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I had a company blog site http://blog.mysite.com, which was getting good traffic. On an average each blog had 200 fb shares(some had 2000+). And my alexa rank was 11000 in my country that time.

Then I added SSL on my blog site, also added redirect condition on my .htaccess file to redirect all request to https://blog.mysite.com, But since facebook treats both http and https version of any url different. I had lost all my count. Still my new blogs are geeting significant traffic and share. Also my sites alexa rank became to 20,000.

But I dont want to start with share count zero for my older blogs. Is there any way to so that i can tell facebook that these urls are same and show previous share count for https version also. and if someone share n https increase in the share count, dont start from zero.

My website is on wordpress.And somewhere I have heard that to change "og:url" meta tag to http but i dont know how to change that for each wordpress blog. Any help would be appericiated.

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**You need to create a 301 permanent redirect from http to your https in your .htaccess file. (This method will update most social sites IE Google +1)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !^on$
RewriteRule (.*) https://yourdomain/$1 [R,L]

EDIT: This method will regain FB likes and shares. You can refresh it with FB debugger

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  • if you are aware www.mysite.com and blog.mysite.com both are 2 different subdomain of a domain mysite.com. www.mysite.com is runnning fine and is a seprate product. blog.mysite.com is a wordpress blog site where I have sharing problem. and it can't be www.blog.mysite.com.
    – Abdul Khalid
    Sep 9, 2016 at 16:57
  • Then resort to my first part. 301 redirect from http to https.
    – norcal johnny
    Sep 9, 2016 at 16:59
  • i have done that, that is what causing problem of loss in sharing count. since urls of each blog is changed from blo.mysite.com/some-blog-page to blo.mysite.com/some-blog-page and facebook treats both f them differently.
    – Abdul Khalid
    Sep 9, 2016 at 17:01
  • You said you added SSL. You have no mention of creating a 301 redirect. Big difference. A 301 redirect is the solution and it will take some time to propagate through systems, such as FB. You will gain your rank/credit back.
    – norcal johnny
    Sep 9, 2016 at 17:08
  • @AbdulKhalid see edit.
    – norcal johnny
    Sep 9, 2016 at 17:19

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