Synchronizing AddThis widget with Facebook likes?

Question

I'm wondering if it is possible to synchronize the likes between the like button on your actual page & the likes you get on facebook itself!?

For example..... we currently have 15 likes on FB but the AddThis widget on our website only shows 1 like.

So I'm wondering, is there a way you can synchronize the two either with AddThis or ShareThis; doesn't matter the platform, just would prefer it to be synchronized.

I take it if you grab the code from facebook itself rather then use these services then it will be synchronized?

Answer 1

If you specifically point your like URL fb:like:href="THE URL" to your Facebook page when you call the AddThis like button it should be in sync with the likes there.

Like so:

<a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:href="THE URL TO YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE"></a>

For example:

<a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:href="http://www.facebook.com/nike"></a>

Because you reference FB Social Plugins in your tags, I can confirm that this is definitly the case for Facebook's own like button.

<div class="fb-like" data-send="false" data-layout="standard" data-width="450" data-show-faces="false" data-colorscheme="light" data-action="like" data-href="http://www.nike.com/"></div>

gives the likes for that site. And:

<div class="fb-like" data-send="false" data-layout="standard" data-width="450" data-show-faces="false" data-colorscheme="light" data-action="like" data-href="http://www.facebook.com/nike"></div>

Gives the likes displaying for their FB page.

Answer 2

I believe the issue there is a misunderstanding of the platforms or possible confusion with semantics. Someone can 'like' content on your website via a widget which will share that like to their Facebook profile. Additionally, you can display the amount of likes your website's page has with a Facebook widget or AddThis widget.

However, if you share a page from your website's Facebook page and users can like that, however that will not increment the displayed likes in the widgets aforementioned. Hopefully that clears it up?