Problem with Pinterest URL
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I have been using this plugin for years without issue. All of a sudden in the past couple of months, when I pin something from my website to Pinterest, the URL that is imported over is a direct link to the image itself (the image file), rather than the actual webpage. It has never done this before. I have not changed anything.
For example, I just tried to pin this webpage: https://www.psychedeliczen.com/colorful-pet-portrait-shadow/ using the Add to Any Pinterest button, as I always do. When the Pin is created, the link in the pin points to https://www.psychedeliczen.com/wp-content/uploads/Shadow-2020.07.16-SMALL-tagedit.jpg rather than the webpage (https://www.psychedeliczen.com/colorful-pet-portrait-shadow/)
As I have said this is a new issue that just popped up about 2 months ago. I didn’t even realize there was a problem until I checked my pins on Pinterest and realized that all the pins from my website in the past few months were like this, and I had to correct them.
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The AddToAny Pinterest button loads Pinterest’s official script, then Pinterest looks at the page’s “open graph” meta tags, which the Yoast plugin handles on your site.
With Yoast, look into how to change each page’s
og:urlvalue from an image URL back to the page URL.I looked through all of my Yoast settings and could not find one that said og:url. I looked on the general Yoast settings, the Yoast Social settings, and the settings at the bottom of each page in the editor. Searching online on Yoast’s website tells me that I cannot do this without some advanced tool that I have no access to: https://yoast.com/help/change-og-url/
Is there another way to correct this issue?
You should create a new topic in the Yoast plugin support forum to get help troubleshooting that plugin. You might try deactivating all other plugins to possibly find the root cause yourself, and you might try another plugin that handles meta tags such as the All in One SEO Pack plugin.
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