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currenthandle
currenthandle

Reputation: 1306

How do I claim a URL for Facebook Instant Articles

When I try to claim my URL I get this error:

The fb:pages tag on the url doesn't contain this page's id. The url has fb:pages tag but they don't have this page's id. Please work with your developers / webmaster to add this tag to your website.

Am I supposed to place this meta tag: <meta property="fb:pages" content="130810137587****" /> in the head of my web page's HTML before I can calm my URL? Or in the head of my Instant Article's HTML ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7044

Answers (6)

Arslan Ahmad khan
Arslan Ahmad khan

Reputation: 5814

I have the same error.
you need to add the meta tag inside Head tag.
of your website.

Upvotes: -1

Thyago Falconi
Thyago Falconi

Reputation: 91

Facebook is trying to read the metadata from your canonical URL, you can check which URL it's using on their debugging tool:

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/

Paste your URL and check the Canonical URL info and its headers, that's the domain you need to update with the meta tag .

In my case, it was pointing to a different URL in my test environment.

Hope this helps

Upvotes: 0

manuelpira
manuelpira

Reputation: 13

You probably also need to update the open graph 'type' property: 

<meta property="og:type" content="website" />

As is said here: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/community/question/?id=10156960334050657

Upvotes: 0

nashCode
nashCode

Reputation: 73

You must put the tag between the tags of your website in the index

<Head>
     <Meta property = "fb: pages" content = "130810137587 ****" />
</ Head>

Upvotes: 0

Philippe RUAUDEL
Philippe RUAUDEL

Reputation: 116

If you're using Wordpress add your meta tag in the header.php file in the <HEAD>...</HEAD> section

Upvotes: 0

Riley Gelwicks
Riley Gelwicks

Reputation: 31

You place that meta tag in the html for the url/subdomain/path you are trying to claim. Not in the instant articles.

Upvotes: 3

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