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Context: I have a site that has a central Like button (one that connects to the Facebook page for our organization), and each of our articles also has its own Like button (the button that's really more like a "share" button).
Question: Is it possible to see the origins of the individual likes on one of the articles? For the likes directly to the Facebook page, we can just go to the page and view the users who like it. But for the individual articles, the like count is generated completely differently (shares, "likes", the link being posted in PM's, etc.), and there appears to be no centralized "here's where this number is coming from" page. Is there any way to get an idea of where article likes are coming from?
Thanks!
This is covered on the Like Button documentation
See What is the best way to know which Like button on my page generated the traffic?
You add a ref parameter to the like button, and the value of this will come back in the inbound clicks as the fb_ref parameter in the referring URL
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I need to create a "contest" page where user will be asked to submit picture.
After that, they should be able to share their picture on FB, Twitter, G+, Pinterest, etc for other people to come and vote.
I want the page to be displayed as a jQuery gallery and whenever people select a thumbnail, the bigger picture open with the associated vote and "share" button.
When a user share an image, I want a specific TITLE & URL associated with that particular image... something like "http://www.mysite.com/contest.html#picture1"... or "http://www.mysite.com/contest.html#picture2"
How is this possible if I only have one page?
I wouldn't have problem if I could use the old "facebook.com/sharer.php" with parameters... but it seems that the Open Graph Protocol is "overiding" the sharer.php parameters....
Works fine with Twitter and Pinterest... I might have the same problem with Google+.
Excuse my bad english, thanks!
Well, set up a (“dummy”) page for each picture, and fill it with the appropriate OG tags … and have your users like that. And then put a JS redirect into that page, so that users following the link when it’s shared on Facebook will get to the “real” address you want them to end up at.
(Btw., IMHO this is what happens too often these days when people think doing everything client-side and client-side only is so “fancy” and that a “good” and “modern” site requires all that AJAX/one-page-only nonsense instead of a real good and working URL structure, and then are not able to handle all that this implies properly …)
I have an online bachelor catalog and I want people to Like a bachelor and have it appear on their FB feed.
http://gothamrfc.org/drupal/?q=2012catalog
I set up the Like button using the Social Plugins feature on FB. All bachelors are on the same page and they have anchors http://gothamrfc.org/drupal/?q=2012catalog#waldmann and the Like button refers to each anchor.
My problem is when the user clicks on Like, it posts the same picture of one bachelor, not of the one that they liked. I didn't see anything in my js file. I also added the og button but that didn't work.
How do I adjust the code so Like button corresponds to the correct photo?
I'm sure it's something simple. Thank you for your assistance.
Im having the same issue really... My current solution is to hard-code the URL of the image in the like button ref code.
The only issue with this is that it will show that image ONLY, on a blank page when someone clicks the liked image on a user's facebook page.
I'm still looking for answers since the only alternative I've found is to create individual pages for each image (each blog post, in my case) and link to THOSE pages. Not ideal and much more work than I'd like.
have a look at my blog page on my website to see what I mean: MarinePix Blog
Does anyone know how to determine how many people click the LIKE button on a specific tab in Facebook? We've created new Tab (new iframe tabs), and would like to determine how effective they are at getting people to Like us. So, if we have a free offer tab and an About Us tab, and each of those has the Facebook like button on it (standard FB like button), how can we determine how many Liked us from that tab (to know if the tab is effective or not)?
should work if you extend the like url with an ref param. e.g.
?ref=about
see https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/397/ for more information.
I've seen some similar q and a items on here, but not quite what I'm looking for.
I have a facebook page, and what I would like is to present the user with a search box that allows them to search the friends for that page. Much like the search box in facebook, if I typed in 'Ale' it would auto-complete with the 'Alexs' etc that are friends with the page.
Note I just want to use a list of friends for the page, and I am admin for that page. What I would like to do is be able to save the name selected when the user hits submit.
All thoughts gratefully received!
Thanks,
Matt
For pages there is a link under the Like count which will show the list of people who have liked the page in a lightbox window. I don't believe this is searchable though.
You could make one and put it in your landing page though. Only trouble with this is that for users who already Like the page, they won't get the landing page by default.
Edit: what's it actually for?
Facebook has "pages" for many things, like people, companies, etc. But it also has this open graph protocol. My company already has a web site, and we also have a facebook page (i.e. http://www.facebook.com/company)
People can "like" either one. We use a like iframe on the company website that refers to the website URL. I'd like to know if they can be connected such that when someone likes our facebook page, they really like our company's web site.
Or are these always going to be considered two different things?
To elaborate on puffpio's answer, you can have a like button for your existing page on you website by using the existing page's facebook url as the href parameter.
It is essential that you do not put a like button to your url if you do not want your likes split between the two. In this scenario there is no reason to have an open graph object for your page other than to provide correct data when a user shares your url in their feed. It's important to note that these shares also count towards the counter on the like button and as far as I know there is no way to recover them.
You can also use this url as your og:url tag however this will cause the linter to throw errors since the domains do not match.
No. Page and website is something different and you can't force user to like both
They are different things, but a workaround is that the like button on the company's website can be a like button for their page on Facebook with a caveat like 'Like us on Facebook' or something