Flodesk Link Preview Not Working in Linkedin? Try this!
I recently created a full page form in flodesk for an offering, 20 euros off a website audit when you sign up for my newsletter.
Everything was going well until I went to share the link on Linkedin and the link preview was NOT the image for my form, but an advertisement for Flodesk. I quickly deleted the post and went back to Flodesk.
Once in Flodesk, I edited the link preview. To do that you’ll go to the “Forms” page and click the three dots in the right-hand corner of the form you want to share. Then you’ll hit “edit link preview”
From there, you can add the title, image, and description you want to be displayed when you share your link on social media, for example.
But, when I saved my link preview and then went to share it on Linkedin, it didn’t work. Instead, the same Flodesk advertisement popped up. FML. I deleted the post and went to bed, hoping that it was a cache issue on Linkedin’s end and that it would be resolved the next day.
But the next day… the same thing happened. Flodesk Ad instead of my form’s image.
That’s when I did a little research and found out about Post Inspector, a tool that allows you to submit the updated URL to Linkedin, which updates the URL within Linked and allows your new link preview to pop up instead. If you DON’T take this step, however, it can take Linkedin 7 days to update your link preview after editing it. Sheesh!
So here you go, hope it helps!: https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/
