I have another post on combining and merging Facebook pages here–with videos–but as you know, Facebook changes things A LOT, so rather than confuse you or waste your time with outdated information, I thought I’d make a new post about this.
So now, if you have multiple Facebook pages for your organizations–you ca merge the two (or three or four) pages!!
Keep in mind, this is for merging two PAGES. If you have a profile/timeline or a group, these instructions aren’t for you. There is currently no way to convert a group into a page, but you CAN now convert your Facebook profile into a page!
There are TWO ways to merge your pages. Let’s start with the first and simplest one. If this does NOT work for you, just go to option 2!
If your pages meet the right criteria–they were both created by you, they have the same name, and at least one is a “place” page, then you may be able to have Facebook automatically merge your pages for you with one click of a button!
To see if you can, go to your page (you must be a page admin to do this) and click on “edit page” in the upper right corner.
Then click on “resources” on the left column. If you see “Merge duplicate pages” as an option, then you’re golden! Just follow the instructions there to merge your pages (it will give you a list of pages that are eligible to merge).
If you DON’T have this option, or the pages it lists are not the ones you want to merge, don’t worry. There is another way!
Method 2 for Merging Facebook Pages
The first thing you need to do for option 2 is collect the URLs of your Facebook pages that you want to merge together. The FULL URL–that’s the part in the address bar, the facebook.com/ part as well as everything that comes after the /.
Open up a word document or something and copy and paste the URL of the page you want to KEEP, first. Make SURE you keep that straight! You’re going to have to tell Facebook “this is the page I want to keep, and these are the page(s) I want to merge into that page.” (I’m going to refer to this as your “keeper” page)
(I recommend copying and pasting this way. You could write it down on a piece of paper, but these URLs are sometimes kind of long, and you don’t want to get one letter wrong and mess it up)
Next, copy the URLs of the pages you want to merge into the main one. Keep those somewhere, too.
REALLY IMPORTANT!!!
Make SURE that you’ve gotten everything off of those pages you want to keep, such as photos, videos, testimonials, posts, etc. The ONLY thing that will be saved from these pages will be your fans–they will merge and combine with the fans of your “keeper” page. Everything else will disappear and you cannot get it back.
How to do it
Now you need to send a request to Facebook to merge your pages. You must do this while you are logged into the account that is an admin on your “keeper” page. (NOTE: If you do NOT have a personal Facebook account–only a business account that only manages your pages–this WILL NOT WORK. You have to be logged in as a real person on Facebook with a personal account)
They have made this MUCH easier, as you know if you watched my old tutorial on this subject! Just go to this URL to submit the request to merge your Facebook pages. Just choose (from the drop down menu) your “keeper” page, and then the others you want to merge into it. They call these “inauthentic” pages, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that. It can mean “extra” pages, or “pages I created by mistake” or “pages that an old volunteer created” or whatever works for you!
Just fill out your form and hit Submit. it can take a couple of hours to a couple of days to get a response. (please post back here and tell us how long it took you to get a response so people will have an idea!)
Keep in mind that if you are merging 3 pages, and each had 500 fans, you won’t necessarily get 1500 fans once it’s all said and done, because some people may have been fans of all 3 pages. But all your fans WILL combine to be fans of your one “keeper” page.
Emily Garman is COO of 
Even Rahul’s link isn’ working for me. Anyone had any luck recently?
Dear Emily,
I can’t seem to merge my pages in any way, the “Merge” button is unavailable (probably because the two pages have slightly different names “Brand Name / Brand Name Official”) and I can’t find any mean to contact facebook anywhere.
Both pages have 4 admins who are exactly the same for each one, likes are 5k and 7k and we are the legal holders of the brand name.
Could you help me out? This is so frustrating:(
Thank you very much, I wish you a nice day.
Best,
Francesca
I haven’t been able to find another one, Michele–as soon as I do, I’ll post it here!
Try that link again–it seems to be working now: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/?id=238908726149664
This URL is working now: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/?id=238908726149664
Try this link: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/?id=238908726149664 It seems to be working now.
Try this one: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/?id=238908726149664
Thank you sooooooo much for posting this. Method 2 worked for me within two days. Finally!!!
Hi Emily, is there some new link where to submit an appeal to FB team to merge 2 fan pages. All the previous link dont work
Damir, there is no other link yet that i know of. I don’t know why they keep shutting down the other links! As soon as I hear of one I will post it. Sorry!
Tnx Emily, hoping they will enable this options once more.
Hi Emily, any news about merging issue?
Hi Emily! I have two pages that i want to merge! The first one that i want to keep has 5.090 likes. The second one that i don’t want to keep has 5.070 likes (it was a profile before). My problem is that the merge button appears in the second one that i don’t want to keep! I’m trying to find a way to contact Facebook..but i can’t
can you help me please with that?
Hi Christina,
unfortunately there really is NO way to contact Facebook. If you merge your pages, you WILL merge all your fans, but you’re right–only the content on one page will remain, and it sounds like that is not the one you want to keep. However, it may be that this is the only option you have, unless you just want to delete the one page that you don’t want to keep–but that means losing all those fans, too. Facebook has taken the other method for merging pages offline, at least for now–so until they revive that (if ever) then you are pretty stuck. I’m sorry!
Hi Damir, unfortunately they have not put the page back online that allows you to merge…I’ll update here if they do!
It seems this link is working for me
https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/?id=238908726149664
Give it a try
hi there everyone ! i am “golden” because i see the “Merge duplicate pages” as an option but when i click on it and send the request to merge my two pages it wont work. i have one week that i try to do it, i tried every day to merge but it wont work. how its possible ??
Esli – I am having the same problem. I have tried over and over to merge two pages, one that I created and one un-authorized one that a staff member “helpfully” created a few years ago and just came to my attention, but it does not merge. I am admin on both pages, and am at a loss as to what the problem is.
Can’t access the link
The link SHOULD work, but I have had reports of people outside the USA not being able to access it. So are you in the USA?
the merge of 2 pages with different names it is not working, any news, suggestions?
the link is working IF you are from the US. i had the same problem, wanted to merge 2 FB pages with different names and couldnt do it from within my FB. the link seemed to have dissapeared or not being functional anymore, however it still is. I then went on the internet again using a proxy server pretending i am from the USA (i am really located in mexico right now), and suddenty it worked! link is therefore workingt for people in the usa.
i already did the reaquest as per that form and already received email from facebook that the merge was authroized and done, took like 3 hours. i fact it is merging as wel speak and almost completed.
hope this helps cheers
plz any1 merge my pages with method 2 link not work fr me
Kamal, I have heard from several other users that option 2 does not work if you are outside of the US. If you can find someone in the USA to be an admin on your pages, they may be able to access those links and merge your pages. Sorry!
Please Emily check your e-mail because am waiting for your respond… I so much want to merge my newly turned pages from facebook profile into one….
I have managed to turn my facebook profiles into pages “Both of them” I know you will be wondering why “Both”? Well I used to play pro football/soccer before injuries forced me to quite, I have facebook profile with the normal posts and so on, Later I continued my childhood hobby which is singing and suddenly the singing started moving so good than I expected and I have a lot of friends from both profiles but I have managed to turn them into pages…. Now I cannot merge the two to become one…. No option like merge…. I have reeally tried to do this, so Emily I need your help or anyone who think he can help me is highly welcome…
All the best and waiting for respond. Thanks
How long does it take to work?
Bryan–it shouldn’t take any time at all to merge the pages. You should see the results instantly.
I’ve done the link numerously and it keeps telling me it’s going to happen shortly, which didn’t after more than one day – am I just impatient? I’m in Canada.
and I do have the “golden” button but it didn’t work. I have the same problem as Esli and Patricia Hager…
I am facing a problem in merging duplicate page into one, please help me
I can’t do much for you if you don’t provide me with some information…
I am not sure what to think about this; I think it might be a bug. Usually, if it’s going to merge your pages, it does it immediately–it would never even take a day. So this page is where you go to report a bug with a Facebook page.
Is there a working link to merge several pages on Facebook? I work in Belgium. We have 4 differents pages and would have 1 facebookpage. Thanks!!
Emily hi,
The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed.
This is the FB page that i get (or don’t get to put it better), when i click on your “Just go to this URL to submit the request to merge your Facebook pages.”
Any ideas why is that?
emily
link which combine of two pages is not working
plz help i want to merge fans .
Unfortunately, it seems (from what I have heard from other people not in the US) that this link only works for people inside the US–and I don’t know of any others.
Miha–it may be that you are not inside the USA. It seems to only work if you are in the USA.
It seems that that link only works for people in the USA. I don’t know of any other pages that work for people outside the US, I’m sorry!
its not working showing that it is broken or expired.
Hi Emily,
I am trying to migrate a profile called Cleveland APL into a page called Cleveland Animal Protective League. I have not turned the profile into a page yet, as I am afraid they won’t merge because they do not have the same name. Will this be an issue for me? Is there a solution? Thanks for your time.
Hi Lisa,
Always a pleasure to help with the great work you guys are doing at Cleveland APL! You’re right that there may be an issue with the automatic page merge because of the different names of the pages. However, you will be able to do it through the manual process (the form where you tell Facebook what pages you want to merge). So what I would do is go ahead and convert the profile into a page, and then I would make sure that you (with your same profile) are set up as an admin on the new profile-turned-page that is Cleveland APL. So once you have two pages, and you are an admin of both, then you can complete the merge request manually on the facebook form. The form to request a Facebook page merge is here (it only works for people in the USA). This should work for you! feel free to email me if you need help. Say Hi to Sharon for me!
It only works if you are inside the USA, unfortunately.
Vicky, if you are not in the USA this link will not work for you. Sorry!
I didn’t find the link merge two pages and other link given in the post isn’t working as well
Thank you for the info you provided on this topic. I have just had my two pages merged
It was soooooooo easy. I used the first steps. Thanks once again.
Great news, Matt! Thanks!
Awesome, Matt! Thanks for letting me know!
Are you in the United States? The link will only work for people located in the United States.