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    • s2bkevin
      s2bkevin last edited by

      I've ran into a software called "Curebit" that I'm able to implement into my ecommerce site to offer coupons after customers share, so I went ahead and setup the campaign.  I ran into a couple of issues here, the facebook share that it creates doesn't have my URL on there, the shared post is a curebit link that redirects to my site.

      Does this count as a social share towards my site or towards curebit? If this only counts as a share towards curebit, would adding my site's URL in the post's description help?

      I'm trying to gain social shares towards my site to boost site reputation. Thanks!

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      • Ron_McCabe
        Ron_McCabe last edited by

        I took a look at the code and it looks like this would count to me.  One thing you could do to ensure there is a signal to analytics on these shares might be to track this as a conversion.

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        • Everett
          Everett last edited by

          I checked the following Curebit URL, which goes to Busted Tees:
          http://www.curebit.com/x/bgTxdO

          This URL 302 redirects to
          http://www.bustedtees.com/?utm_source=Curebit&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=Rebate, which then has a 200 status code.

          What this means is that there will be no page-rank flowing through to the destination URL. So no it does not "count" in that way.

          However, I have no idea whether the social shares portion of Google's algorithm, and I assume there is one, looks at 302 and 301 redirects differently than the part that calculates pagerank for organic search results.

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