Link previews are a crucial feature when scheduling posts to social media channels with Vista Social. As soon as you create your message, we automatically extract the link from your post and retrieve its details—image, page title, and description. This allows you to preview your post before it is published, helping you avoid any potential posting issues!
Here’s how it works:
- You'll be able to design your post with a link: Include the desired link in your message.
- We generate the link preview: Vista Social will fetch and display the link's image, title, and description.
- You can preview the post: Review the complete post, including the link preview, to ensure everything looks perfect before publishing.
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Note: When you're publishing from third-party tools like Vista Social, Facebook doesn't create link previews for Facebook.com links, including links to Page posts. Keep this in mind while crafting your fabulous content! |
The the not so great news: Rare link preview generation issues
In rare situations, some websites won't allow themselves to be inspected and therefore, we may not be able to generate a link preview. When this occurs, you will see the following message:
The good news: Issues are extremely rare
Out of thousands of link preview that we generate daily we may have once in a blue moon report from a user that there is a website that does not work. Why does it not work? Some site owners just don't like their content to be shared. Don't ask us why! Seems super counter intuitive.
The even better news: You can still publish your post
Yes, you read that right! So even though we have not been able to generate a link preview, you can still publish your post and for as long as you are sure that the link you are using is valid the post will turn out fine. 🥳
Conclusion
- Link previews help with previewing the post before it goes out
- Ultimately, you can still publish the post even if the link preview have not been generated
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