How can I set a website image that will show as preview on Facebook

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When you share a link on facebook it will automatically find images on the website and randomly picks one as a preview. How can you influence the preview image? When a person shares the website link on his facebook?

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Note also that if you have wordpress just scroll down to the bottom of the webpage when in edit mode  and select  featured image   bottom right side of screen

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If you re using Weebly  start by viewing the published site and right-clicking the image to Copy Image Address   Then in Weebly  go to Edit Site  Pages  click the page you wish to use  SEO Settings  under Header Code enter the code from Shef s answer    lt meta property  og image  content   uploads        gt    just replacing  uploads     with the copied image address  Click Publish to apply the change   You can skip the part of Shef s answer about namespace  because that s already set by default in Weebly

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1  Include the Open Graph XML namespace extension to your HTML declaration     lt html xmlns  http   www w3 org 1999 xhtml        xmlns fb  http   ogp me ns fb   gt    2  Inside your  lt head gt  lt  head gt  use the following meta tag to define the image you want to use   lt meta property  og image  content  fully qualified image url here    gt    Read more about open graph protocol here   After doing the above  use the Facebook  Object Debugger  if the image does not show up correctly   Also note the first time shared it still won t show up unless height and width are also specified  see Share on Facebook - Thumbnail not showing for the first time

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