I was wondering if Search Engine spiders can see the comments, when I open the source of the page the comments are not showing up (same as with disqus), so I'm assuming when the search engines crawl the page they won't see the comments either? Is this assumption correct? If so, is there a way to change this?
Found the solution:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/
How can I get an SEO boost from the comments left on my site?
The Facebook comments box is rendered in an iframe on your page, and
most search engines will not crawl content within an iframe. However,
you can access all the comments left on your site via the graph API as
described above. Simply grab the comments from the API and render them
in the body of your page behind the comments box. We recommend you
cache the results, as pulling the comments from the graph API on each
page load could slow down the rendering time of the page.
Only what get thrown to a crawl engine the crawl engine can see, hence these comments should be outputted in able to get crawled and saved into the SE database or whatever it uses to collect data about websites, you might check the headers the connection request came from, if it belongs to a crawl engine and that's called a user agent in our case humans (browsers), here you can find a way to detect crawlers using PHP, after detecting it you force the comments to be shown in order to get crawled, here also a good resource on how to deal with crawlers from Google itself.
Now if you're talking about Facebook comments, it's impossible to let them indexed by the crawler or SE, when a crawler attempt to visit one of the Facebook pages it won't be able to see users' data because of the login page, and if you are talking about Facebook plugins you may do what what I suggested above, article talking about Facebook comments crawling.
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So I had asked a question a couple of months ago with regards to this issue I was facing with Facebook unable to fetch the required Open Graph tags from a couple of pages on my website presumably because of the heavy content on the page.
URL where I'm facing this issue:
https://dietbros.com/fat-burning/the-ultimate-fat-burning-foods-list/
Although the page is very lengthy (~50,000 words) and has around 130 images, it's not more than 10mb because the images have been highly optimized.
Unfortunately, I haven't received any responses to the question and I'm wondering if there are any alternate solutions to the issue. Facebook's docs state that:
"Optimizing Metadata
You can optimize content by delivering only Open Graph meta tags to the crawler and only the content itself to regular users. Alternatively, you can choose to point the crawler to a separate page used only for metadata with ."
They also state:
"The URL where your content is hosted should contain the required Open Graph tags."
1) How can I achieve this when Facebook times out before picking up the tags at all or does it get redirected before the time out? And if this is possible, how do I go about doing this (duplicate the post minus the content?)?
2) Are there any alternative solutions to this issue where I can somehow get the Facebook crawler to pick up the OG tags?
I'd be super grateful if I could get any help with this as social media traffic is arguably the most important source of traffic for us considering the kind of content we cover and the niche we're in. Would love any sort of help that would point us in the right direction.
Is it possible to mirror Facebook comments from my Facebook page on a post to my site using the comments plugin? I've been searching and cant really find anything regarding this subject. thanks
If all you need is to "mirror" that, then this is probably possible by using:
GET /{POST-ID}/comments?access_token=PAGE-ACCESS-TOKEN
However, if you are looking for a plugin, the nearest plugin for this is the Embedded Posts but that will only show the numbers of comments:
What do people see in Embedded Posts?
The embedded post will show any
media attached to it, as well as the number of likes, shares, and
comments that the post has. Embedding posts will let people using your
web site see the same rich information that is shown on Facebook.com,
and they will enable people to follow or like content authors or Pages
directly from the embed.
I am trying to achieve similar functionality to the one shown here...http://blackmilkclothing.com/collections/leggings/products/circuit-board-grey-leggings
there fan page https://www.facebook.com/blackmilkclothing allows people to hash tag a photo and then populate it on their website like the link above.
Loading a series of tagged images from my facebook fan page to my website. I am not positive how this is acheived? I am assuming some kind of api process but any help in the right direction would be appreciated.
Thanks! All help is appreciated
See the 'tagged' connection of a Page in the Graph API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/page/
It returns a list of objects the page is tagged in, including photos
If you need background knowledge I suggest these links in particular:
Graph API overview: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
Page login: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/pages/
After a good bit of trial and error I've found the most efficient way to query photos tagged to a particular Facebook page is to use Facebook's FQL interface to retrieve a list of stream posts.
With FQL you can limit the queried objects to only those posts containing images (unlike with the higher-level Graph API calls which will return all posts, many of which may not have associated photos), and you'll also have more granular control over composition of the result set.
Keep in mind that Facebook doesn't have true hashtag support (only Facebook pages can be tagged), so to simulate the hashtag support that Black Milk Clothing encourages, you'll need to parse and filter the photo message text yourself.
As an alternative quick and easy solution, I've rolled the results of my efforts into a free online service called TagTray -- with TagTray I've added an interface for building and curating hashtag based galleries from Facebook, Instagram, and TwitPic (including application-level Facebook hashtag filtering) that can be framelessly embedded into a site with a few lines of JavaScript.
I am looking at replacing the comments on my news site with a facebook comments box. This would mean that every time someone posts a news article people can comment on it. This would require many comment boxes for many urls.
On the front page of my site however, I have a feed to all the comments that are posted all over the page. This makes is useful for people to see the discussion happening around the site.
Is there a way to show all the comments that are being posted on my site in one location if I move to facebook comments?
Essentially it would be a feed of all the comments from the different urls.
For each url you have, you would need to occasionaly pull the comments down using the Facebook Graph Comments API with a URL like: https://graph.facebook.com/comments/?ids=http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments. You would then need to build something to display this. There are no social plugins built for this.
I want to build my own list of the most 'liked' pages on Facebook. FB itself appears to do a version of this, at least for each letter of the alphabet. Each directory page, such as http://www.facebook.com/directory/pages/A lists the top 20 most liked pages starting with that letter.
If I knew the IDs of every FB page then I could easily grab its like count using the graph API, but I don't know of a way to get that initial list. I'm sure it's huge, and honestly, I really would rather just have the top 20% or so of all pages. But if I had them all I could do the sorting myself.
I've searched the FB dev forums and looked through their docs but can't find a way. Queries using FQL don't appear to take wildcards either.
In FQL, you can search the page table by name. This doesn't allow wildcard searches though. Using the graph api, you can perform page searches using this url:
https://graph.facebook.com/search?type=page&q=test (You would want to future proof this by adding an access_token parameter to the end). A third option would by to use search engines to search for Facebook pages. Finally, you could scrape and parse the Facebook page browser by using this url.