Lost FaceBook Shares with URL change
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I recently changed the URL of a page and used a 301 redirect from old to new. I just realized I lost all my Facebook shares. Now it shows 0 on that page. What can I do to get back my count of shares? I cannot find any information.
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Hi Erik,
I'm not sure there's a way to get those shares back. I do know however that Twitter follows the rel=canonical on a page so you might want to try that instead as a test to see if Facebook will honor it as well.
Hope this helps a bit!
Jen
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