Our company needs to publish a post on Linkedin to the following page, which exists in French and English. Problem: Linkedin recognizes the og:image property in French, but not in English.
The urls: https://www.bsit.com/en/bsit-business (EN) https://www.bsit.com/fr/bsit-business (FR) I've set og:image properties on both so that each shows a specific image thumbnail when sharing on social media. The website uses Grav, btw.
The issue: When trying to share the French link on Linkedin, the proper image thumbnail shows up. For the English link, it doesn't show the picture specified in the og:image property but another image use within the landing page.
What I've tried: Adding a random query at the end of the url ('/bsit-business?1') gives the right thumbnail. Adding a '?utm' query (which I'd like to use) doesn't fix the thumbnail, for some reason. The FR page works fine, so I doubt it's because I didnt include the og prefix on my website... Images exist, og:image links are correct, dimensions and filesize respect requirements. Everything works fine on Facebook.
Thanks for your help!
The problem certainly doesn't exist anymore.
So, what happened? Probably a caching issue, as LinkedIn likes to cache pages. You can invalidate the cache by loading up your website in the LinkedIn Post Inspector.
LinkedIn Post Inspector : This is likely the best tool, as it tells you how everything displays (image, title, url, etc.) and why it made that decision (
og:tags, title/html tags, other tagging systems, etc.).If it still doesn't invalidate the cache and reupdate the info available, try checking
example.com?somerandomthing=test. Since the URL is technically different, and since you're probably not doing any logic based onsomerandomthing, this should cause a fresh, pull of the page data for inspecting.