Yoast SEO Tutorial: How to Set Up Facebook and Twitter Share Previews

When a website article is shared on Facebook or Twitter (X), the platform automatically grabs the title, description and image of the page if it is not set up to share information. These are sometimes inaccurate and may show the wrong image or no image.

expense or outlay Yoast SEO Plugin that allows you to set the title, description and cover image for each post to be displayed on social platforms, making the shared content clearer and more attractive. Here are the specific operation steps.

I. Turn on the social sharing function

Scroll down to find Site features
Find Social sharing
Click on the switch to keep it on

This way Yoast adds the hashtag data needed for Facebook and Twitter to the post.

Second, set the default sharing information of the website

If you want the home page or category page to display specified graphic information on social platforms, you can set the default social content.

Open Yoast SEO → Settings → Pages
See Social appearance
Fill in the following:

Default title (recommended to use the name of the site plus a brief sentence)
Default description (a one-sentence introduction to the site's content)
Default image (recommended size 1200 x 630 px, using landscape)

If not set, the platform may display blank orgripperSite logo.

Third, set a sharing preview for each article

After writing a post, you can set up a separate display for it on social platforms.

Open the edit screen of a post or page
Find the Yoast SEO panel in the upper right corner
Click on the icon in the upper right corner to switch to the "Social" tab.

Two setting areas can be seen:

Social media appearance settings
Twitter Settings

Each section can be uploaded:

Customized title (different from the main title of the article)
brief introduction
Cover art (recommended size 1200 x 630 px)

After the settings are complete, Yoast will show a preview of the results, making it easy to check the presentation.

IV. Checking the presentation of social platforms

Before an article is published or after it has been updated, the actual display style can be viewed using the tool below:

Facebook:
interviews https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
Enter the article link and click the "Debug" button.
If the preview is not updated, click "Recapture".

Twitter:
interviews https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator
Enter article link to see preview card style

V. Answers to frequently asked questions

Q1: What should I do if the picture doesn't show up?
The recommended size for uploaded images is 1200×630, using images from the WordPress media library, external links are not recommended.

Q2: Facebook sharing or old pictures?
This may be caused by platform caching, you can use Facebook tools to click "re-crawl" to refresh, in addition, the article must be saved or updated to take effect.

wrap-up

Setting up social sharing previews isn't complicated and only requires a few steps:

Enabling Social Features
Setting the default share image and description
Uploading separate share images and text for single posts
Use the official tool to see if the display works

This makes the display more complete and engaging every time you share a post.

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