Facebook and My Website
Over the past several months, I’ve been trying to figure out why the image is not displayed when I post a link on Facebook. Usually, I just get a question mark and a gray box. I called Bluehost, and they said it was my SEO’s fault. So, I turned the SEO off. No improvement. Bluehost then suggested I clear my cache. I did. No improvement. So I called Elegant Themes by Divi. They’ve been working on figuring it out. Now they say that Bluehost has a strong cache. I contacted them again. Not the problem.
Another Problem
As part of all this fun, I also looked into the website and saw that the service I paid to back up all my sites hasn’t operated for six months. I tried to save it onto my computer, but one website is so huge that it couldn’t be done. I checked it. Apparently, every website I’ve had in the past two decades is stored there. What?? I deleted them, and Rambling Ruminations is still functional!
Progress
So, have I made any progress? Well, I put all my websites into the one and will phase out the others. I also started using Yoast SEO. After all, the SEO made no difference to Facebook. I put the social media image into every page of the website. It shows on Linkedin, so the problem clearly lies with Facebook. I contacted them. No answer. Oh, well. Facebook isn’t very useful for marketing anyway.
Maybe I’ll just get back to writing books.