Timeline for virtual page using url parameters to solve facebook sharing issues
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| Nov 12, 2019 at 23:01 | comment | added | Debbie Kurth | Problem solved. | |
| Nov 12, 2019 at 22:41 | vote | accept | Debbie Kurth | ||
| Nov 12, 2019 at 22:39 | answer | added | Debbie Kurth | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 8:59 | history | edited | Debbie Kurth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 10, 2019 at 7:59 | comment | added | Debbie Kurth | Anything after the '?' is removed. I even tried encoding the parameters, same results. | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 7:59 | comment | added | Debbie Kurth | Facebook strips the URL parameters, thus the link become unvalid and my code with no parameters, send the link to the "missing page". I need the parameters there in order to have the link work. | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 7:58 | comment | added | Debbie Kurth | Using Javascript works for changing the meta tags..and very well. Simple and direct. tested it on other social media and works brilliantly. It is changed after the page starts to load. The social media plugin I used has a default and I just change the default. | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 7:53 | comment | added | Jacob Peattie | And, sorry, but when I said using JavaScript to change the parameters, I meant change the meta tags. | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 7:52 | comment | added | Jacob Peattie | Look. There’s no point going back and forth like this until you actually define the problem. “Facebook does not play ball” is not a description of a problem. What, specifically, is Facebook not doing? | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 7:49 | comment | added | Debbie Kurth | I turned off all the SEO (Yoast) and had the same issue. And I am not using Javascript to change the parameters, I am changing them to represent the title of the page and image displayed. | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 7:49 | comment | added | Jacob Peattie | It doesn’t matter if it’s dynamic. If your SEO plugin is not aware of your parameters it’s going to report the page to Facebook as the same page regardless. Using JavaScript is not the right way to change the parameters. | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 7:47 | comment | added | Debbie Kurth | It is a dynamic page. A reference, that is accepted by facebook, is necessary. So the parameters have to be converted into some kind of virtual page...and thus readable by the page code..in order to know what data to present. | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 7:46 | comment | added | Debbie Kurth | Yes, already doing that. But the parameters are necessary for click viability. Otherwise Facebook says the page is "bad". Parameters, for facebook share, are stripped off. | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 7:45 | comment | added | Jacob Peattie | Modifying the meta tags with Javascript Is probably not sufficient. You need to make sure that they’re correctly generated based on the parameters. Whatever SEO plugin you’re using probably has filters for this. Changing the URL to not use parameters isn’t going to solve your problem if the meta tags and canonical URL appear identical. | |
| Nov 10, 2019 at 7:35 | history | asked | Debbie Kurth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |