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: Does an OG image must be present on a page for display in Facebook page? When sharing a link, a post or a tweet on a Facebook is it possible to set an image using OG meta tags that is

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When sharing a link, a post or a tweet on a Facebook is it possible to set an image using OG meta tags that is not actually on the page you are sharing.

Example: You share example.com/mypage.html and has a img OG of /example.png

Does example.png actually have to be used on mypage.html to be displayed (as a thumbnail for example) on Facebook? Must mypage.html contain an <img> tag with a reference to this page? Is this mandatory?

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@Jamie184

Must mypage.html contain an tag with a reference to this page?


No, the image does not need to be visible on the page you are linking to. The OG image represents/summarises the resource, it does not need to be part of its contents.

In this related question the OP is advertantly linking to a (default) blank image on their WordPress blog (which doesn't appear on the page being linked to). Facebook is picking up the blank image.

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