What is Domain Verification?

In an effort to combat fake news being shared on their site, Facebook made changes to the policy around editing link attachments. With these changes, only the verified website owner can make changes to the thumbnail image, article title, and link description when sharing the link to their own Facebook page.

How to verify your domain name on Facebook?

Before starting your domain verification make sure that you have access to modify the DNS record or upload files to your website root folder (at Hexact we recommend to verify by DNS record).

Go to ‘Business Settings’ in your Business Manager click ‘Domains’ then the ‘Add new” button Enter the domain name you want to verify, it is recommended to use the top-level domain to verify all sub-domains (enter “mydomain.com’ to include ‘www.mydomain.com’, ‘shop.mydomain.com’ …) To verify the domain name, you’ll either have to upload an HTML file to your webserver or add a TXT record to your DNS configuration (might take a few minutes to be recognized) Finally, assign pages from your Business Manager account that should be associated with the domain name. Only these pages will be able to modify link preview images and text.

Note that it takes some time, sometimes a few days, for Facebook to show the updated data when clicking the ‘information icon’ of the facebook post.

For more information about Facebook domain verification and step by step guide on how to add the domain name to the business manager and verify, click the following link: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/domain-verification/