I had a look at your site, and saw that Facebook does find the same number of Likes and Shares for each one of your posts:
Since that would be quite the coincidence, I took a closer look by entering one of your posts’ URL into Facebook’s debugger. It shows us what Facebook sees when crawling your posts for information:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.knysnacrimewatch.co.za%2Fknysnas-cocaine-captains-on-tv%2F
As you can see, Facebook crawls the URL and receives information that it should be looking at numbers from another page instead: the root page of your site.
http://i.wpne.ws/Y6J7
http://i.wpne.ws/Y5be
That’s happening because your theme includes Meta tags redirecting Facebook to your site’s home page. These tags can be found on all the pages of your site:
http://i.wpne.ws/Y5hm
You’ll consequently need to edit your theme and remove these Open Graph Meta tags. You can remove all of them, as Jetpack already takes care of adding the correct Open Graph Meta tags to your site for you.
I hope this helps.
Excellent, Jeremy. I appreciate your effort.
I found that the problem was with Weaver, the theme i respect the most. In the advanced options, i’d added a “Preferred Image for Facebook”. That must have been conflicting with Jetpack.
The irony is that the reason why i’d done that is because Jetpack Publicise wasn’t sending an image to Facebook and posts without images definitely get less viewership. Rid of one problem but back to the old.
But this problem was the bigger one for me so thank you.
Jetpack Publicise wasn’t sending an image to Facebook
Jetpack will only add an image tag to your Open Graph meta tags if you’ve inserted an image into the post or set a Featured Image, and if that image is larger than 200x200px.
if you continue to experience issues, I’d suggest using larger images. If none of his helps, let me know!
