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Reputation: 1220

Facebook Like counts the same for multiple Wordpress posts

I have a website that runs on wordpress...

It uses the Facebook Wordpress plugin to generate like buttons and counts at the bottom of every post.

The problem is many posts have the same like count - a quick look at the home page shows multiple posts with the same count of 2780 - a number that isn't at all possible after being online only a day. Some other posts have correct counts (less than 10), but cannot work out why this very high count is attached to multiple posts.

Any ideas appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 674

Answers (1)

cpilko
cpilko

Reputation: 11852

Take a look at some of your site's pages in the Facebook Debugger, and look to see if multiple pages return the same "canonical url".

If they do, Facebook considers these to be the same page, and will aggregate their likes and other data. Check the source of these pages to make sure that there is only one unique og:url tag and if there is a <link rel="canonical"> tag, it points to that content's unique permalink, not your homepage.

Lots of WordPress plugins add open graph meta tags these days, including some you wouldn't expect.

Upvotes: 1

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