Hi, remery!
It looks as if LinkedIn is caching an incorrect version of the page. If I share the URL to your post directly in LinkedIn, it shows a preview of google.com just as you say: http://d.pr/i/1bnLD
If I refresh the page and try to share this link it works fine:
https://icrunchdatanews.com/compete-data-driven-companies/?test=1
(That’s the same article URL, just with a query string to make the URL unique and force LinkedIn to fetch a fresh copy of the page.)
Screenshot: http://d.pr/i/17gT6
I reviewed your posts while I was looking at the site, and can’t see anything that could cause the LinkedIn bot to reference google.com instead of your own page. It looks as though the bug may be with LinkedIn’s crawler bot. I would expect the issue to disappear as soon as LinkedIn’s cache of the page is cleared. (From other reports online, it appears that they can store cached pages for up to seven days; apologies if you have to wait that long for this to resolve itself!)
Thanks Nick, for looking that over. I’ll research a bit more on my side too, and observe it over the coming week or so. Also, I’ll watch new posts to see if that refreshes the cache.
Thanks again, you’re awesome.
You’re welcome, remery!
One thing you could try is to edit the slug of that post to something like compete-data-driven-companies-insights and see if LinkedIn then fetches the correct copy of the page when you next share it. That might save you from having to wait for their cache to clear.
(Note that it may reset your share count for the post, though, so leaving the URL alone and waiting for the cache to clear may be preferable!)
