Website thumbnail on other websites

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I just added my personal website http://oatmeeel.com/ to my Linkedin. It appears that there is no thumbnail/icon showing on my LinkedIn (https://ca.linkedin.com/pub/oat-wongsajjathiti/63/55b/967)

How do I add some sort of an image (like favicon) to any links to my website from other websites. Sorry if I'm being unclear. Here is an image of my issue.

Thank you

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 16 '15 at 20:51

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I believe Linkedin uses three open graph protocols, one of them being image to scrape an image to use from your website. Scrolling through your source code I didn't see one. Try adding <meta property="og:image" content="http://URLTOYOURIMAGE" /> to the of your website and see if that changes anything.

answered Sep 16 '15 at 20:51

Devin Luby

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Thank you for your suggestion. It didnt work for me though. – Nitsorn Wongsajjathiti Sep 16 '15 at 22:26
Also: (From LinkedIn)The first time that LinkedIn's crawlers visit a webpage when asked to share content via a URL, the data it finds (Open Graph values or our own analysis) will be cached for a period of approximately 7 days. – Devin Luby Sep 16 '15 at 22:36
also @NitsornWongsajjathiti you've set your metadata content property to `` the URL needs to point to an image. Example: – Devin Luby Sep 16 '15 at 22:44
Thank you @DavidLuby. I have made the changes and hopefully it will work after the cache is cleared. I will keep you updated. – Nitsorn Wongsajjathiti Sep 17 '15 at 03:34
Awesome! Let me know, I'll look at other options if it doesn't work! – Devin Luby Sep 17 '15 at 03:35

Website thumbnail on other websites

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