Have gravatar for my blog to appear on facebook page when I link to blog?

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  tonyalisone · Member · Mar 29, 2014 at 2:46 am

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  How to get gravatar tp appear on facebook page when I link to blog? Right now the facebook page only shows the link, no graphics in the box to the left of the link.

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  thatrobyn · Member · Mar 31, 2014 at 3:22 pm

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  Hello there,

  Facebook will usually show an image in the post itself. Facebook generally looks for the Featured Image you assigned to your post first, but not always. While your Gravatar is used as an identifier on WordPress.com and other sites, it is not recognized as such by Facebook.

  Unfortunately, we have no control over the images that Facebook chooses to include. Basically, we just send them the URL, and they search tfor the excerpt and images to include.

  To check which image Facebook is pulling for a given post, you can look up each post’s URL in their debugger here:

  https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

  Try setting a feature image the next time you post, and see if Facebook recognizes it. Let me know! Thanks much.

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  tonyalisone · Member · Mar 31, 2014 at 3:59 pm

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  FB picked up the feature image perfectly. Thanks.

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  thatrobyn · Member · Mar 31, 2014 at 4:06 pm

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  Awesome! Thanks for letting me know :)