Lost FaceBook Shares with URL change

[MiamiWebCompany]

I recently changed the URL of a page and used a 301 redirect from old to new. I just realized I lost all my Facebook shares. Now it shows 0 on that page. What can I do to get back my count of shares? I cannot find any information.

[jennita]

Hi Erik,

I'm not sure there's a way to get those shares back. I do know however that Twitter follows the rel=canonical on a page so you might want to try that instead as a test to see if Facebook will honor it as well.

Hope this helps a bit!

Jen