Facebook like counter has reset itself

  • I’ve been running a website for 6 years. Some pages had accrued over 10k worth of Facebook likes. I recently had some problems with the site having been hacked and upgraded to a https. I then used Simple SSL to fix all my links. However, I have recently noticed that the feedback counters on every single page have reset themselves and have started counting up again from scratch. The page that once read ￡10K now only reads 38!

    Have I lost all these Facebook likes forever or is there any way of getting them back?

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    This is a FB issue, not a WordPress one. When you changed your site’s URLs from http to https, FB saw the likes as coming from a different site.

    Adam

    (@adamlachut)

    You may fix this changing (or adding):
    <meta property=”og:url” content=”http://www.mydomain.com” />
    or installing dedicated plugin, like Really SImple SSL Social

    BTW:
    – after switching to https:// you also need to verify new domains in Google Search Console and send new sitemaps
    – if you have been hacked, switching to https:// will not help

    A.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Adam.
    Thread Starter yourcivillaw

    (@yourcivillaw)

    Thanks. I tried finding Really Simple SSL Social in wordpress plugins but nothing shows up.

    I have absolutely no idea what a sitemap is and how I’m supposed to send one to Google. Guess I just lost all of my links and traffic because I was stupid enough to believe that https would make my site more secure and trustworthy, without being told I’d need a degree in computer science so as not to turn my website into a pile of scrap.

    Adam

    (@adamlachut)

    This is paid plugin, it’s easy to find – just ask Google about ‘Really Simple SSL Social’ (I can’t paste a link because the links are quite restricted here).

    If you’ve enabled redirection in some way (if your visitors are automatically redirected from https://yoursite to https://yoursite with code 301) Google at last “switch” the link juice to the new page, but it will take more time and there may be some fluctuations in SERP and in the traffic
    You may check if redirection works properly on this page:
    https://www.redirect-checker.org/
    (just put your domain with https:// and you should get 301 redirection to https://)

    A.

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