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Facebook ignores og: image when sharing url?

I created a website - http://mati.ravpage.co.il/check4 The website contains one image tag: image and drawn correctly.

However, when I want to share this link (by putting it in a newly created status): it shows two possible thumbnails, by default this is different from the one declared in og: image. You can see it in the following screenshot: screenshot

  • The image displayed as the default thumbnail is contained on the page.

I'm using Chrome and I'm sure it was different a few weeks ago - then only the og: image thumbnail was showing.

I am doing something wrong here, are the og: ... tags wrong or is this new behavior on Facebook?

Thanks in advance, Mati Skiba

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On this page you will find out what is wrong: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug . The image was too small for me (200 x 200 min).



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It might be nice to check the html not only on the Facebook linter, but also on the HTML validator. One of them is the one created by the W3C .

For the mentioned site, it points out a few errors and as <meta> tags also have problems, this could be the reason Facebook parses the whole page for images.

For example:



<meta xmlns="" property="og:url" content="http://mati.ravpage.co.il/check4">

should be (notice the forward slash at the end)

<meta property="og:url" content="http://mati.ravpage.co.il/check4" />
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