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Stop Facebook Showing Old Page Titles

Written by Dan Mossop

When you share a link on Facebook, the link is displayed in your Facebook post along with the page title that Facebook retrieves from your site. However, if you've recently updated the page's title, you may find that Facebook continues to show the old title. This occurs because Facebook is taking the title from a stored (cached) copy of your page.

One way to prevent this from happening is to tell Facebook to reload the page before you share the link. You can do this by entering your page URL into the Facebook Debugger Tool and clicking "fetch new scrape information". Facebook will then reload the page and show you a preview of what your shared link will look like. When you're happy with how it looks you can go ahead and share the link via Facebook.

I'm not aware of a way to tell Facebook to update the titles on previously shared links, however.

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About Dan Mossop

Dan is a Scottish-born web developer, now living in Brisbane with his wife and son. He has been sharing tips and helping users with Divi since 2014. He created Divi Booster, the first Divi plugin, and continues to develop it along with 20+ other Divi plugins. Dan has a PhD in Computer Science, a background in web security and likes a lot of stuff, 

2 Comments

  1. Minneapolis Battle of the Jug Bands on January 25, 2022 at 2:15 am

    OMG. This totally worked. In desperation I Googled how to stop FB from showing our old website, which had references to 2020, and which showed in the FB post preview. I did this debugging and now the post on our FB page is correct! Many thanks!

    Reply
    • dan on January 25, 2022 at 7:09 pm

      You're welcome! :)

      Reply

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