I have an Official Facebook page I've setup for my new company.
I have a like button on my website with the appropriate meta tags related to that website.
But when Someone clicks the "like" button, it "likes" a page on facebook that facebook has automatically created thats not related to my own Facebook Fan Page using the META tags into from my webpage. I am using the iframe code for the like button.
How can I stop this happening? Thanks so much.
On the site you have chosen the Style of your "like" Button you have to put in the Url of your company Facebook page again, if you don't do this you'll get a like-Button for a Facebook page.
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In Facebook docs it says:
Can I link the Like button to my Facebook page?
Yes. Simply specify the URL of your Facebook page in
the href parameter of the button.
My problem is that I don't want the Facebook page to be the target of the 'like'.
So currently, the like button on my site attributes the likes to the root domain 'http://example.com/', which is what I want.
This has got many more likes than the facebook page 'http://facebook.com/examplecompage'
Is there a way to make the likes on my facebook page contribute towards the root domain likes?
That is not possible, since they are treated as 2 different objects.
And just to clarify, the documentation on the Facebook developer site is referring to the Like button that you create to be displayed on your site, not the Like button you get on Facebook automatically when you create a page.
I have web page which needs users to sign-in (not FB signin though), and need to add share button to it. Issue is when I share that page, it only posts link to the wall. og image and og:description tags are ignored.
btw i am using iframe to show fb:like
Can you please let me know how to solve this issue?
You need to generate open graph tags even when user is not logged in.
Afternoon,
I have a facebook application that i have added to a facebook fan page, this application has an URL like http://facebook.com/fanPage?sk=app_id. Now i if copy this link and try and share it on the facebook fan page it uses the description/image from the page and not from the application like it want.
Is there any way to change this? The correct meta tags are in place.
Peter
yes there is a way, but not directly. facebook always fetches the meta tags of the top page, as your app runs in an iframe its not fetched.
but you can submit a wallpost (as user or as a fanpage) via the api and give alle information you want. (like image, video, description, title, ....)
see http://www.fbrell.com/fb.ui/feed for an example.
An other variant:
You add a canvas app beside your facebook app. (see the app settings) on this page you add the meta tags for the wallposts, and a javascript which redirects to the fanpage like
top.location.href = 'http://www.facebook.com/mypage?sk=app_id'
when ever you want to share you use the canvas app url. Facebooks greper ignores the javascript redirects but read the meta tags. A user clicking the wallpost is automaticly redirected to the fanpage - tab.
For example, I have an article in my site,
http://abc.com/1.html
and I put a like button plugin from Facebook in the website for this article (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like)
And I also have a fan page in Facebook and share this article (by sharing a link).
If I press the link button in my site, the fan page like for this article does not add up. And vice versa, if I click the like button of this article in fan page, it does not reflect on the website either.
So is it the default behavior? I thought the article URL is provided for the Facebook Like plugin, the info should be linked. Anything I am missing here?
Thanks.
When you put an Like Button on your website for this particular article,
it's usually linked to an "Open Graph FaceBook Page", not your regular Facebook Fan Page, with a wall page. Open Graph FaceBook Page will redirect users to your own website. The good part of it, is that you'll be able to post news in the fans news feed.
When you share that article on your Fan Page, fans would LIKE the news feed post, not your website's article.
You can link the like buttons to your Fan Page, but you'll loose specific article liking capabilities.
As described in the doc (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like) :
Can I link the Like button to my Facebook page?
Yes. Simply specify the URL of your Facebook page in the href parameter of the button.
The first like is for your site, the second like is for the feed story -- they are two distinct objects.
Is this possible?
When someone clicks a Facebook Like button, he/she shares the web page URL with friends on Facebook.
With the same click, the user also becomes a fan of the web site's Facebook fan page.
Thanks!
While adding a Like button on your website to like you "Facebook Page" is possible (and I guess you know that), you can't use the same button to like multiple entities (your current page and the Facebook Page).
What you can do is:
Have two Like buttons, one for the current page and one for the Facebook Page
Place the Like button of your Facebook Page in a "visible" location (e.g. on top of the sidebar)
Capture the like event of your current page (with edge.create)
Encourage the user to "Become a Fan on Facebook too" whenever they like your current page.
See this link on Facebook's developer site.
This will do all the points 1 and 3 you mentioned above. As far as point 2 goes, you will need to reference that on your facebook page.