Great + Facebook Sharing Issue

I have to say that this is the best plugin for SEO. From the ease of use to the well made video tutorials. You really have to stop and appreciate the authors.

One thing I noticed that didn’t work 100% for me was the Facebook open graph part. I was trying to figure out for weeks why even if I place the Facebook Title and description and thumbnail I wanted to show when my posts are shared, it was not showing the updated info right away. I was thinking Yoast would automatically update it instantly but it didnt.

I had to resolve this using two ways:

1. Using the facebook Sharing Debugger tool: Now here is the thing I didn’t know about this at first. Yoast says to use this tool and I always use to debug my post links thinking that would update the title, description and thumbnail, but the trick was to hit that button called “scrape” or something similar. Can’t remember. Sometimes I had to hit it twice but that is what really updates the proper sharing info instantly!

2. I also got an extra plugin that updates the facebook open graph to fix the sharing but this plugin actually does the scraping too automatically when posts are updated which is what really works.

Im sorry if I missed the instructions in Yoast tutorials but I don’t remember if anything about the “Scraping” feature was mentioned.

Anyways, to the authors, please continue to support this great SEO plugin and for anyone else who may have had this Facebook sharing issue, that was what worked to fix it for me.