Keeping FACEBOOK Like counts through name changes

[NC Software]

I've seen several incarnations of the Facebook LIKE button implementation over the past year. Now we have the latest one per the link in the AC 7 admin feed which points to:

http://blog.ablecommerce.com/social-med ... ebar-links

In the past there was an implementation that needed our Application ID - I guess that's no longer needed, or at least for this implementation?

The biggest problem I've had with these implementations is that if I change my product name at all, I lose my LIKE count and it starts over again. I can imagine too that as we upgrade to AC vNext later in life something could change in this URL and again we have lost our count. It would be nice if someone could offer a more "permalink" solution so that given a product the LIKE count will never change. Whether we build a custom url such as StoreUrl/r/{ProductID} so that /r is a redirector that can take a Product ID and find the product. This could then always be used as a permalink for any situation such as this.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Ideas?

[Logan Rhodehamel]

Changing your URL is bad for more than just facebook, it is something that should be avoided entirely. Starting with v706 we offered tools to help manage urls and redirections so that you may pick URLs that make sense for your products and maintain them indefinitely.

[NC Software]

But you had to enable "something" to allow those custom URL's to work - can't remember, and I had a problem with that system. Maybe I need to revisit it and see if I can get it to work this time around. I'm using 707. I would like a URL that will never change again for this very reason alone. My IIS site is multi-homed, I have several domains such as logbookpro.com etc. that point to the store's default nc-software.com so I have to see how that will be impacted as well.

[Logan Rhodehamel]

If you want URLs that do not end in aspx you had to enable something in the web.config... and this can be done from the admin screen by clicking the buton. This is an IIS7+ feature only. On all supported IIS versions you can pick a static url that ends in aspx without enabling anything.

[NC Software]

I'm going to have to embed a URL I believe as my new store that I will soon be building is going to have tabs/pages like many sites do for products now separating features, specs, purchase like Apple, Samsung, etc. into separate pages. Even if I used something inline like ComponentArt you still end up with a URL potentially ending in somepage.aspx#features and that can change the Facebook integration as well I believe.

http://www.apple.com/imac/