Facebook likes in OSE when there is no Facebook Like button on the web page

[TheHutGroup]

In OSE how are page specific facebook likes calculated when the page does not have a Facebook like/share button on it? I have seen many pages with multiple Facebook likes counted against it in OSE but cannot see how people could be liking the page.

[Abe_Schmidt]

Hello and happy New Year! This is Abe from the Moz Help team. I will be attempting to answer all of your questions today.

In Opensiteexplorer, we do not reports the Likes or shares from the actual facebook page of that address. We count how many times the url has been "liked". This can be from facebook plugins on websites, links people have shared, etc.

Does this help?

[TheHutGroup]

Perfect. Thank you