Problem with facebook cache

  • Resolved fabriziomazzei

    (@fabriziomazzei)


    4 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    given that Yoast SEO works well, I’m wondering whether something I have in mind is doable.

    At the moment:
    – I create blog articles and set all the yoast stuff and plan them for the whole next month
    – I create posts on Facebook linking to the articles and plan them for the whole next month.

    As you can imagine, when I plan the posts using the links, Facebook correctly sees a 404 page and loads that as preview.

    The day the social post goes live, even though the blog article had been published hours earlier, it still displays the first preview it had in the cache, the 404 one.

    This happens even though between the moment the blog article is published and the moment the social post is published, I use facebook debugger tool.

    1mil dollar question: is there a way to automatically change this?

    Thank you
    Fabrizio

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  • Hi @fabriziomazzei,

    Facebook does cache the results of the URLs shared on the platform.

    We’re not aware of an automatic way to clear the cache before publishing posts, but you can manually update the cache before the publish date using the Facebook Sharing Debugger. There is a “Scrape Again” button and a link to a tool for multiple URLs, the Batch Invalidator.

    Thread Starter fabriziomazzei

    (@fabriziomazzei)

    Hi Priscilla,

    Thank you, I know the tool, and I tried it, but unfortunately as I wrote, even scraping the URL when it’s live but before the social post is published, doesn’t work.

    The social post keeps showing the first preview it generated, i.e. the 404 page preview.

    Any other idea?

    Thank you
    Fabrizio

    Plugin Support Md Mazedul Islam Khan

    (@mazedulislamkhan)

    We are afraid to say that we don’t have any workaround except using the Facebook object debugger after republishing the relevant page. When you use the Facebook object debugger and re-scrape the relevant page, Facebook clears the cache for that particular page and stores new information.

    You may need to re-scrape a few times though.

    Thread Starter fabriziomazzei

    (@fabriziomazzei)

    Well, thank you, it was worth asking ??

    Fabrizio

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