Solution for Different Facebook Like and Google Plus count due to ccTLD
One possible solution for the above said problem is to use Canonical tags wisely. The canonical tags will helps you to control the change of social share counts in country specific URL. For this follow the steps below.You can see data:post.url variable which is used for promoting the blog post, then you have to replace it with data:post.canonicalUrl. If you are using data:blog.url then replace it with data:blog.canonicalUrl. By doing this simple trick your Facebook Like and Google Plus counts will be restored into actual states.
The same trick can be used in Facebook comments widget. Some bloggers are reporting different Facebook comments due to ccTLD. This can be rectified by replacing data:post.url tag with data:post.canonicalUrl.
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