There was a recent discussion on my Facebook page about why some people cannot post links in comments on Facebook while others can.
I did a little research and here are a few possible solutions:
- Encapsulate your link with < and > like: <http://…>
- Hit the space bar twice (although once might work for some) before and after your link.
- Instead of pasting the entire URL, leave out the http:// and start with www instead. (Thanks Turkana, for the suggestion!)
I don't have trouble with the links I post, so I'm not sure if it'll work, but for those of you who are frustrated, it might be worth a try. Let me know if it solves the problem!
(And by the way, if you haven't liked my Facebook page, you might consider it! I post tips there I don't necessarily post here and I'd love to hang out with you there!)
Just as a correction to the proposed solutions, I have just got to the bottom of this issue and number one and two are both the same fix but unnecessarily complicated. Posting ANYTHING after the link works, a space, full stop, further text (that is exactly what adding a space does or encapsulating it which adds a symbol after the link). Number three also works. Clearly something amiss in Facebook's coding.
Thanks JDP.
Worked for me, thanks.
It's very frustrating, I tried all of the above, but linking doesn't work for me for some reason. I commented on a TechCrunch article, and wanted to post a link to a similar post, and the link did not show up properly at all. It was just shown as text. I tried all of your methods, but it really doesn't work at all. How frustrated!
Yes I have the same problem I can fin a way to post link on faceboock, This so frustrating it was working perfectly before and they screw it up, Need help Please
I've got this same problem, I think facebook switched the solution on us.
thanks so much posting without http worked perfectly for me.
tq very much.. help me a lot =)
hey i cant understand your method
Hmm. Didn't really work for me…
Having an issue not being able to post a link in my fan page, yet no problem on my personal page. So frustrating! Any new thoughts? Your site was the best I found so far.
I don't know if other are in the same situation as I was, but I just tried making a couple links in a Facebook comment and they didn't show up as links. I then decided to put the "www." back in front of the links and it worked. Sometimes I remove the "http://www." so that a link takes less space to display in a comment, but doing so can confuse programs like Facebook.
An example of what I did is that I started out listing a website like this "google.com" and the link didn't work, so I changed the link to "www.google.com" and it did work.
Is this a browser version issue? I run into a number of inconsistent posting problems at times — sometimes Facebook refuses to allow me select a photo from the linked page, for example—but today was the first day that a link failed to be acknowledged. I'm using Firefox 3.6 on Mac OS X 10.4.11 — quite old by current standards but the highest version I can run on my hardware. More and more websites are failing on me, so I realize this is a fact that I must address at some point…
i'm also using firefox it works 4 me
paste your link like this press space and then enter
wtf when i post the link here for example it disappears lol
It's not working for me.
It really works for me thank you so much
it works with and without http
I am having the same problem and have not found the answer yet.
Wow, thanks for the tip, it does indeed work as you suggested, simple but effective:)
Great Blog Post, helped me to post link on Facebook Comments.
Sorry, but no one of the here above explained methods work. I still struggle to leave a working link in a Facebook comment. And don't see why…
Tried for some time, link doesn't work that way in the comments.
I think, the FB plugin just strip the hyperlink and make a normal text to avoid mass spamming or so!
So Nice of you Amy
Thanls for this tip its working