I have a website that I want to share to facebook
https://pvp5.com/item/12057/Sakura-Transient-House
But when facebook fetch the url it always fetch the home url
https://pvp5.com/home
I have a screenshot to prove it. I also did a basic troubleshooting turning off my caching mechanism and website page rules. Why is this happening?
Why is this happening?
Because you explicitly said so, by specifying the Canonical URL as https://pvp5.com/home for all pages.
The canonical URL should be set to the individual URL of that article/piece of content you want to share.
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We're trying to build a share widget for referral links (links that are essentially short urls - a.b.com/uniqueCode, which redirects to a client website but goes through our service and lets us track them) - essentially someone needs to share their own affiliate url on Facebook.
The problem is Facebook seems to always resolve the url to the final destination, and doesn't display the url we pass in. I can't find any documentation on whether there's a way to prevent this or not. We've tried both with a 301 and 302 redirect, with no change. I've tried different urls to make sure we're not seeing the result of their url caching.
Is there a way to instruct Facebook (and Google Plus, Linkedin) to keep the referring link we provide?
You could try doing the redirect using Javascript.
Also, you might be able to do it by showing the social networks' crawlers different pages based on their useragent or IP or so – look into your webserver logs or so and check what happens there immediately after you've posted the link.
Before using Nginx, with Apache when I was rewriting an url, I could share a page on Facebook and it puts the correct url in the sharer.
Now, with Nginx, when I share https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://beautifulurl.com/page25 Facebook catchs only http://beautifulurl.com so I lose the full page url.
Also with AdSense I've problems(in some pages it doesn't show ads) and also with Google+ sharer.
How to fix it?
The display link of the share will always show the top level domain, when you click the shared link it will follow the URI that you've given to sharer.php
have you tried replacing the punctuation:
https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbeautifulurl.com%2Fpage25
i have a tab in a page, with an iframe to a site built up to be like a simple facebook app, where users can create simple profile pages with an image and some text.
Now, once the profile is created (which is a simple html page with its own URL), i need to be able to share it, using some sharing services (like addthis) or even the standard send button. The problem is that the original site has to be always hidden (users have to not be able to see the URL of the "site"), but the sharing system need an absolute URL to know... what to actually share.
Obiouvsly, working in an iframe, the url is always that of the facebook page (it doesn't change navigating the site's pages), so how can I do this?
Thanks.
The problem is that the original site has to be always hidden (users have to not be able to see the URL of the "site")
Why not?
Please don’t say “security concerns” right now, because you should know there is no such thing as “security by obscurity” …
If you just want to have Open Graph URLs, that can be liked and shared, but want the user clicking on one of those URLs end up being in your iframe tab on Facebook again – then do a redirect to your page tab for actual users.
Either do it via JavaScript (which the Facebook scraper does not care about); or with a server-side redirect for any client that is not the Facebook scraper (it’s identifiable by it’s user agent or originating IP address of the request).
I am trying use open graph API to publish an action. URL that I provide as part of meta data property og:url can be accessed by authenticated users only. Facebook is trying to scrape the URL and is ending up with a sign_in page due to a 302 redirect.
Do I have to construct a page just for facebook scraping with meta tags in it? Isn't this url linked to the content published on facebook?
If you want your articles to be sharable or do any SEO, you shouldn't be using 302 redirects. Bots will only see the content from the destination of the redirect.
You want to have just one URL for each piece of content. If an unauthenticated user, the Facebook Scraper, or Googlebot visits that URL, you want it to see all your Meta tags and some teaser content.
If the user isn't authenticated, use a server-side scripting language to display a register/sign_in dialog instead of the premium content. If the user is authenticated, then you show them the full content.
This is better even from a UX perspective: Say I follow the link from Facebook and register. When I sign in, how are you going to get me back to the content I wanted to see in the first place?
Suppose that I click on a facebook link -- once clicked, the URL is transformed to this:
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.stackexchange.com%2Fquestions%2F398%2Fhow-do-i-build-apps-to-my-jailbroken-ipad&h=uAQFM5WKt
And then I'm redirected to the URL I thought I was going to. Why does facebook do this?
Facebook keeps track of all the links fired from its website. It saves the url you provided as link.
First it forwards you to a facebook link where it saves the url and then it redirects to the actual url.
This way facebook knows which urls are getting most hits.
FYI, Even google does it.