How to move facebook likes on wordpress from one domain to another

Question

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 ?

Answer 1

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 www.foo.co.uk and 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.