Custom Social Media Previews

What is a social media preview card?

Social media previews (referred to on Twitter as Twitter cards), are the little previews of websites you see when you share a link.

These previews come from open graph meta tags that are embedded in the destination page.

Linkly allows you to override these previews with your own title, image and description.

Customising Social Media Preview Cards

1. Login to Linkly.

2. Click Create New Link from the menu.

3. Under Social sharing preview, edit the title, description and upload an image for this link.

When you’re done, click Save Link.

You’ll see the your link, including the preview:

Testing Social Media Previews

All the major social networks provide testing services so you can preview your links before sharing them.

• Facebook Sharing Debugger
• Twitter Card Validator
• LinkedIn Post Inspector