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Some questions about social plugins (facebook, twitter, google+)
I have some questions regarding social plugins (facebook, twitter, google+).
By asking the following questions I would like you to take into considaration the following parameters: I want my website ...
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Is it legal to reward points when users click share button?
Every website will desire its content to be shared by its users.
Is it OK for some website to award points each time its user clicks facebook share or like button?
assume that the website knows the ...
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“Likes” get lost
From time to time our website loses as lot of likes
for example two days ago the number of like was more than 1k
then all of a sudden it became 480
Also strange is that
this query
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Share on Facebook does not show thumbnail images
I have a PHP application which has a "Share on Facebook" button that,
On the development server shows the thumbnail images correctly and allows the user to select between them
On the live server, it ...
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Google Plus Vanity URL Dilema [closed]
Google Plus has just made vanity URLs available for pages, wanted your advice.
The page is pre approved (so all I need to is click accept) to get
www.google.com/+shoes
But my FB vanity URL is
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facebook ad metric vs google analytics metrics
My facebook ad metrics shows me a number of clicks in my ad. Also my google analytics is tracking the facebook ad source, but the number of clicks in my ad is almost 30% bigger than the number of ...
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Facebook Like button for Retina Display
I am using Facebook's Like button (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/) but when displayed on Retina Display iPhone, the button looks blurry as the Facebook logo is an image ...
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Why Are My Facebook 'Likes' Disappearing?
If you look at my website, it shows only one Facebook Like, but while the page is loading it sometimes shows more; and I'm sure there are at least 20.
Any ideas?
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Facebook Like button for sessions or entire conference?
I'm putting together an online conference program. The conference has hundreds of sessions.
When adding a Facebook Like button, I'm trying to decide:
Choice 1: All the Like buttons should like the ...
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Facebook Like javascript related to Time Spent Downloading a page Increase in GWT?
I installed the Facebook Like button Javascript version on my website on December 15th.
Take a look at this report from Google Webmaster Central.
Crawl stats
Googlebot activity in the last 90 ...
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facebook share and opengraph
I'm managing a video blog.
The blog contains a main youtube video on the homepage and several thumbnail images of other videos elsewhere.
I have a share button for the main page and the single posts ...
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How do I follow up on the comments made in my site using Facebook comments plugin?
I installed Facebook's social plugin - Comments.
I thought that it would encourage people to comment on my articles and by doing that I will get (at the end) more traffic.
After installing it to my ...
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Facebook social plugin comments disappear from my Drupal site after using Facebook application ID
Background to problem
I was using the Facebook comments social plugin without a Facebook application ID (on Drupal with Facebook social plugin module); it was working just fine like this.
I later ...
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Facebook application: insights not updated [closed]
For publishing your facebook app offcially, you need 10 monthly users or 5 total users (check out the paradox :s), but the thing is, while quite a lot of people have visited my app, and about 30 liked ...
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Facebook Like Button on Individual Pages
There have been a few questions like this asked before but not in the same way. I want to put a Facebook Like or Share or Recommend button on all of my website pages. The site is somewhat like Yelp ...
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How to get a facebook page with URL like facebook.com/mycompany
I've seen other facebook 'company/brand/product' pages with URLs of the format: facebook.com/mycompany
How do you set this up?
If I use pages/create, I get an address like: ...
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Can someone explain how FaceBook's cookie tracks you while logged out?
This article claims that Facebook tracks what you do, even when you're logged off of Facebook, via cookies.
Now, a cookie is just a text file... that is read/written to while you're actually on that ...
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Facebook Comments and page SEO
Facebook's recently launched commenting system for blogs loads comments in an iframe, instead of loading them inline. Since blog comments can often contribute significantly to the page's SEO, is it a ...
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How to show a preview thumbnail on Facebook of a imageless website?
I have recently designed a website with no img tags, only one big fat CSS sprite with everything in it. Though, when I try to publish that website on Facebook, it won't show a preview thumbnail — ...
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Facebook company pages, why some are simple urls and some are strange long urls?
I'm trying to set up this damn FB page for the company where I'm working for.
I think it's probably useless stuff, but I want to give a try.
I came up with this page:
...
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Is there a way to use @media queries with pages embedded into Facebook?
Would a @media query recognize the 520px Facebook iframe limitation?
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How do I add a custom welcome tab to a Facebook fan page?
this is my first question on here so I do apologise in advance if I do something wrong. I'm a web designer, not a programmer (just for the record)!
I have to add a custom welcome tab to a Facebook ...
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Should a facebook 'like' button on a website use the actual website url as the 'liked' item, or the url of the website's facebook fan page?
E.g. should the like button use www.somewebsite.com or facebook.com/somewebsite as the 'liked' item?
Just to clarify, I realise that individual pages would do better with their own like buttons, ...
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Why should/shouldn't I put social media icons on my website?
Why should/shouldn't I put social media icons on my website?
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How can I resolve HTML validation errors when using Facebook Comments?
I am trying to validate my document that has the following facebook comments tag
<fb:comments width="425"></fb:comments>
I am getting validation error:
Line 333, Column 45: Element ...
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Selling Facebook Likes - are these quality Likes?
People/companies selling Facebook Likes guarantee 100-1000 likes for your Facebook page. Some say "real looking likes", "permanent likes", "verified", etc.
I figured I'd try one of these guys out, ...
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What is the feature that imports URL information into facebook and google+?
What I am trying to do.
I want to be able to import heading, short description and an image into my website, just using a link.
I am using Joomla but can switch to any CMS, or try to build an ...
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Any particular reason why FaceBook's Subscribe Button isn't showing?
I got this FaceBook profile for my upcoming website and I can't get the Subscribe button to show, NOT EVEN ON FaceBook's page!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003492130845
Now, if you go ...
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Facebook open graph protocol: how can I reach the scattered audience of people who liked individual pages on my website?
If you add Open Graph Protocol metadata to your website that is different for every URL (so the url in
<meta property="og:url" content="http://yourwebsite.com/somepage.html">
is the url of ...
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Facebook likes Influence SEO ranking
I have seen some data that shows strong correlation between number of Facebook shares and Google ranking position. It makes sense. But I am wondering how does Google know number of Facebook shares. ...
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How auto load image work when an status is post to social website?
When posting a status update on social website like facebook.com and linkedin.com which contain an URL, it will automatically scan the images available on the particular website and put it at the ...
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Facebook Share Button and Counter no longer displaying any Count
Is it just me or did the Facebook Share button that displays the count of shares and likes just stop working over the past few days? The sharing still works, the count of shares no longer displays.
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Facebook Comments Lost
I am using Facebook comments on couple of my blogs at the moment and I just found that somehow magically all the previous comments made on posts are gone and are no longer being displayed.
I'm using ...
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How do I resolve “No administrators were specified” error with the Facebook Like button?
I've placed the Facebook Like button iframe code on my website. When I test it, I receive an error:
"name" likes this. · Error. Clicking on Error gives:
You failed to provide a valid list of
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DIY Social media buttons Vs. Ready built (e.g. AddThis)
Is there any benefit from rolling-your-own set of social media 'like' buttons rather than using a pre-packaged widget, such as that provided by AddThis? Are there any downsides from using out of the ...
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How to get metrics for use of Facebook social plugins?
I have a site with hundreds of content pages. Each content page has a Facebook like button on it. Aside from browsing to each page and reading the number next to each Like button, how can I get ...
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How can an exception be created for Facebook on robots.txt?
I have a directory that I don't want Google to index because it could confuse people who don't know the site. However, I want everyone else to get updates when I post them on our Facebook page. The ...
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Transferring website likes to fanpage likes
as far as I understood Facebook also offers "likes" for plain websites without their own fanpage.
Now, if one has a certain number of such likes and decides to open a dedicated fanpage is there a way ...
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custom facebook connect image - Is it facebook's policy violation?
I was going to change facebook's default login button with my custom image like mashable
I mean like this
But I found a article which state its against facebook's policies
Is it really a ...
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Problem with displaying images on Facebook from my wordpress
When posting link to my wordpress geekgirlscarrots.pl on Facebook, thumbnail images don't display at all.
I've put at header the following code:
<meta name="title" content="Geek Girls Carrots" ...
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Most of my Facebook Likes have disappeared from my website
Until two days ago, I had 417 Facebook Likes on my website http://www.ridiculouslife.net/
Now i have just 33.
Even when I input my url into the Facebook developers Get the Like Button generator it ...
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Facebook applications - how to get to know page ID?
With Facebook API, within a custom app added to a fanpage, how do I recognize the fanpage ID?
Here's what I'm trying to achieve:
user goes to the full-width canvas app, he authorizes himself there ...
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Only one image available when sharing links on Facebook
When I try to share links from this URL on Facebook, I can only choose one image as the preview:
But when I try to share links from this URL, I can choose between five thumbnail previews:
Any ...
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Why am I getting hits to pages with ?fb_xd_fragment=
I have added a Facebook like box and like buttons on my blog and, recently, I've been seeing on analytics a lot of hits to pages ending with ?fb_xd_fragment=.
I've found a related thread on the ...
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Display comments from a Facebook page link on my site's post page
I am not sure if this is doable, but whenever I post a bit of news on my site, I will post a link on my Facebook fan page. Lately, I've noticed the whole discussion is happening on Facebook, with ...
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Tracking Facebook “Likes”
Beyond the count posted next to the button, is there anyway to see a list of users have completed a successful “like” action, but not as the owner of the "like" button/website; or for that matter any ...
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Ensure we're found in Facebook search for both full & abbreviated company names?
We have a client with a facebook page, let's say his company is called Bob Roberts Super Widgets. And if you search in Facebook for Bob Roberts Super Widgets then up he pops.
But the shorthand he's ...
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Adding an RSS feed to a Facebook page
I want to add a client's blog feed to a Facebook page. Is there a way to do that without using a third party app?
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Multiple calls for mutiple Facebook, twitter buttons
If a page has multiple facebook/twitter buttons for multiple stories (24 buttons for 24 stories), its creating 24 files for fb likes and 24 folders for twitter where count is saved. This is making the ...
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Facebook addthis won't show all my thumbnails? [closed]
Hello I've implemented the addthis toolbar on my site and I've noticed it doesn't behave as intended.
There are two issues:
when I first try to share to facebook for example 8 thumbnails, all the ...
