Sharing your content on Social Media and subscribing to Social Feeds

There are two ways by which you can share your Outgrow content on different social media platforms. One is by sharing the link of your Outgrow experience directly on a social media platform, and the other is when users share your Outgrow experience by clicking on the Share button on the result page. This document will help you understand how you can have users share your content on different social media platforms from the results page.

Enabling Social Share buttons on the Results page

1. Open the respective content in Build mode, and click on the Results page. (NOTE: Thank You Screen in the screenshot below.)

2. Toggle on the button for Share On Social Media.

3. Select the Social Media platforms on which users will be able to share your content from the Results page. Also, specify the text for Share Widget Title and Share Widget Description.

4. IMPORTANT NOTE: The social share information that will appear on Facebook will be as per the meta tags of the share URL. If it contains your content piece's direct link, then it will work as per SEO settings in the Configure section, else if it is some other link outside Outgrow, it will display data as per the meta tags of that link.

Allowing users to subscribe to your Social Feed from the Results page

You can allow users to subscribe to your Social Feeds from the Results page. Here is how you can enable this:

1. Open the respective content in Build mode, and click on the Results page. (NOTE: Thank You Screen in the screenshot below.)

2. Toggle on the button for Subscribe To Social Feeds.

3. Select the Social Feed platforms that users can subscribe to from the Results page. For each platform, you will have to specify the handle of your profile.

Image Size Guidelines

A. Facebook: Shared link images have an optimal size of 1200 x 627 pixels. Keep these guidelines close by when uploading shared link images:

Square photo has a minimum upload size of 154 x 154 pixels in the feed.
Square photo has a minimum upload size of 116 x 116 pixels on the page.
Rectangular photo has a minimum upload size of 470 x 246 in feed.
Rectangular photo has a minimum upload size of 484 x 252 on the page.

Facebook will automatically scale photos using the minimum dimensions. To avoid poor quality, increase the image resolution when scaling.

B. Twitter: The image must be a minimum size of 144 pixels wide by 144 pixels tall and must be less than 5MB in file size. The image will also be cropped into a 125×125-pixel square.

C. LinkedIn: The image preview will be scaled and cropped to fit a box of 436 pixels wide by 228 pixels tall.

Facebook not showing updated Social Share images

When you first share a link on Facebook, Facebook stores it (or caches it) in its system. Now, if you edit the image or replace it, Facebook still might show the old cached image. To tell Facebook to fetch the image again, you can just add a random suffix to the URL of the format "/?ref=a" or "/?a=2". Now, Facebook will think that this is a new URL and it will fetch the image again. And don't worry. This suffix will not affect your content piece in any way. To clear the cache you can follow the below-mentioned steps:

1. Access this link.
2. Enter the calculator URL and Click Debug.
3. Click Scrape again 2-3 times, it will fetch the latest information.

In case you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected], and we will be happy to assist you further.