When I click on a link on my homepage it takes me to that landing page within the website but in Omnibug it doesn't show me what the tag is for the link so that I can then run a report in Adobe Analytics to see how many hits that link has for the last 90 days. When I hold down the Command key on my Macbook Pro it brings the landing page up in another tab but the Omnibug tracking on the home page does not change to show what the tag is for that link. Any suggestions?
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Our company has a page on the website for a new podcast. Each episode has a unique URL. In the podcast, however, the host simplifies directing people to the relevant page by simply giving our website URL and /X (where X is the episode number).
What we've done is set up a redirect for each episode to the actual show page URL.
For instance: https://www.eliteinc.com/show/episode-1-the-power-of-day-one/
If you go to www.eliteinc.com/1 you will be taken to the correct episode page.
Here's the problem in Facebook.
When I place the www.eliteinc.com/1 link in Facebook, the preview generates just fine and if you click on the link in the post text it works.
However, if I click on the link preview that is generated, it takes me to an error 404 page:
https://www.eliteinc.com/1?fbclid=IwAR1rL41HqlLGG82vJ9bpUCV1KOKG_f3XXhEvnxk5j4vN6U0z5gJhxuOThRI
The link does open correctly on mobile.
Since around June 19th the pages I 'Like' in my site (which generate all the metadata automatically) are no longer creating the respective Facebook Page where one could 'Build Traffic' to the page, monitor likes, comments, etc. The previous pages do have the reference, but pages created and liked from then on are not!
Also, the pages are not showing on the Pages I Like section of www.facebook.com/pages . If I go there and change to the pages I have liked I see only the pages up until that day, and newer pages on other sites, but no longer the pages I liked on my own site! The weird thing is that if I navigate to the page itself, I can see myself as a 'liker' of the page.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a page inside my Web Page : http://rafaelpolit.com/inicio/index.php?sid=14&gim=240&ln=2
2. Like the Web Page
3. Go to your www.facebook.com/pages and navigate to Pages I like
4. The page does not show there.
Try accessing it via this link:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/OGTitle/OGObjectID
Now that Facebook has depreciated the landing pages for apps, how do I get my app to point to the Fan page for it's landing page?
I've checked under the Advanced tab and contacts -- but there's no place I can see to list my Fan page as being linked to my application.
According to this blog post from December, new apps can create a new Fan page, but there's no information on how to do it for existing pages -- they just say that "it will be linked automatically." Unfortunately it was not -- when you post something from our app onto your wall, the link takes you to our website rather than our Fan page.
I'd love for that link to take you to our fanpage again, but I seemingly can't find any documentation on this.
It is possible. I had the same problem. What you need to do is the following:
Categorize your existing page under "App Page" (found under "Brands & Products").
Change your page name to mach your App name.
Go to your App and select "App Details"
Under "Contact Info" you will find "App Page". There you will be able to create a new page or if all went well, select your page from a list.
I found the info in the little question-mark next to "App page".
It is possible to add the application to any page you administer. This can be achieved from solutions mentioned below:
Solution 1
http://facebook.com/add.php?api_key=[YOUR_APP_KEY]&pages=1&page=[YOUR_PAGE_ID]
YOUR_APP_KEY You can get it from application settings, its App Id
YOUR_PAGE_ID You can get it through Graph Explorer https://graph.facebook.com/[PAGE_NAME]
Solution 2
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=[YOUR_APP_KEY]&next=[REDIRECT_URL]
YOUR_APP_KEY You can get it from application settings, its App Id
REDIRECT_URL Any URL you want to redirect back to after adding the tab
Official Solution
Answer from #Dvir Levy is the official solution from Facebook. The issue with that approach is that we mostly can not follow that solution. Suppose we had to add an application tab to a brand page like 'ABCXYZ', if we follow that answer then we had to change the brand page name, and we can't do it, brands/clients we work for doesn't allow these changes.
Due the recent changes on the Facebook UI, some options have changed or are under a different place.
I would like to share the up to date way to achieve this.
On your page
Access the About section
Click on Edit Page Info on the top right side.
Set one of your categories to App page
PS: May be needed your page and app share the same name, but can't confirm this.
On your app
Access your app from the Facebook Developers apps panel.
Access Settings on the left side menu.
Set the category to Apps for pages and hit Save. [#JohnMc mentioned this has to be the only category selected.]
Open the Advanced section and find the App Page block.
Under Existing page select your page and hit Save.
All set!
Note: If you remove the link between the page and the app you won't be able to link them again.
Edit: As #John Mc pointed out in the comments, App page has to be the only category selected.
Happned to me. You need to add yourself (your developer account) as manager/admin of the page. Then it will recognize the link between you and the page and the app will show the app page so you'll be able to choose it.
This is possible.
Go to you business page, add yourself as a managed (make sure you have liked the site first)
Then refresh the App Details developers page.
Select the business app page from the App page contact section.
Note the Business page has to be the Brands & Products : App Page, and the same name as the App.
Here's how to add a tab to a page.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/add_to_page/
I use the direct URL Method. Go to your page and then type the following into the address bar of your browser.
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&display=popup&next=YOUR_URL
Where YOUR_APP_ID is the app id shown in the app configuration page, and YOUR_URL is the page you want to to be redirected to once you close the dialog.
In the Facebook app config settings will be Site URL. This is the place where it's currently going, correct? So have your marketing people make a "pretty" landing page for the app, and you can change your app settings to point to the pretty landing page. Maybe all that landing page is a redirect to your Facebook fan page.
Now that Facebook has depreciated the landing pages for apps, how do I get my app to point to the Fan page for it's landing page?
I've checked under the Advanced tab and contacts -- but there's no place I can see to list my Fan page as being linked to my application.
According to this blog post from December, new apps can create a new Fan page, but there's no information on how to do it for existing pages -- they just say that "it will be linked automatically." Unfortunately it was not -- when you post something from our app onto your wall, the link takes you to our website rather than our Fan page.
I'd love for that link to take you to our fanpage again, but I seemingly can't find any documentation on this.
It is possible. I had the same problem. What you need to do is the following:
Categorize your existing page under "App Page" (found under "Brands & Products").
Change your page name to mach your App name.
Go to your App and select "App Details"
Under "Contact Info" you will find "App Page". There you will be able to create a new page or if all went well, select your page from a list.
I found the info in the little question-mark next to "App page".
It is possible to add the application to any page you administer. This can be achieved from solutions mentioned below:
Solution 1
http://facebook.com/add.php?api_key=[YOUR_APP_KEY]&pages=1&page=[YOUR_PAGE_ID]
YOUR_APP_KEY You can get it from application settings, its App Id
YOUR_PAGE_ID You can get it through Graph Explorer https://graph.facebook.com/[PAGE_NAME]
Solution 2
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=[YOUR_APP_KEY]&next=[REDIRECT_URL]
YOUR_APP_KEY You can get it from application settings, its App Id
REDIRECT_URL Any URL you want to redirect back to after adding the tab
Official Solution
Answer from #Dvir Levy is the official solution from Facebook. The issue with that approach is that we mostly can not follow that solution. Suppose we had to add an application tab to a brand page like 'ABCXYZ', if we follow that answer then we had to change the brand page name, and we can't do it, brands/clients we work for doesn't allow these changes.
Due the recent changes on the Facebook UI, some options have changed or are under a different place.
I would like to share the up to date way to achieve this.
On your page
Access the About section
Click on Edit Page Info on the top right side.
Set one of your categories to App page
PS: May be needed your page and app share the same name, but can't confirm this.
On your app
Access your app from the Facebook Developers apps panel.
Access Settings on the left side menu.
Set the category to Apps for pages and hit Save. [#JohnMc mentioned this has to be the only category selected.]
Open the Advanced section and find the App Page block.
Under Existing page select your page and hit Save.
All set!
Note: If you remove the link between the page and the app you won't be able to link them again.
Edit: As #John Mc pointed out in the comments, App page has to be the only category selected.
Happned to me. You need to add yourself (your developer account) as manager/admin of the page. Then it will recognize the link between you and the page and the app will show the app page so you'll be able to choose it.
This is possible.
Go to you business page, add yourself as a managed (make sure you have liked the site first)
Then refresh the App Details developers page.
Select the business app page from the App page contact section.
Note the Business page has to be the Brands & Products : App Page, and the same name as the App.
Here's how to add a tab to a page.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/add_to_page/
I use the direct URL Method. Go to your page and then type the following into the address bar of your browser.
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&display=popup&next=YOUR_URL
Where YOUR_APP_ID is the app id shown in the app configuration page, and YOUR_URL is the page you want to to be redirected to once you close the dialog.
In the Facebook app config settings will be Site URL. This is the place where it's currently going, correct? So have your marketing people make a "pretty" landing page for the app, and you can change your app settings to point to the pretty landing page. Maybe all that landing page is a redirect to your Facebook fan page.
I see this issue has appeared a few times but none of the solutions have worked for me.
Here is my app: https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=168373039912688
It's basically an image of a poster: http://www.clare-ents.com/test/facebook/index.html
I want this image to be the landing page of my fan page: http://www.facebook.com/ClareEnts
I've added this as the site URL on the developer page and added it to my fan page. When I click 'Go to application' on the Apps tab on my fan page I get an error 404. Where could I have gone wrong?
The App is pointing to : http://www.clare-ents.com/help/facebook/index.html and that seems not to have anything.
But to make this app show a and image on the landing page you need to go to your app settings and change the Tab URL and point it to the image or HTML Poster you wish to display.
Then go to the app Page https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=168373039912688 and on the left menu click "Ad to My page", select the clareEnts page.
Last in your page settings select the default tab. This will be the tab where non-likers land. As an admin in wont work that way (you are always a fan is the behavior) so use another account for testing.