Social Network Marketing Tycoon

**mkatz** · 11:32 AM

I want it that when I share a link to my site on facebook it includes a graphic with my share post.

My site is: trainerlist.com

You can see that I have facebook-friendly tags in all my pages:

<link rel="image_src" href="http: //trainerlist.com/images/button_find.jpg" />
<meta name="title" content="TrainerList.com - Find a personal trainer" />
<meta name="description" content="Find a personal trainer. .../>

You can see that the image referred to does in fact exist and download:

/trainerlist.com/images/button_find.jpg

I've read many blogs and help pages. It seems like facebook's handling of share graphics has been problematic for a long time. Still, I want my graphic to show and I am asking for help in case anyone can see a mistake that I'm making. Here is some information:

* When I add a link to my site when sharing on facebook, I see it do the little "searching..." animation. And when I look in my server logs I see that facebook did indeed hit my page. However, I see it GETting the page but never GETting any of my graphics. So it feels like Facebook just has my page blacklisted for graphics -- it doesn't even try to get them, even though the graphics I'm using now have different names than any I used in the past.

* I read some about facebook rejecting images that were too small, and also rejecting images that were too large. My current image (trainerlist.com/images/button_find.jpg) is 78px wide by 31px tall.

* I did have this working once, a few months ago. At that time it would let me select from a few different images it had pulled from my site. But I didn't like that because it was showing only a subset of images, and the first image was never one I wanted. So that's when I put in the rel="image_src" thing to try to get it to find my one true image. And it's never worked since then. Even when I take out the rel="image_src" tag now, it never shows a graphic.

Thanks for any help.

Michael

**mick78** · 11:30 AM

Hi there, exactly same problem here with the www automotobookshop.com.au

. Can you please let me know how you mangaged to fix it?
When I am sharing the url through google buzz, it would extract the proper title, no problem at all. However the "facebook share" is only parsing the url, no title, descriptions or images.
I am sure it was working before. if I share the www automotobookshop.com.au/rss.php it would extract the image, so I don't think that the images are causing the problem.
I also tried to remove the right column, the header (top images, top menu...) and footer, removed rss, removed meta tags... nothing helps...!!!!
Thanks very much.

Michal

**smithpaul** · 01-21-2011, 10:21 AM

hi..if someone can help on this issue..

**Andrew12345** · 01-24-2011, 07:47 PM

I think you have no exact idea how you can share it this is the main reason that you are saying you have no idea to share graphics on Facebook.I think you need to see some videos so you can come to know about this.

**Benmoore47** · 01-27-2011, 03:33 AM

I never had any experience like this. If you have a solution on this problem please let me know I'm also interested.