AddThis is sharing only the homepage

admin Jul 24, 2012 11:33AM EDT

I used 3dCart and have set up the AddThis integration with my profileID. When I try to share a blog article, it will only share the homepage no matter what I do. Here is the URL I'm trying to share:
http://www.lgbotanicals.com/Essential-Oil-Production-Part-V_b_18.html

I've copied the URL generated when first clicking the AddThis Facebook button and it contains the correct URL to share. However sometime between addThis getting the link and passing it to Facebook, it gets changed to the homepage URL.

I've reviewed the other answer in here about using canonical URL's, and unfortunately 3dCart doesn't generate them for blog posts for some reason, so I have no way to get the current URL and add it to the addthis:url variable.

I manage another 3dCart site, and even without canonical URL's, sharing using AddThis works correctly. Here's a post on the web site it's working on:
http://www.totalcomputing.net/Discussion-on-Utilitizing-VOIP-as-a-Means-of-Transmitting-a-Fire-Alarm-Signal_b_10.html

Any and all help is appreciated.

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Paul (AddThis Happiness Specialist) Jul 24, 2012 04:40PM EDT
Facebook doesn't work like the other AddThis buttons. Instead of accepting parameters that we pass it, Facebook requests the URL you're sharing and gets the data it displays from the meta and link tags in the header. To control how your page is shared on Facebook you should use OpenGraph tags which are described in Facebook's documentation here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/

The reason the second site works properly is because there are no Open Graph tags on that site.

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