Merging Duplicate Facebook Pages

On Facebook there are a huge amount of business pages and lots of these are set up by mistake and are gaining likes that your page should be getting, thankfully, Facebook does allow you merge duplicate pages for the same business. However to be able to merge pages they must represent the same thing and have a similar page name. First you may need to claim one of these page and how you claim them can be seen in a previous blog by John called, “Claiming a Facebook page”. Ones you claim this extra page you can then merge it to your official page. However, you can only merge the page with fewer likes into the one with more likes. Merging pages is actually quite easy to do.

Firstly:


1. Make sure you're using Facebook as yourself and not as your business page. Go to the page with fewer likes.


2. On top of the screen, click Edit Page


3. Select Update Info.


4. From the left sidebar, select Resources.


5. Click the merge duplicate pages link.


6. Check the box next to the Page you want to merge with. If you're merging pages with a location, they must have the same address information. Others wise you may lose all your “check-ins”

Merging Pages combines all your likes and check-ins, but unfortunately all other content like the page posts of the merging pages, photos and the username will be permanently deleted from the page. Thankfully assuming your official page has more likes than the page you are merging it with, it will keep all its contents and remain unchanged, except for the addition of likes and check-ins that were merged from the Page with fewer likes.


Then the page with fewer likes will be removed from Facebook and you will not be able to unmerge it. This will allow you cut out pages that are gaining likes that your official page should be getting.


I hope this is will come in helpful when you’re merging pages.

Until next time,
Andrew