Why can't FB find this url?
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The other day we updated an old blog post, http://www.kempruge.com/flashing-headlights-no-good-deed/, and while it uploaded fine to g+ and the page is live, for some reason, FB says it can't find it. This has never happened to me before, so I don't know what to do? I tried posting other links to FB from our site, and they all worked, so I know it's not a problem with our site. Then, I tried posting the link using other FB accounts, but they did't work. So I know it's not our FB page.
I did do one thing that may have caused this problem, but not sure. After I updated this post, I scheduled it to post thinking it would do it immediately. I went to post the link on FB, before it was scheduled to publish in WP, and that's when I noticed it wasn't finding it. I went back to WP, and changed the schedule time. Once I did that, the page was live, but I can't get FB to recognize the page. It's like FB needs to clear its cache or something. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ruben
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Glad to know that works, Andy! I was considering that as a last ditch effort. Thanks!
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All working this end too.
In the past, extreme measures have had to be taken and I have re-written (well, copy and pasted) an entire post to a new post with an almost identical URL and then done a 301 to the new page. Always fixed it as a last resort
-Andy
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...I swear 20 minutes ago, and all of yesterday I couldn't get this thing to work...but it is now. Why I have no clue, but thanks!
- Ruben
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Hey Ruben,
You may want to clear your cache for your browser, then restart the browser and log back in to Facebook. This is just a thought based on my test. I threw your link in my FB page and it seems to be loading the content and you can select 1 of 2 thumbnails. Have a look at the screenshot below.
See if that helps! Hope it does
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Hi,
Sometimes FB seems to get a bit stuck on urls, I find running them through the fb url debug tool (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/) usually seems to unstick them. I plugged that url into the tool, it returns ok, does it post properly now also?
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