How to customize the Image shown when posting a URL of a website on Social Media sites

Question

I have seen that when we put a url of a website, an image appears for that URL. Examples include social media sites Like Google+, Facebook, Instagram. I need to know how to

Answer 1

Add the following tags to the section of the HTML code of the page you need to share:

And replace {image} with the URL of the page image.

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When you add the tags, Social Media sites can still share the page without an image. It happens because sites cache pages data. You need to wait the cache to be cleaned or clean it manually (some sites, e.g. Facebook, provide this possibility; it is a topic for another question).