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WP-Affiliate – Images not showing on social media

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Tips and Tricks HQ Support Portal › Forums › WP Affiliate Platform › WP Affiliate Troubleshooting › WP-Affiliate – Images not showing on social media

Tagged: affiliate plugin, affiliates, facebook, social media, WP Affiliate

  • This topic has 11 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 8 years, 8 months ago by admin.
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  • July 22, 2014 at 9:35 am #11221
    whaley
    Member

    I am using wp-affiliate and for some reason when I create a banner or creative with a linked image I cannot transfer that image to facebook (I am using social media as my marketing platform)

    How do I attach a linked image so that people who sign up can put the images onto social media?

    This is the creative codes/image

    [http://screencast.com/t/l5g4JJtJ]

    [http://screencast.com/t/J5ijTRWr]

    Even when I put the affiliate link onto a post in FB it just shows the link and no website image etc.

    ]http://screencast.com/t/cTd68t0hiR]

    Please could you tell me how to get around this as I have affiliates waiting to sign up.

    Thank you

    July 22, 2014 at 7:51 pm #64525
    wzp
    Moderator

    It seems to be a Facebook issue:

    https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=10200708365214182

    July 23, 2014 at 9:32 am #64526
    whaley
    Member

    Hi.

    Thanks wzp.

    The problem I am having is that the affiliates cannot pick up the code for the image, wp-affiliate is only showing the html code. Please see example [http://screencast.com/t/J5ijTRWr]

    Where is the image link without the html so that I can put it onto social media?

    Thank you

    July 23, 2014 at 3:07 pm #64527
    wzp
    Moderator

    Where is the image link without the html so that I can put it onto social media?

    Thank you

    In the screenshot you provided, the image “link” would be whatever is in the src=”……” part of the code.

    July 23, 2014 at 6:58 pm #64528
    whaley
    Member

    Hi WZP,

    I am sorry but I don’t understand.

    Please can you explain how I get an image to link to an affiliate ID and then post that link onto facebook so that the image shows up on facebook and not the link url.

    Facebook does not allow the html coding.

    Thank you

    July 23, 2014 at 10:12 pm #64529
    wzp
    Moderator

    Please see my first answer; Facebook does not permit it. What you provided in the screenshot is a perfectly valid HTML link. Unfortunately, Facebook does not permit it. You can only post the URL text link. So, using the example screenshot; you are allowed to post [https://www.chaffree.com/?ap_id=WXYZ] and it will appear as just “the URL link,” but there is no way Facebook will permit ***ANYONE*** to post a working image link.

    What you can do, is seperately upload the image to your wall, and include the text caption, “click on this link for more information,” followed by the text link.

    July 24, 2014 at 7:34 am #64530
    whaley
    Member

    Thank you for your answer. I will test it out just using the affiliate login link.

    April 5, 2016 at 6:16 am #64531
    admin
    Keymaster

    The following addon could be a useful for this:

    https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate/easy-affiliate-ad-sharing-on-social-media

    July 16, 2016 at 10:55 am #64532
    Millions
    Member

    Before I buy the ‘easy affiliate ad sharing’ addon – Can you please confirm that by using this addon, the share links will enable the banner IMAGE to appear in a facebook post. And when the image is clicked, it’s recorded as an affiliate referral.

    July 17, 2016 at 3:15 am #64533
    admin
    Keymaster

    Facebook automatically picks an image from your landing page (the target page). So it won’t be the banner you specify. It will be one picked by Facebook from that page. Nothing we can do there unfortunately.

    The affiliate referral will work fine when users click on the posted ad.

    September 5, 2016 at 3:45 pm #64534
    Millions
    Member

    Message to Admin – There is a fairly easy way of forcing Facebook to pick a banner image. Please e-mail me if you wish to discuss the solution for you to self-test.

    September 5, 2016 at 11:11 pm #64535
    admin
    Keymaster

    I have replied to your email.

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