Can't fix: 'og:image' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags

Kevin Bright picture Kevin Bright · Jan 9, 2017 · Viewed 91.4k times · Source

I have a website that triggers a warning when clicked through a link shared on facebook. The warning says: "Possible problem with this link We have detected that this link: http://www.sjap.online/ may be malicious. To keep your account and device secure, only follow links you trust."

I ran the facebook debug tool and I get the following error message:

Inferred Property
The 'og:image' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.

Inferred Property
The 'og:image' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.

I googled this issue and I understand it is caused by some lack of meta information in the site header, but my site's code has the following in the header:

<meta http-equiv="etag" content="2efdc27c8967f14e2c829e601f7a1228"/>
<meta property="og:title" content="South Jersey Aerial Photograpahy"/>
<meta property="og:type" content="website"/>
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.sjap.online/"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/56a444_9273e80a60684dc8b38e56025059f356%7Emv2_d_3200_1800_s_2.png"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="South Jersey Aerial Photograpahy"/>
<meta property="og:description" content="South Jersey Aerial Photography is South Jersey's premier aerial photography and aerial videography company. Fully licensed and insured. Contact us today!"/>
<meta name="SKYPE_TOOLBAR" content="SKYPE_TOOLBAR_PARSER_COMPATIBLE"/>

I have no idea how to fix this error message. The property metatag is clearly there.

Answer

Oleg Cherr picture Oleg Cherr · Jun 9, 2017

In short, you should re-fetch your website information using this tool: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

Paste your URL and press Debug. Then either do Fetch, or press Scrape Again. This will refresh Facebook cache, and your html-page will be reloaded.

Some additional info: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44453472/4899346