it’s the automated feature that doesn’t show the thumbnails. I’ve tried on different web browsers on my site and I don’t see images from the posts that are submitted automatically. Any other ideas?
When you share a post on Google+, or when Jetpack Publicize publishes a post to your profile there, Google+ crawls the page and looks for several things to build a complete post preview (with an image, title, description, …):
- First, Google looks for schema.org markup.
- If your theme doesn’t include such tags, Google starts looking for Open Graph Meta Tags.
- If you don’t use OG Meta Tags, Google falls back to the
title and description tags in your site’s head.
Looking at your site, I see Open Graph Meta Tags so Google+ should be able to grab the information it needs.
However, it seems that Google+ isn’t able to grab these tags when it first crawls your site immediately after you publish a post. That could be because your first page loading time is too slow, and Google doesn’t manage to get any info from your site since it’s the first to access a post after you published it.
It might be worth installing a caching plugin and see if it helps.
Let me know how it goes.
Also, I’ve noticed the counts on social buttons have been loading slowly past couple of days. Is that a known issue?
The counts are queried from each Social Network manually, so if things are slow it means that your connection to Twitter / Facebook / LinkedIn is slow. I’m afraid there isn’t much I can do to help here.
