Background
I have a domain say www.foo.com. I host my wordpress blog there.
There are many facebook likes on the posts i have put up.
Now I have redirected www.foo.com to www.boo.com and closed the foo.com domain.(On the server i have simply copied the files from foo.com to boo.com’s folder.The database is the same for both.)
Problem
The problem i am facing is that the facebook likes are “Gone”. How can i retrieve the facebook likes? Are the likes linked to domain name ?
You can do this with a 301 redirect, although its not 100% reliable.
I kept my goggle page rank and facebook page likes when moving between http://www.foo.co.uk and http://www.foo.com I completely changed the design and url (although foo was the same). Facebook and google+ and google page rank followed the 301’s and attributed it to the new page. Having said that if your original site is closed it may be a problem.
You cant do this. Even if in your case it is a valid request – think about the meaning of this action. if it were possible people couild just move likes from pages to other pages, from applications and from websites… users that liked “foo.com” DIDNT like “boo.com”, the fact that the content is exactly the same is purely coincidence. The user did not “like” that second URL therefore you can not “move” likes…
Perhaps if you contact facebook (as a developer) they might be able to assist you – but there is no method that us (non Mark Zuckerberg types) can do.