Facebook (GD Social Like Widget) not counting in Google Chrome

You shouldn’t be looking at any listing Guust! – my site has somehow received a like (at the top of my home page), but interestingly enough not on any of any other pages. I must admit to not being a ‘Facebook Person’ and not up with how it all works – I assumed that people on facebook can show their appreciation of my site in their Facebook world and that someone had done so. It was visible in Firefox (on my home page), but only fleetingly on opening the page in Chrome: it appeared, then the map re-loaded (geo-locating?) and the Like count reset to 0. I turned geolocation of, reloaded page, and now Chrome shows the correct count, even with geolocation on – However, the correct count only shows on homepage, and shows 0 on all other pages I have tested.

Your asking ‘which listing?’ makes me wonder: can people who live in facebook-world choose to like either my site or any of the listings, with all appropriate counts being kept?

Hi Paolo,

I had tried logged-in and not logged in on the different browsers. Now both seem to be showing count ok.

I still have issue of count showing only on home page – as well as wondering if all listings keep a count separate from my site’s count, and if I should therefore put the fb widget on the right details sidebar?

…interestingly, I have just tested and my smartphone exhibits the same behaviour as Chrome on my laptop did: it registered a count of one, then reloaded and showed a count of 0. (its an Ubuntu smartphone).

… our messages are crossing! – ok, so I’ll only have the facebook likes for my site on the homepage, so as avoid spreading out my likes! I guess that means that listing pages can gather their own likes… now I have to find someone in FB-land to see what happens when I am liked.

Still the issue of disappearing likes…

OK, I think I have found out what is happening:

when I open the browser (Chrome) and then my website, the homepage is displayed, with the ‘like’ count for that page; then the browser automatically decides to geolocate me (cookie setting?) and re-loads the map with listings near to me – this is not treated as the same page and that’s where the count was re-setting to zero. How do I know it is not being treated as the same page? Because I set the widget to just show on GD Home page, and when the page reloads the widget disappears.

So I guess I am going to do without the social like widget.