your valuable time creating great content on your website or blog and then have it look terrible when shared because you can’t figure out how to specify which image Facebook uses for your website…or how to make it the right size.

Good news…there is a simple two-step solution: design the right size image and upload it to the right place on your website. Sounds simple, right?

Categories Social Media Advice Tags Blogging, DIY Social Media, Facebook Business Pages, Facebook Graphics, SEO, social warfare

How to Get Facebook to Show the Right Image for Your Blog Post

July 26, 2017 by Anita Kirkbride

Facebook recently announced changes to the platform that mean you need to be paying better attention to the back end of your website if you want people to share your content. From here on out if you don’t specify the Facebook Open Graph metadata on each page of your website, you won’t be able to get Facebook to show the right image for your post and it will pull whatever info it can find. If it doesn’t look good, people may choose not to share it. Open Graph is simply a system set up by Facebook to enable communications with a website. In the absence of Open Graph tags, Facebook looks at other data.

Categories Social Media Advice Tags Facebook, Facebook Graphics, meta data, social warfare, YOAST

How to Set Up your Website for Social Media Success

November 2, 2020July 12, 2017 by Anita Kirkbride

In most marketing models, your website is the heart of your business and social media are the arteries bringing lifeblood to it. Social media spreads the word about your website and encourages people to come and read what you’ve written, or check out your products. We often think of social media as standing alone in this but really, if you want want to be efficient, you need to set up your website for social media success, too. They work in tandem, not alone.

Categories Social Media Advice Tags google analytics, SEO, social warfare

Best WordPress Plugins to Rock Your Social Media

June 21, 2017 by Anita Kirkbride

One of the reasons I love WordPress is the flexibility it offers, through plugins, to customize your website to do anything you want. Over 25 per cent of all websites out there are built on WordPress. If you’ve been thinking about upgrading your site, here are some of the WordPress plugins you should consider installing to leverage your social media efforts.

Categories Social Media Advice Tags social warfare