The number of Share coungts reset to zero after updating/editing my post

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  yamstergroup · Member · Sep 14, 2015 at 9:48 am

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  My share counts have reset to zero after I edited/updated my posts such as change of the photos in the post. Is there any way to prevent this? (Sometimes I notice typos or want to change pictures after it’s been published yet I do not want to start counting from zero again.) My page is still very young so all the shares are super valuable to me…. Thanks everyone for helping me out here.

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  yamstergroup · Member · Sep 14, 2015 at 9:54 am

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  Can it probably be related to the change of the title as well? I am not sure about this but I think I have also changed the titles, hence the change in URL, maybe?

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  justjennifer · Member · Sep 14, 2015 at 10:05 am

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  Yes, changing the Title/URL of a post or page after you’ve published it will make those share numbers reset and can cause a lot of 404 Not Found errors from the Recent Posts and other widgets and search engines as well.

  You can certainly edit a post or page after the fact, but best to triple inspect and decide on at least the title/URL before you hit that Publish button.

  If you do NEED to change the Title of a post or page after you’ve published it, make sure the post/page slug remains the same. See here:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/slugs/

  Let me know if you need more help with that.