Google Not Pulling in Feature Image or Description

Here are the meta tags from WPSSO:

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<meta name="generator" content="WPSSO 2.6.7G" />
<link rel="publisher" href="https://plus.google.com/+DanielMRoseCatalytic" />
<meta itemprop="description" content="When someone says your name, what comes to other people&rsquo;s minds? This is your reputation. Reputation is the second step of really living into a place. It is, in a sense, the legend of ourselves in our community. Incarnation &ndash;> Reputation &ndash;> Conversation &ndash;> Confrontation &ndash;>..." />
<meta property="fb:admins" content="danielmrose" />
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="378960709007" />
<meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Subversive Journey" />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://danielmrose.com/2014/10/be-known-build-a-reputation/" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Be Known, Build A Reputation" />
<meta property="og:description" content="When someone says your name, what comes to other people&rsquo;s minds? This is your reputation. Reputation is the second step of really living into a place. It is, in a sense, the legend of ourselves in our community. Incarnation &ndash;> Reputation &ndash;> Conversation &ndash;> Confrontation &ndash;>..." />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
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<meta property="article:publisher" content="https://facebook.com/danielmrose" />
<meta property="article:section" content="Religion" />
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You have some duplicates created by another plugin, which isn’t good at all (generates errors for Facebook and other crawlers). You should disable that plugin.

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<meta property="fb:app_id" content="378960709007" />
<meta property="fb:admins" content="500023166" />
<meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Subversive Journey" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Be Known, Build A Reputation" />
<meta itemprop="name" content="Be Known, Build A Reputation" />
<meta property="og:url" content="https://danielmrose.com/2014/10/be-known-build-a-reputation/" />
<link rel="canonical" href="https://danielmrose.com/2014/10/be-known-build-a-reputation/" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:description" content="When someone says your name, what comes to other people's minds? This is your reputation. Reputation is the second step of really living into a place. It is, in a sense, the legend of ourselves in our community.

Incarnation –> Reputation –> Conversation –> Confrontation –&gt" />
<meta itemprop="description" content="When someone says your name, what comes to other people's minds? This is your reputation. Reputation is the second step of really living into a place. It is, in a sense, the legend of ourselves in our community.

Incarnation –> Reputation –> Conversation –> Confrontation –&gt" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://danielmrose.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/michigan-ave.png" />
<meta itemprop="image" content="https://danielmrose.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/michigan-ave.png" />
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Try disabling that other plugin and see if that helps. Keep in mind that crawlers have minimum and maximum image sizes they require, and will ignore images that fall outside those sizes. Not to mention aspect ratios as well. This is one reason why WPSSO provides images in a very specific size (no other plugin I know of does this).

js.

Alright, will do.

I pulled the other plugin. I will give it a day or so and check back with you. Thanks for getting back to me. I have the image size set to 1200X1200.

Since Google has already crawled that URL, it may take a while for its cache to refresh. If you can, try a different URL.

Also, the size of that image is 1.5M — this may be too large for Google (unlike Facebook and Twitter, they don’t publish their image preferences and limits). The same image saved as a JPG is 227K, so you may try converting it to JPG. ??

js.

I have tried a bunch of different posts and links from the site. All bring about the same result on Google+. When I paste the link, Google+ initially gives me a “could not load website, retry?” error. I hit retry and then it pulls the link but nothing else.

It’s very strange. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest all work fine.

Have you tried using a JPG image instead of a PNG?

js.

Yep, but I don’t think this is an issue with your plugin. I think my theme, Headway, has borked Google+. I have the same problems with multiple sites. Some with your plugin, some without, and all with Headway.

Thanks for engaging JS. I really appreciate it. Hopefully Headway can get this figured out.

Someone else has reported a similar issue, and they are also using a PNG image. Google may be having issues with PNG images at the moment. Try a JPG image and see if that fixes the issue.

js.

Yeah, I changed up to jpg and it’s still an issue.

Here’s my newest post and you can see it still has an issue, even though it is jpg: https://danielmrose.com/2014/10/press-on-through/

Hm. Try setting your SSO -> General -> Open Graph image dimensions to 800x800px cropped to see if that makes a difference. Google+ never had a problem with 1200px images before, but you never know — it could be a new bug in their crawler.

js.

Still doesn’t work. Interestingly though: https://danielmrose.com or https://https://danielmrose.com/journal both pull a featured image and description. It appears to be an issue on posts only.

Hey did you ever get this work work. I am having the exact same issue. Everything did work in google + when i posted a link from my site. Now nothing shows up no description no image no tittle. just the url, i have done everything , its very annoying im using yaost

Nope. Sure haven’t. For Google + I now post a picture and link. It won’t pick up a featured image regardless of my set up.

I have the same issue with Headway Themes currently. No social plugins installed FYI.