1st blog post had wrong date, changing it loses shares likes

  • sagasu44

    (@sagasu44)


    10 years ago

    Hi,
    I have just started a new blog and wrote my first post on 21st November. However, the published date shows 16th September. I did not even look at the date when I published as normally the date is automatically the date it is first published.

    I realise I could change the date to the correct one, but doing so means I lose all the share counts, and naturally I would like to keep them.

    My blog post is in response to someone esles blog posted on 16th November, so it looks really bad having my response dated 2 months before the one I am responding to.

    Is there any way I can fix this and retain the shares.

    Here’s the link:
    https://bycommondissent.org/2014/09/16/joseph-smith-a-virtuous-man-not/

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Facebook tracks Shares and Likes by the URL. Since your permalink includes the date, changing the date means changing the permalink, thus starting over again with your Share and Like count.

    There really is no way around this, as the way Facebook tracks Shares and Likes is entirely up to Facebook.

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