Our site deals with affiliate marketing, so we need to ensure that the affiliate that shares a page from our website gets credit for any retail sales that are made from that person sharing the site on his/her facebook page. We have the link working perfectly, so that is not the problem. The problem we are having is when someone clicks the like button on a page and adds comments the title of the page is correctly linked, but there's also a link underneath the title that is linked to the site root without the affiliates info attached. From looking at several posts on my own facebook page I've noticed that a few sites have their site "greyed out" or unlinked. I checked the source of these pages and was not able to find a clear solution to how they were able to accomplish this. I even went as far as contacting one of the sites and they said that they were unable to give that type of information out.
Does anyone know how to accomplish this?
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We just started an advertisement with Facebook and are curious if there is a way to track who has visited our website by clicking our website link on our Facebook page? I am very pleased with all of the ways to track the performance of our ad on Facebook and want to see if people are not only 'liking' our page, but visiting our website to learn more about us. Any information would be helpful :)
This is our website if you need to look into it further:
http://drkennethlevine.webs.com/
I don't know how much you can change about your website or how it is built. However there is a way to track where the users who visited your page from. Use the http reffer field.
In php (and probably in most other languages) you can get the refer link by using
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
The refer field contains the last page visited by the user.
Simply count the number of users that are surfing from your facebook page to your website.
You can use $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; as mentioned by #fake, or simply use Google Analytics, which will provide you a lot of statistics for free, including referers, stats by browsers, countries...
All you have to do is create a GA account, and link your website to your account (you'll have a few javascript lines to add in your footer for it)
I am working with our web developer to integrate Facebook Likes (with comments) onto our website. However, he is having problems because FB doesn't work very well with sites where a log in is required. Currently when you click on the 'like' button the 'like' turns into 'confirm'. You then have to click on 'confirm' and another box appears showing how the like will appear on your FB page saying 'Click Like to post this to your profile' with the option of 'like' or cancel. If you click on 'like' then it allows the comment box to pop up then you can add a comment and post to FB.
There are currently too many clicks for this to work. Does anyone have any advice? Would it be better to just use straight likes with the number perhaps or is this a common problem with website that require a login. We just want users to be able to click once, add their comment and post it to FB.
Any help would be really apprecaited. If it is technical that is fine as I will pass replies onto my developer.
Many thanks
This will generally happen for URLs and sites that are new to the Facebook scraper. It is a security measure to prevent like-jacking that some sites have done in the past. You should ensure that you test your site fully with the Debug tool and after some confirmed 'likes', that step will be automatically removed and future users will just have to click like once.
Where you are gating content behind a login, I would additionally recommend that you show different HTML (including OG tags) for anything detected with the Facebook scraper User Agent (see When does Facebook scrape my page? on the Like Button FAQ) so that, for example, the OG tags for a product detail page are picked up correctly even though the scraper is technically not logged in.
I have read many q&a's and forum posts across the net including Facebook Developer forum. I have setup open graph and FB code on my tag, tag, tags and installed the Facebook SDK after the tag.
Yet, I continually have to confirm Likes and then, many times, the like does not record. Further the pictures that appear in the Confirm window seem to come from a Facebook image vault when I have set the og:image to the be a screenshot of my site.
I have read about like-jacking, etc.
What is the trick to getting the Like button to work on a website?
Maybe they are detecting your site as likejacking, you can debug the url with the Facebook URL Debugger and it will delete the cached tags from your site
Good luck
I've got a Drupal website with articles on them which have Facebook like buttons.
Now I've got all the OpenGraph metatags added on the pages and it's all working perfectly except for one thing.
Site visitors can share a page URL or like a page URL.
When a new article is added and the first person who presses the like button will not see the image added in the og:image tag.
If another person afterwards presses the like button, the og:image however is visible so it seems to me Facebook needs to scrape the page first before the og:image is added in the 'Facebook Like window'.
The Facebook share doesn't seem to suffer from this problem and does it right from the first time.
Now whenever somebody adds a new article, I'd need the URL of the article to be scraped automatically by Facebook using some PHP code or some other fix...
Anyone who knows if autoscraping a URL is possible or does anyone have an idea for a workaround?
You can use the graph API with scrape=true to force Facebook to scrape you right when you create your contents
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/beta/opengraph/objects/
Ever since adding the code for facebook like buttons and the meta tags, my website now has a problem when being shared on facebook. If you put the link "http://podawful.com" into facebook it comes up with the title being "Derp" instead of "Pod Awful".
I have no idea why. "derp" is nowhere in my code. This sounds so stupid, but its true. Any help?
website for reference:
http://podawful.com
In general, check the debug tool at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug which will show what information Facebook has detected on your page as well as updating Facebook's cache of that information
I don't see the 'Derp' title when I try to share on Facebook, for example: