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LinkedIn link preview

LinkedIn Post Preview Checker

Paste a public URL to preview the link card LinkedIn will attach to your post: the image, title and domain. The checker reads the same tags LinkedIn does and explains why the image is missing, small or out of date.

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Preview

An approximation of each app’s layout. Apps change their designs and crop images differently.

What to fix

Refresh a cached preview

These results show your page as it is right now. An app that already saw the link may keep showing its older, cached preview until it fetches the page again:

  • Facebook & Messenger: open Meta’s Sharing Debugger, paste the URL and press Scrape Again.
  • LinkedIn: paste the URL into LinkedIn’s Post Inspector to fetch it again.
  • Telegram: send the URL to @WebpageBot in Telegram to update its stored preview.
  • WhatsApp, Discord, Slack & iMessage: there is no public refresh tool. Share the URL with a harmless query string added, such as ?v=2, so it counts as a new link.
  • X: start a new post with the link to see the current card; existing posts keep the card they were published with.

Tags found

Suggested tags

A complete set based on what we found. Replace any placeholder values, then paste it into the page’s <head>, or into your CMS or SEO plugin’s social settings.


          
        

      


            
    

  






  

    

      

        
How LinkedIn builds a link preview

        
        
LinkedIn’s crawler (user agent LinkedInBot) fetches the page when you paste a link into a post and reads its Open Graph tags:

        
    
          
  • og:image — the large image across the top of the card, or a small thumbnail when the image is too small.
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  • og:title — the bold title.
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  • og:description — read, but usually not shown in the feed.
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  • og:url — treated as the page’s canonical address.
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The image URL must be absolute and publicly reachable, and the tags must be in the raw HTML. LinkedIn does not run JavaScript when it fetches a page.
        

          
See which of these tags your page has, and what LinkedIn will show.

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Why your LinkedIn preview is missing or wrong

        

                    
LinkedIn is showing a cached preview
LinkedIn keeps previews for about seven days. If this checker shows the new tags, use the Post Inspector (below) to make LinkedIn fetch them.

                    
The image is too small
Small images are shown as a thumbnail beside the title instead of a full-width image. Use 1200 × 627 px.

                    
LinkedInBot cannot load the page or image
Firewalls, bot protection and hotlink protection often block LinkedInBot. If the checker loads the image but LinkedIn does not, allow LinkedInBot.

                    
The image URL is relative or redirects to a login
og:image must be a full https:// address that returns the image directly.

                    
The post was already published
The preview is fixed when the post is created. Editing the page later does not change a published post; delete and repost if it matters.

                  

      


      

        
How to refresh LinkedIn’s cached preview

        
        
Use LinkedIn Post Inspector (linkedin.com/post-inspector): paste the URL and press Inspect. LinkedIn fetches the page again and shows what it found, and new posts with the link use the fresh preview.

        
Posts that were already published keep the preview they were created with. If you are writing a post and the old preview appears, remove the preview, run the Post Inspector, then paste the link again.
      


      

        
The best share image for LinkedIn

        
        
Use a 1200 × 627 px image (a 1.91:1 ratio) as a JPG or PNG, and keep the file well under 5 MB. Keep logos and text away from the edges, because LinkedIn crops slightly differently on mobile and desktop.
      


      

        
LinkedIn preview questions

        

                    

            

              
            

            

              
Usually the og:image is missing, is a relative URL, or is blocked for LinkedInBot by a firewall or hotlink protection. The checker tests whether the image actually downloads and names the problem.

            

          

                    

            

              
            

            

              
Paste the URL into LinkedIn Post Inspector and press Inspect. LinkedIn fetches the page again and new posts use the updated preview.

            

          

                    

            

              
            

            

              
The image is too small for the large layout. Use 1200 × 627 px and the card shows it full width.

            

          

                    

            

              
            

            

              
LinkedIn reads og:description but usually hides it in the feed, showing the image, title and domain. Make the title do the work.

            

          

                    

            

              
            

            

              
No. LinkedIn reads Open Graph tags. twitter: tags have no effect on LinkedIn previews.

            

          

                  

      


      

        
Check the preview on other apps

        
Every app reads the same Open Graph tags but shows them differently. The checker above previews all of them at once; these pages explain each app’s own rules.

        

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                    Discord
                    Slack
                    Telegram
                    iMessage
                    LinkedIn
                    Facebook
                    X (Twitter)
                  

        
Seeing the wrong image on every app? Our guide Link Preview Showing the Wrong Image? How to Clear the Cache on Every Platform covers the fixes in one place.

      


      

        
See your LinkedIn preview before you share the link

        
Check the tags, test the image, and fix the preview in minutes. Free, no signup.

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