ericjager2012

Ah, well thank you! It’s good to know that everything seems to configured correctly on my end. I’ll just wait some more for Google to fix what isn’t working.

Thanks again!

Hi there, thank you for getting back to me so soon! Really appreciate it.

Perhaps I gave you the wrong idea… My bad. I do see my site title in the search results, as you correctly point out. What I meant was that the name of my website (website name?) isn’t showing in the results. It simply says “eawheel.com” instead of “EA Wheel”.

So I apologize for using the incorrect terms.

Just to give you a heads-up: LinkedIn DOES have a tool to clear the OG Meta Tags cache.

It’s called the LinkedIn Post Inspector (https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/).

I entered the url of the page that was giving me trouble and after ‘inspection’, it now posts the correct content to LinkedIn.

So, problem solved and a free tip for users of the otherwise excellent plugin you’ve provided!

Thank you for your reply! I think I get it now. Nevertheless, I am in the situation that it feels off to post that particular page to LinkedIn, knowing that the content doesn’t match the content on the actual page. The whole idea is to get people to read what’s on the actual page, not present them with another text that they won’t find on the page itself…

Isn’t there any other way to somehow ‘clear’ the ‘cached’ content? I mean, is the only option for me to post content to LinkedIn and then wait and hope that it will update on its own?

Thanks!

Thank you for your message.

I don’t think that what you described is the issue here. To support my theory, when I create a new page, like this instant, add “test123” as text to the page, and share the page using the LinkedIn button, I see the “test123” in the proposed LinkedIn post window. When I view the source of the page, I see the “test123” in the OG meta data.

I then cancel the post and change the text on my page to “test456” and again use the LinkedIn post button. The same “test123” is shown in the post preview window. Viewing the OG tags of the page shows the adjusted meta data.

In this particular scenario, there hasn’t been a single moment during which LinkedIn could have crawled my page.

In other words, I believe that the original text (test123) is somehow stored somewhere (in a database perhaps?) and that it is not the meta tags that get pulled (given the fact that they have clearly changed after changing the text test123 to test456), but that the information comes from someplace else.

Any other ideas?