How to Turn Your Link Preview Into a Free Banner Ad

Most funnel owners are accidentally giving away valuable ad inventory.

Here’s what I mean.

When you drop your link into Twitter, Facebook, Messenger, Slack, or iMessage, those platforms do not just paste your URL. They crawl your page. They check your Open Graph meta tags.

If you did not define them, the platform guesses.

You get a raw URL.

Maybe a random image.

Maybe nothing.

No hook.

No positioning.

No belief shift.

That is wasted surface area.

Every time your link is shared, you are effectively running an ad unit. The image, headline, and description become the creative. That preview either earns attention or it gets ignored.

Treat it like an ad.

Custom image specific to that funnel.

Clear headline.

Body copy that breaks belief.

Visual that signals legitimacy.

This is controllable.

Here are the three fundamentals.

#1 is the image.

Use a 1200x630 image designed for attention. No clutter. One idea.

#2 is the title.

This becomes the bold headline in the preview. Make it intentional.

#3 is the description.

Two short lines that create curiosity or clarify the promise.

In ClickFunnels, go to your funnel. Open the first step. Click Settings.

Upload your social sharing image. Add your SEO title and description. Save.

That is what every platform will display when your link is dropped anywhere.

If you have multiple versions of your first page for different traffic sources, you can create different social images for each version. Different temperature. Different positioning.

Most people obsess over button colors.

Few treat their link preview like paid media.

If you want to see what your funnel is broadcasting right now, drop your URL into a private message and look at the preview.

Does it look like a polished ad?

Or a naked link?

Bonus points if you audit all of your funnels' Social Share links and split test them ;)

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- James

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