diff --git a/History.markdown b/History.markdown
index fe18398..edfe7d8 100644
--- a/History.markdown
+++ b/History.markdown
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ## HEAD
 
 * Use canonical_url specified in page if present #211
+* Fix for image.path causing an invalid url error #228
 
 ## 2.2.3 
 
diff --git a/lib/jekyll-seo-tag/drop.rb b/lib/jekyll-seo-tag/drop.rb
index 632c2d4..1973c65 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll-seo-tag/drop.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll-seo-tag/drop.rb
@@ -168,7 +168,8 @@ module Jekyll
         image["path"] ||= image["facebook"] || image["twitter"]
         return @image = nil unless image["path"]
 
-        unless absolute_url? image["path"]
+        # absolute_url? will return nil for an invalid URL
+        if absolute_url?(image["path"]) == false
           image["path"] = filters.absolute_url image["path"]
         end
 
diff --git a/spec/jekyll_seo_tag/drop_spec.rb b/spec/jekyll_seo_tag/drop_spec.rb
index a47ad67..80fb871 100644
--- a/spec/jekyll_seo_tag/drop_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/jekyll_seo_tag/drop_spec.rb
@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ RSpec.describe Jekyll::SeoTag::Drop do
         let(:image) { ":" }
 
         it "returns nil" do
-          expect(subject.image["path"]).to eql("/:")
+          expect(subject.image["path"]).to eql(":")
         end
       end