Featured image and thumbnail

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September 7, 2023
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What part of a page build do I need to populate to ensure that there is a thumbnail image available for a link preview on social media (such as LinkedIn)? In the "Images" tab of a page template, I see "Featured image" and "Thumbnail" - do these both need to have an image in them?

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Best answer by EstebanBustamante

Hi @aeadams

The thumbnails in social media are generated by Open Graph meta tags. You can learn more about them here: https://ahrefs.com/blog/open-graph-meta-tags/. As far as I know, these meta tags need to be manually set up by you. You can find examples of how to do it here:

Hope this information is helpful.

Dipti_Chauhan

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As Esteban mentioned , social sharing image thumbnail is derived from open graph tag <og:image> and twitter:image for twitter tile. And its depends on you what image you need to put for these meta tags.

Thanks

Dipti

kautuk_sahni

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@aeadams Do you find the suggestion from Esteban useful? Please let us know if more information is required. Otherwise, please mark the answer as correct for posterity.

Kautuk Sahni

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aeadamsAuthor

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@kautuk_sahni Yes thank you!

EstebanBustamanteAccepted solution

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Hi @aeadams

The thumbnails in social media are generated by Open Graph meta tags. You can learn more about them here: https://ahrefs.com/blog/open-graph-meta-tags/. As far as I know, these meta tags need to be manually set up by you. You can find examples of how to do it here:

Hope this information is helpful.

Esteban Bustamante