Re: Facebook Code Problem and Your Site

**"* R* B* <k*@gardendesigninc.com>**

If by JB you mean John Bartram, he's been there and gone.  He moved on to
the next set of rankings.

And God knows that Kirk thought Code 404 was an emergency call number
requiring paddles and CPR training.

Kirk

-----Original Message-----
From: gardenwriters-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[g*@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Doug Green
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 9:52 AM
To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum
Subject: [GWL] Facebook Code Problem and Your Site

Folks -If you have Facebook" likes" enabled for your site (the small "like"
buttons you put on each page) here's a quick update on Facebook code.  Go to
your stats and check if you have a file in there called fb/channel.html  You
didn't build this page but it's been added automatically by Facebook.
The problem is that it is blank - no content at all, not even a 404 message.
But Google is seeing it as a blank page and the more Facebook traffic you
have, the worse the problem becomes (the more blank pages and reader
dissatisfaction you're creating)

This is some form of glitch at Facebook, not within your own code and if you
Google the file name above, you're going to find some interesting code-hack
to repair it and/or commentary about it re your search engine rankings.

Due to the structure of my site, I've just pulled down all the offending FB
code to eliminate this blank page issue.

If you don't have Facebook integrated into your site and you don't have the
filename above, you can ignore this note.  If you do - then you either
implement the code hack or you remove the FB integration if you want to hold
your rankings.

If this is so much tech-speak to you (hello JB!) then simply pass it along
to your tech people.

Doug

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Doug Green
Editor-in-Chief, SGF Publishing
One million readers a month can't all be wrong
http://www.douggreensgarden.com/about.html <http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com>
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