You don’t want your social shares looking like this:
Your featured images should be 1600×840 to fit in the Open Graph and social posts, like this one from this migraine doctor.
Fortunately, the social networks have validator URLs we can test before making posts.
Here’s Facebook URL validator, which will give you additional warnings on errors to fix.
And here is Twitter’s card validator, so you can see what articles look like when shared as tweets:
And, of course, on LinkedIn:
Fixing a simple issue like this can be the reason why your social shares get low engagement.
You can go further to make sure that you’ve set your open graph tags, canonical URLs, and other fundamental SEO issues.
Dennis Yu
Dennis Yu is the CEO of Local Service Spotlight, a platform that amplifies the reputations of contractors and local service businesses using the Content Factory process. He is a former search engine engineer who has spent a billion dollars on Google and Facebook ads for Nike, Quiznos, Ashley Furniture, Red Bull, State Farm, and other brands.
Dennis has achieved 25% of his goal of creating a million digital marketing jobs by partnering with universities, professional organizations, and agencies. Through Local Service Spotlight, he teaches the Dollar a Day strategy and Content Factory training to help local service businesses enhance their existing local reputation and make the phone ring.
Dennis coaches young adult agency owners serving plumbers, AC technicians, landscapers, roofers, electricians, and believes there should be a standard in measuring local marketing efforts, much like doctors and plumbers must be certified.