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Had 200 Facebook Likes, now page has 1 Facebook Like! WTF?!

by gearmonkey
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I have a wordpress blog and not one, but two of my blog posts had the FB Likes wiped out.

Why is Facebook taking my Likes away???

I didn't revise the post or do anything. They are just going from 200+ Likes one minute, then 1 Like the next. Is this a flaw in Facebook or am I being penalized for something?
#200 #facebook #likes #page #wtf
  • Profile picture of the author Nero Arcnumé
    Did your URL structure change? Because depending on how your Facebook plugin is working, this could cause such a shift.

    For example, you could have a Like-box for your global site, example.com, on each page. But also a like box for example.com/post1 which will record all the likes for that URL. But if your URL changes ever so slightly (example.com/post1a), the Facebook plugin won't be able to find any Likes in the database because the URL is different.
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  • Profile picture of the author SpiderHunter
    Weird, its something technical like Nero said about the url structure in FB algorithm, I doubt all people unliked your site, its something new, try contacting FB about it, open a thread there and keep us updated.
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    • Profile picture of the author LiamP
      Did you buy the Likes? If so chances are good the accounts used to pad the count got found out and deleted by Facebook.
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  • Profile picture of the author xylement
    2 possibility. Paid like is one of it and they other will be changing of url. If there's a minor different with url, it changes the whole like counting =)
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    No I don't buy FB Likes. But I do lock some blog pages and force readers to like certain (privilege) pages. Once they Like, Tweet, or +1 the (privilege) page, they can then see the content.

    I didn't personally change the url structure. I wonder if it's a facebook plugin issue.
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    ...and for no reason, the facebook "likes" came back. This is weird.
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  • Profile picture of the author razzmo
    Hi,
    I had this one too, i had like 30 likes than refreshed the page and it was changed to 1 refreshed again, it was another number. Do not worry you did not lose your likes, probably the query was not received fully
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  • Profile picture of the author ppcer
    I have noticed a lot of glitches w/ the facebook like stats and what not. Hard telling but they definitely have some errors they need to fix in their coding.
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  • Profile picture of the author gtk29
    This is mind boggling. Facebook must be changing some code when you refreshed the page.
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    The "likes" disappeared for over a week. It wasn't a short glitch. On one page the Likes came back, the other page the Likes didn't come back yet.

    Facebook is quirky.
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    • Profile picture of the author Targeted Traffic
      Originally Posted by gearmonkey View Post

      The "likes" disappeared for over a week. It wasn't a short glitch. On one page the Likes came back, the other page the Likes didn't come back yet.

      Facebook is quirky.
      Yep it can manifest this character at times...
      I usually notice my friend count vary...increases and decreases...and without me having prior activity...
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