EPISODE · Jul 28, 2026 · 9 MIN
LinkedIn Post Inspector Not Working: What I Found and How I’m Contacting LinkedIn Ep 221
from Enthusiastically Self-Employed: LinkedIn tips, Business tips, and Marketing tips for the self-employed & small business owners · host Brenda Meller
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 I explain that when you update a page’s thumbnail or metadata, LinkedIn often keeps showing an outdated preview unless you run the URL through this tool.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 Support the show ************************************** 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. Visit mellermarketing.com Let's connect on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brendameller (click MORE to invite me to connect and mention you listened to my podcast)
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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 I explain that when you update a page’s thumbnail or metadata, LinkedIn often keeps showing an outdated preview unless you run the URL through this tool.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 ...
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