How to Change your Facebook Profile Page to a Business Page
We were delighted to see Facebook’s newly released feature update allowing profile pages (with friends) to convert to business pages (with fans). The story of a business creating a profile, accumulating a large following of friends, and getting stuck in a pickle once they realized they needed to update to a Facebook business page is all too common.
Here are the easy steps to migrate a Facebook profile to Facebook page:
- First thing to do is backup your current profile. This is VERY IMPORTANT! Facebook will download all your wall posts, friends, pictures, events, profile info, etc. and zip it up into a large file. The process takes Facebook about 1 hour to run, depending on the wealth of data you have stored on your Facebook account. To run a backup, click on account -> settings -> download your information.

- Once you have received an email from Facebook with your .zip file of stored information, follow this link to the main migration page.
- Select your business type from the six possible options and fill out the short information prompts (company type, address, phone number) and hit “Get Started.”
- You will then be directed to your new business page. You will notice that your profile image will be imported from your previous profile but your fan total will be listed as “0”. Don’t worry, when you refresh your page, you will see the number quickly rise to your pre-existing fan/friend base.
That’s it! The important thing to note is that hardly any of your prior information will be transferred over to the new business page. Your wall will be blank, your information tab will be very bare, and you will not have any photos or albums. This is where the Facebook backup comes into play. Simply reload your images and info (from the zip file) to the appropriate tabs. Your defined Facebook url (ex. www.Facebook.com/samplepage) will remain intact through the transfer, which is huge for businesses that may be linking to the Facebook page through existing paid online advertising campaigns, blog posts, websites, etc.
**UPDATED: Please note that we have heard other people have LOST their vanity URL when changing their profile to a page. This may be a glitch that Facebook will fix, but be aware that if your profile is www.facebook.com/profile, when you switch to a page you may lose this URL.
**UPDATE 4/1/2011: Due to some technical glitches for some users, Facebook has indefinitely disabled this feature at this time. Stay tuned!
**UPDATE 4/5/2011: Facebook has addressed the technical issues and this featured has again been enabled.
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Contributed by: Keith DeVey, Social Media Manager, Milestone Internet Marketing
82 Responses to “ How to Change your Facebook Profile Page to a Business Page ”
Hi Christy,
Unfortunately most of that data cannot be reused on the business page. There is no way to get the information back up onto your new business page wall tab. At this time the zip file is mostly for your own files. The photos can be uploaded, but you must do this process manually by unzipping them and uploading them the way you upload any other photos to Facebook.
Regards,
Mike Supple
I set up a personal profile page in order to set up a business page. I am the administrator of that page. I would like to deactivate my personal page. I can’t figure out how to do this without effecting my business page. Also, I’d like to send the link to my business page in e-mails to guests, but don’t know how to capture the one that page visitors see as everytime I go on the business page (having switched to use “The Inn at Locke House” as my page), my admin box is open. Help.
Hi Lani,
You should not delete your personal profile page if it is the only admin setup on your new business page. Deleting your profile will prohibit you from accessing your business page. I would recommend updating your privacy setting on your personal page, so that others cannot find you or see personal information. As for capturing your business page url, simply log out of facebook and search for your hotel page.
-Keith
when i changed from a profile to a fan page, my friends turned to likes, but i don’t have control over any privacy settings and don’t get any wall posting feeds from any of my friends/likes. Oringinal profile page is gone. At the top left of my fan page it only has buttons for settings and logout. what happened?
Hi Sun Sports Cycle,
I am glad you were able to convert your friends into fans and make the migration to a business page. I think your issue may be centered around establishing an admin of the page. Business pages are accessed and manipulated through personal facebook profiles. So, go to your new business page and click on the top right link “see all” (under the edit page button and next to the test that says “Admins”. Once on the admin page, type in the email address of your personal facebook profile and punch in the password you use to login to the business page.
Now, when you login to your personal facebook profile, you should be set up as an admin of the page and have the ability to control privacy settings, post to the wall, etc.
The oringinal personal profile account that was switched is gone. So I tried what you suggested and added my personal profile as an administrator. Then I could use the fan page as a page (whatever that means) but still could only change personal privacy settings not settings for the fan page. Is there no way to get news feeds from my “likes” that used to be friends before I changed from a profile to a fan page?
Hi Sun Sports Cycle. Becuase you are logged in as your personal profile when you access the new business page you have set up, you will see the newsfeed of all your friends that are associated with your personal profile. To view the newsfeed of your business page fans is simple. Once you login to facebook with your personal profile, click the top right navigation button “account” and select “use facebook as page”. Once you see your business page as an option, instead of clicking on the name of the page, click the “switch” button. Now you are using facebook as the business page. You will be able to see the newsfeed from your fans. I know it’s complicated, but as you play around with it, you will start to make sense of it all.
I converted my profile to a business page, I had 900 frineds before conversion, but after the convertion was done, the page has the same number of fans (900) for only 2 days and after that it got total number of ZERO fan .. so I just want to know is there any mistake I did while the conversion? Also how could I get my fans back if there is anyway for that.
Knowing that I didn’t upload my info or wall posts before conversion because I didn’t need them. Also I didn’t upload friends because I know they will be converted to fans automatically.
Waiting for your kind reply
Thanks
Hello Pinky Rose,
That is very strange that your 900 friends got converted to fans for two days and then disappeared. That sounds like some sort of glitch or bug in facebook’s migration tool. It doesn’t sound like you have done anything wrong in the process, considering your fans were originally transferred. If I were in your shoes, I would contact facebook through an email or their Facebook “Known Issues” page dedicated to strange bugs (https://www.facebook.com/KnownIssues). In fact, an issue they posted on 8/1 talks about fans mysteriously disappearing from pages. Sounds like your issue!
Please Help!
All of a sudden, when I log into Facebook, the first thing I see is the four pages I’ve created with only the Settings and Logout buttons on the top right corner, but my personal profile is GONE! My friends told me that they can no longer access my profile as well, it’s like I’ve deactivated my account…The thing is: I DIDN’T! Any ideas how can I fix this?
Thanks
Hi K.M. it sounds like you somehow deactivated your personal facebook profile, which is why you can’t edit your facebook pages. Here is a page that explains how to reactivate your personal profile: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=14429 Hope that helps!
Keith
I have just the same problem as K.M & am sure that i did not deactivate my account… this thing suddenly happened
K.M… did u find out any solution?
guys… any help?
Hi Zaid. One thing to keep in mind is that when you switch your facebook profile to a business page, that pre-existing profile is now gone and turned into a business page. So if you had profile named Keith Hotel, it would now be Keith Hotel the business page and Keith Hotel profile would be gone.
If you had two facebook profiles to begin with [for example, Keith Hotel profile and Keith Smith (the human being)], maybe you were logged into facebook with the Keith Smith account when you performed the transfer, thus deleting your personal human being account? That is the only thing I can think happened.
Keith
I converted my personal page into a fan page and none of my confirmed friends transfered into “likes” I had over 2400+ friends. I downloaded the backup files from my page before I converted it. Did I do something wrong? Is there a way I can get my friends to likes? Please let me know what I can do or what happened.
Hi – it looks like your 2400+ friends have been converted to fans at this point. When you do the conversion, it can take up to several hours for Facebook to convert your friends to fans. Not sure why they have this delay, but we’ve seen it several times. Eventually the friends do all get converted.
Hi Revail Clothing,
How long diid it take that your friends became likes? Cause mine doesn’t do it either after 10 hours, and saw some more reports at help discussions of Facebook.
i have recently migrated my profile to a page ,,, though now i have no fans ???? facebook has not converted my connections to my new page ??? also when i downloaded all my information ,, i lost all my personal videos ?? i did have 5000 friends and since the migration i have none ??? why is this ???? i have waited 24hrs and still not one friend has been converted into a fan ??????? !!!!!!!!!
What if none of the friends are transferred over after an hour? Is there still hope that they will all be converted to likes? Is that normal?
Hi Janice, Lenny, and Rianne,
It looks like facebook may be expereincing a lull in transfering the friends over to fans. We have not had any issues with the process in our attempts, but this recent influx in responses to this blog post has us thinking there may be some backup at facebook in converting these requests. Please let us know if you still don’t have your fans converted over after a couple days and we can investigate this further.
Keith
Our facebook account was created before business profiles were available. We created a fan page under the personal profile to represent the business. How can I convert that page to a business page without losing the personal profile? Also, we have a vanity URL for that page and 1500 likes that we don’t want to lose.
Hi Peggy, you should be able to follow the above steps to migrate your facebook profile to a page. Unfortunately you can’t keep your profile and also create a new facebook page with all the same fans. Once you swap over to a page, your profile will disappear. As for keeping your vanity URL and fan count in the migration, we have successfully migrated both in the past, but we have seen some posts lately that claim the vanity url sometimes doesn’t come with the migration.
Keith
Hi,
I have a business page on facebook. I need to change the password of the business page in order for the other admins to add new admins but I dont get the option of account setting on the top right corner.
Any suggestions?
Hey,
I just did what you described above. I received the zip with my accountfile and went on with creating my businessaccount. Here it went totally wrong…All of a sudden my personal account was blocked. I had to enter facebook from the same pc as before which I did. (as if I have any more) So they asked me to upload a foto from an ID. I did but then this was not accepted for unknown reasson.
So here I am with a personal account which I can’t enter, I can’t contact facebook for help and I can’t make a businessaccount. I tried to make a new account mut this is also not accepted because my emailadres is alreday in use.
Something else…It is pretty stupid that you can’t use your business email to make an account such as; info@……
If anyone has an idea what to do please let me know. this is fustrating..!!
Tony – Business pages don’t actually have unique passwords. There will be a password for your personal facebook account. Once you log in to that account you can then access your business page. From the business page admin tool, you can set up additional facebook users that will be able to access and control the page. To set up a new admin, you would type in the facebook log in email address of the user you wish to add and when you are prompted for a password, enter your personal profile password.
Alexander – I am not too sure what happened in your scenario. It sounds like something very strange happened with your profile account. Did you have two profile accounts before starting the migration (for example an Alexander Smith profile and an Alexander Shoe Company profile). It is important to note that if you just had one account (Alexander Shoe Company profile), then that was changed to a business account and then your personal account would have been deleted. That is all I can think that happened. If you are having a hard time accessing your previous personal account, I would follow this link to recover your password and log in info: https://www.facebook.com/recover.php
Keith
Keith – you seem to be more an expert on this than Facebook. So I am trying to know if:
1) have they fixed the problem of when you change a profile page to a “page” do you lose your vanity url that was the profile one? Was that what you mentioned got fixed? So if I was to switch my profile to a page, it allows me to keep my url from the profile that now becomes a page?
2) if you are the obvious administrator of your profile page and you sign in as the profile owner when you sign in which then allows you from a profile page to administrate any fan “page” – how does it work when your profile page becomes a fan page? Do you still sign in as normal? How do you avoid getting locked out of being able to administrate your new fan page when your normal profile signing in is not there any longer? I understand how to assign other admins to a fan page when one is established, but when you first transfer a profile to a page, the admin is yourself. So how do you then assign another admin (like the new profile page I set up which is separate then this profile one).
This blog is very helpful! As Facebook certainly doesn’t give much actual help to these type of questions. THANK YOU!
Hi Dan,
thanks for the kind words. Please see my answers below:
A) When we have switched profile pages to business pages, the unique URL has migrated over as well. We have heard of instances where the URL does not come through, but do not understand why that is?
B) When you switch over your profile page to a business page, the pre-existing profile account and login will disappear. Before you make the transition, be sure to create a personal facebook account (for example Dan ____.) This way, when you log in to your old account and switch it over to a business page, you can then take the next step of giving the Dan ___ profile admin access to the new page you created. To give admin access, go to the wall of your new business page. At the top right of this page you will see a button that says “edit page”, below that button you will see text that says “admins” and “See all”. Click on “See all” and type in the email address associated with the Dan ____ facebook profile you created.
Hope that helps.
Keith
When i turned my profile to a buisness page i got blocked form facebook , i used this feature in another 3 accounts and same result .. is there something wrong ?
-> Temporary blocked account give id !
what id should i give when i changed everything for creating into a page?
plz change my acaunt
Hello Prasenjit,
If you are interested in having us assist with any social marketing activities, please contact our sales department: sales@milestoneinternet.com.
Thanks,
Mike Supple
i need your help
i think my account is hacked and the hacker converted it to a business page and now i have the password but i don’t want this type of account i want to return back to my normal profile friends wall messages groups and other
so can i return back to my profile again ??
i want to return back to my normal profile
is it possible ??
Hello Michael,
Unfortunately you can’t switch your business page to a profile page. There is even a warning when you do the original migration that your facebook profile will be lost. I think your only option is to create a brand new profile and then message the fans of your business page to come to your new profile you have set up. I know that is not the answer you wanted to hear, but hopefully you are able to attract your fans to the new profile.
I keep on getting this message:
“Our automated system has detected that the name is not same or similar to your profile name. Please keep it same or similar and retry.”
only the first name is missing, and i don’t realize why i should keep both names also for my page, coz only my surname is my artist name… any suggestions to solve this problem?
Hi Yan,
I would recommend logging into your personal profile and updating your name to appear exactly how you would like it to appear once you migrate the profile into a business page. To change your name in your personal profile,
1. Click on the down arrow in the top right corner of facebook and select Account settings
2. Click “edit” nest to your name
3. Change your First, Last, and Display name
The name change may take 24 hours to update. Once updated, try merging the page over.
I’m having the same issue as Yann. Facebook forced me to change my name (I couldn’t access Facebook unless I did) to a real name from my company’s name. Now when I try to convert my profile to a page, I get the same error message: “Our automated system has detected that the name is not same or similar to your profile name. Please keep it same or similar and retry.”
Keith you suggestion doesn’t work, as I get another error message that says: “Sorry! You’ve updated your name the maximum number of times allowed and your name can’t be changed again.”
Does anyone have any other suggestions?
Hi Jennifer,
That’s too bad you changed your profile name the maximum number of times. When you do change the profile to a business page, it is mandatory that the new page have the same name. Since you can’t change your profile name any more, you will have to migrate to the business page with that name. If you have under 100 friends, you can then change the name of your business page once it is created. If you have over 100 friends, then you will be stuck with the name you have.
If you have over 100 friends, I would recommend starting a business page from scratch with the official name you would like to market. Then you can message and leave wall posts for your current friends of your profile page to head over to your new business page.
Good luck!
It is too bad Facebook forced me to change my name – I only changed it that one time. To migrate it to a business page of the same name would mean the page now be my personal first and last name instead of the companies name — that will not work, obviously. I have 5,000 friends. If I start from scratch, I loose all 5,000 friends.
This is Facebook’s error and there should be a way to contact them to fix it. Sadly, I think there is not.
Appreciate your trying to help!
عندي مشكله ان حسابي على الفيس بوك تحول الى صفحه اعلان يعني لما ادخل على حسابي تظهر صفحه الاعلان على الفيس بوك وبأعلى الصفحه تسجيل الخروج والاعدادات فقط ,كيف يمكنني استعاده حسابي الشخصي القديم وهل هذه المشكله تعني انه تم اختراق حسابي ,,,,, ارجو المساعده
Has anyone been able to convert their Facebook page back to a profile? I did mine on accident.
Facebook says this: http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=205056142869433
Can I convert my newly created Page back to a profile (timeline)?
If you have accidentally converted your profile (timeline) to a business Page, you can submit a request for a reversal. Please keep in mind that it is a violation of Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities to maintain a profile (timeline) for anything other than an individual person. If you wish to submit an appeal, you can do so here.
I need a hand I keep getting the message when trying to migrate my profile..which I was using as a business to a business page.
Our automated system has detected that the name “Fast Eddie…..l” is not same or similar to your profile name “Matt Good….”. Please keep it same or similar and retry.
Can you help please.
Thanks
j
I am trying to change to a page and even though i am NOT CHANGING the name at all it is still saying “Our automated system has detected that the name is not same or similar to your profile name. Please keep it same or similar and retry.”
Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks
I am having the same problem as Joe above. I am trying to convert to a fan page with the EXACT same name as my current profile page and get this message: Our automated system has detected that the name is not same or similar to your profile name . Please keep it same or similar and retry.
I am hesitant to try renaming my profile first as I have over 4,000 friends and would hate to be locked out.
Also, once I convert, can I go back and create a personal page again and limit it to friends and family?
Thanks for your great advice!
I am trying to convert my account to a fan page with the EXACT same name as my current profile page and get this message: Our automated system has detected that the name is not same or similar to your profile name . Please keep it same or similar and retry. what shall i do ??
I am hesitant to try renaming my profile first as I have over 3,000 friends and would hate to be locked out.
Also, once I convert, can I go back and create a personal page again and limit it to friends and family?
Thanks for your great advice!
Me too. I am having the same problem as people above
All the time I get message: “Our automated system has detected that the name is not same or similar to your profile name . Please keep it same or similar and retry.”
I have 58 friends. I just wanted to check how migration system works. At the moment migration is not working as it should
Same issue as above… using exact same name and yet the automated message says is not similar or same.
Our automated system has detected that the name is not same or similar to your profile name . Please keep it same or similar and retry.
i want send my friends to my fans page !! plz help me !! how to make it works ~!!!!!!
thanks waiting ur reply
Same problem as Lee and Joe – and i can\\\’t figure out how to get in contact with facebook to alert them to the problem, as clearly something has gone wrong! anyone know how to contact them directly?
I have 4999 friends and same error message appears when i try to convert. i AM using MY profile name and yet…i get “Our automated system has detected that the name is not same or similar to your profile name . Please keep it same or similar and retry.” HELP!!!!!!
i keep getting this message:
Our automated system has detected that the name is not same or similar to your profile name . Please keep it same or similar and retry.
looks like this is a common problem, especially from recent posts … anyone found a solution yet? many thanks!
I am also getting this message–“Our automated system has detected that the name is not same or similar to your profile name . Please keep it same or similar and retry.”– although I am converting the profile to a page with the EXACT SAME NAME! This is the name that appears on its own without my typing it in. I just went through the trouble of deleting friends to less than 100 so I can convert the page and then change the name to the business name, but alas, it doesn’t work. There is NO ONE to call at facebook; this is the ultimate in frustration with no resolution!
Hello all. From the current influx of comments, it seems as though the Facebook migration tool may be having an issue this week. Because this is an issue Facebook must address, we currently don’t have an answer. I assume Facebook is well aware of the problem and is currently creating a fix, but in the mean time, please feel free to leave any solutions you may have found for this issue.
Thanks!
Hi there. You have mentioned above about the option of uploading photos from the zip files downloaded if wanted.
I wanted to ask you if I unzip the photos from the download files and upload them. will those photos have the Comments it once did? Please fill me in soon. Thankyou
Hi Shraf,
Once you unzip the file Facebook puts together for you, you will see that only the raw files of the images are transferred over. The comments left on the original images will be lost in the transition.
Keith
hi Keith , Please Keith tell me why this msg
Our automated system has detected that the name is not same or similar to your profile name . Please keep it same or similar and retry.
and if i change the name its say
” For your security, you need to complete this process from a computer you’ve used for browsing Facebook in the past. If this isn’t possible, contact customer support.”
i want move my account to my fans page , i did that 1 time before but now i cant why !!!
( Please help me Keith
Thank you
We have a large personal timeline and a business page currently….we want to get rid of the time line but my question is can you migrate your timeline to an EXISTING business page? I can see how to do this and set up a new page, but thought I would see if there was any info on how I can transfer to an existing page before I go through the hassel of redoing everything.
Thanks
Hi, thank you for this page! We have a ‘fake’ profile admin page and a Business Page. The admin page has the URL we would like (not the Business page). If we switch I am unsure which URL would be the default. Also, my boss wants control over when it switches so he can alert people, (ha) so is it immediate or take up to a week. I used the good URL on that profile page and so can’t use it for the other Page, and that is the only name my boss wants used.
Thanks for any help!
Is it wise to make the switch from profile to a page for a musician? I see there seem to be glitches. Is Facebook migration working now? Don’t want to lose connection with 5000 people. Should we wait?
Hi i converted my timeline into page 1 hour ago before I made this post.ive downloaded what they wanted me to download.but when I converted my timeline, there are 0 likes, nothing at all,i refreshed it several times but it’s not adding anything at all. i cant even upload the photos i downloaded. please help me.what should i do?
It looks like your friends have successfully been converted to fans at this point. Still haven’t seen an exact pattern to the length of time it takes to complete a conversion, but does seem that they are still working – it just may take several hours.
I’ve converted to businees page. I downloaded all the friends list and wall. How do i add all the friends back to facebook?
Hi, I have a band and trying to change from my personal page to a fan page with name change. from Paula Gallo to Paula G Reality as first, middie and Last names. Here is the message I get. What should I do?
“Your name change request has been rejected by our automated approval system.”
Two months ago I converted my profile to a page by mistake.
Submited several times my request for a reversal using the page Profile to Business Page Migration Appeal.
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact_us.php?id=189265951117017
I have received neither answer, nor was my page restored.
What can I do?
Hi
The same like Tony:
” For your security, you need to complete this process from a computer you’ve used for browsing Facebook in the past. If this isn’t possible, contact customer support.”
How can i solve d it?
Paula – We have seen issues with Facebook rejecting names as well. I would try punching in a couple different name options and see if Facebook allows for one. If you currently have under 100 friends on your profile, you will be able to change the name once changed to a business page.
Art – We have never tried converting a page back to a profile before, so unfortunatley we can’t provide any tips. Try sending in the appeal again and see if you get a response.
Ryszard – Sounds like you tried your migration through a computer you don’t usually use. When facebook identifies multiple IP addresses logging into the same acccount, facebook will sometimes post security questions to assure noone has hacked into your account. Keep in mind that name change requests seem to be a very tricky problem that facebook has not found a good solution for. You may have to keep sending in requests or create a new fan page from scratch
I did the steps listed to convert to a buisness page. Last night a few people saw it and liked it. Today anyone that trys to find us can’t. What am I missing?
I converted my profile to the business page, but now non-fans cannot find my listing in the Facebook search box!
How can people find me if my business page is not listed???
What happened?
I’m converting a personal page to a business page for a friend–the friends converted over to “likes” however I am not seeing the icons in the upper right for new fans or comment NOR am I seeing the newsfeed or “Home” feature on the new business page. Very frustrating. It’s been 35 hours since the conversion and it took 24 hours for the “likes” to show up. Any sugggestions?
I am also getting this message–“Our automated system has detected that the name is not same or similar to your profile name . Please keep it same or similar and retry.”– although I am converting the profile to a page with the EXACT SAME NAME! This is the name that appears on its own without my typing it in. I just went through the trouble of deleting friends to less than 100 so I can convert the page and then change the name to the business name, but alas, it doesn’t work. There is NO ONE to call at facebook; this is the ultimate in frustration with no resolution.
Nancy – It sounds like you need to select the “use facebook as a page” option. Once you are on your newly converted page, you will see the “edit page” button to the top right. Under that button is the list of admins of the page. And under the admins there will be a link that says “Use Facebook as (Business Name). Select that option. Then in the top left corner of the page you will see new fans added, and if you click on the facebook logo to the left of those icons, you will see your news feed for the brand page.
Hasankothok – I am not quite sure why you are seeing the errors you are seeing with the name conversion. Again, we dont work at Facebook, but simply go through the migration process often with the clients we work with. If you are not able to complete the conversion at all, a final plan may be to create a business page from scratch and actively network on your personal profile that has 100 friends and let them know to head over to your business page where you will be making constant updates.
Thanks,
Keith
Roughly, how long (time wise) does the conversion process (for friends to convert to likes…and any wall posts) from profile to page usually take?
Marni – We have seen the conversion sometimes take a full day to convert all the fans over. Your wall posts and images will not be pulled over, which is why we advise that you perform the Facebook backup that will save all that information to a zip file for you. You can then re-upload the images and start filling your blank wall with new posts.
Keith
Hi,
We’ve set up a few events using a personal profile that we wish to migrate across to a company page, what will happen to these events after migration?
Thanks
jT
Justin – We have not tried migrating events over, but I would strongly bet that those events would be lost in the migration. If you have a bunch of attendees to the events, you may want to hold off on the migration until the event is over.
Keith
Hi! We have a personal business profile and a fan page! We’ve been advertising everyone from our personal profile to become our fan on our other page so that we can shut the personal profile down. However, we’d like to use the URL from the personal page on our fan page. After changing the username on the personal profile (in hopes that it would be available) before deactivating it, it seems as though we still cannot use that username/URL on our business page. What can we do to transfer the URL/username over to our page? If we were to do this other process of converting our personal profile into a business page- i don’t know if that would work either, as we already have a business page with our brand name as the username…so that doesn’t seem like an option. Help?
** Why doesn’t Facebook have ANY customer service available??
Thanks!
hi
recently i had migrated from personal to fans page. i got everything in correct. but i could not see my page name in facebook search. please help me to sort this problem.
Hi Divesh, I would wait a couple days and see if your page is showing up in search then. Sometimes Facebook takes a little time to crawl the newly created accounts. Sounds like you did everything correct though, so I wouldn’t worry.
Hi Keith,
This is an excellent post thank you. I’ll be trying it later with my celiac-disese diet account. I have started asking friends to like my new fanpage but the pick-up is slow, this looks like the answer.
I notice you have not turned this article into a fan page, it would be useful. I couldn’t find this information on fb search except in Bing results at the bottom of the results page. Just thought I’d say ![]()
Thanks again, Mark S
Hi there,
I converted my Profile to a Business Page a while ago. And my Profile page disappeared of course.
That meant that, the ONLY way to get “Likes” is through ad campaigns, or, logging into another Profile and asking Friends to Like my page, etc.
And, of course, I can no longer even SEARCH for anything from my Business page, including Apps, which is very frustrating.
I regret doing this; I want a Profile that is specific to this Business Page.
Do I start all over again?
Must I use a different email address than the one used for the Business Page?
Thanks so much!! Great info on this post.
I think a lot of people are missing a point here:
You need 2 separate profiles on facebook BEFORE you convert a personal profile to a business page.
Make the 2 profiles friends with each other. Convert the profile1 to a page DO NOT LOG OUT go to friends/likes list and choose profile2, select make admin
add –
log out .
Log into profile 2
click the little white arrow next to the home button and chose your page
(sorry I broke the comment up again keith)
facebook wrote here : http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=116067818477568#How-do-I-convert-my-personal-account-to-a-Facebook-Page?
“We’ll also make your account’s username the Facebook web address for your Page”
I have my original profile as profile-1. I have just converted my profile-2 to a business page. but still my profile-2 webaddress hasnt transferred to the current page. Friends of profile-2 has now changed to fans(i.e. likes), but I am not seeing the names of these “likes”.
how much time it will take to get the old profile-2 URL for current business page?
when will i be able to see the names of my fans(friends)?



May 2nd, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Once the files are in the zip file and the profile is successfully converted to a page, how do you upload the files back to the wall and tabs?