Latest update (10.13) resets # of FB likes

The Facebook "likes" are simply associated to the URL.

The release notes answer the question:

forum_posts.asp - Social Networking Sharing now links to the forum topic and not a page within the topic

Though this should improve things for the future, as a like on page one and a like on page five with go to the same overall count, rather than different pages having different likes

What I meant was that facebook simply gets the Like count for the URL provided to the widget, either directly or by the address bar.

The widget is a simple bit of code such as "<facebook:like></facebook>" (simplified as I dont know the code of the top of my head).

So you can provide the url for the button like so "<facebook:like>http://www.example.com/page.htm</facebook>"

You can find out more on the Facebook website here. Enter different URLs and see how the preview changes.


So for example this page is:
http://forums.webwiz.net/latest-update-1013-resets-of-fb-likes_topic30585.html

Where as previously it could of been:
http://forums.webwiz.net/latest-update-1013-resets-of-fb-likes_topic30585_page1.html
http://forums.webwiz.net/latest-update-1013-resets-of-fb-likes_topic30585_page2.html
http://forums.webwiz.net/latest-update-1013-resets-of-fb-likes_topic30585_page3.html

These would be classed as different pages by Facebook and so would have different counts.


The only way it can be "Gamed" by a webmaster would be to set the url for the widget to "http://www.google.com/", but anyone who clicks the "like" button would be liking Google, not the website for the widget.

So it looks like the # of likes got restored; not sure how that happened, maybe when someone new clicks like the #s go back... but at least one topic has had its FB likes restored and that's encouraging.