What Happens To Social Media Love After A 301?

[diywm]

Say you have a WordPress site with a number of posts that have all been given lots of tweets, G+, FB likes and other social media love, and say you are showing that using a social media plugin on each post that shows the counts of all of these.

If you 301 redirect the pages to another site, will the social media love counts follow, or will the page on the new site have to start again as far as social media is concerned?

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[Klarke]

Read:

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2172926/How-to-Maintain-Social-Shares-After-a-Site-Migration

[diywm]

Thanks. So the answer is no - they cannot be moved, but we can set it up that the numbers on the new page refer to the SM love counts on the old.