LinkedIn Post Inspector Not Working: What I Found and How I’m Contacting LinkedIn Ep 221

In this episode, I talk about a little-known LinkedIn tool called the LinkedIn Post Inspector, which refreshes the social share image and description LinkedIn pulls from a webpage when you share a link.

I explain that when you update a page’s thumbnail or metadata, LinkedIn often keeps showing an outdated preview unless you run the URL through this tool.

Over the weekend and again today, the Post Inspector wouldn’t work for me, and people in an Espresso+ community call confirmed the same issue across multiple countries.

I tried incognito and mobile with no success, even though Facebook showed the updated image. I attempted to report it through LinkedIn Help but only got an unhelpful chatbot, so I used my own contact-linkedin resource page and submitted a form, though I’m not optimistic LinkedIn will fix it.

https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/

LinkedIn Help Form: https://www.mellermarketing.com/contactlinkedin

00:00 What Post Inspector Does

00:49 Why It Matters for Links

01:07 Tool Suddenly Not Working

02:06 Troubleshooting Attempts

02:40 Is LinkedIn Disabling It

03:14 Help Center Chatbot Frustration

04:36 How to Contact LinkedIn

06:08 Updating My Resource Page

06:43 Submitting a Support Ticket

07:06 Follow the Money Theory

08:17 Wrap Up and Call to Action 

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My name is Brenda Meller. I'm a LinkedIn coach, consultant, speaker, and author. My company is Meller Marketing and I help business professionals get a bigger slice of the LinkedIn pie. 

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