Which image shows up when a link is "attached" on Linkedin?

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whySoSerious picture whySoSerious · Jul 17, 2012 · Viewed 37.7k times · Source

When I try to share a "discussion" (which is merely a link from our website) at linkedin through the "Attach a link", it used to pull a nice image earlier, but it ceased to do so now.

Is there a meta property="og: we should specifically use for linkedin shares to have an image shown?

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Kirsten Jones picture Kirsten Jones · Jul 18, 2012

The LinkedIn share functionality supports a small subset of open graph tags as documented here: https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/setting-display-tags-shares

Note that at least until recently (and possibly still) re-scraping of existing shared pages is broken, so if you've already shared a page and it got the wrong image you're stuck unless you share it with a different URL.

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