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Hi,

Hoping for some technical advice. Through a comedy of errors over the years, our local rugby club has ended up with three different Facebook Pages. One is the ‘official’ one, another was made by an old coach, and a third is an ‘unofficial’ fan page that we now have admin access to.

It’s all a bit of a mess and is confusing for our members. I want to combine all of them into the one, single, official page. I’ve heard you can merge pages, but I’m not sure if you can do more than two at once. Can I somehow merge all three into one? And what happens to the followers and all the old photos on the pages we get rid of? Any guidance would be fantastic.

[Jeff Bullas]

Good on you for sorting out that digital mess.

Short Answer: Yes, you can merge them, but you must do it in sequence by merging only two pages at a time. Be warned: while you keep the followers, all content formats like photos and posts from the pages you merge are permanently deleted.

The system is designed to consolidate an audience, not to combine the content archives of different pages.

The process requires you to merge only two pages at a time, so for your situation, you would first merge one of the duplicate pages into your main official one. After that merge is complete, you would then repeat the process to merge the third page into the main one. The most critical part for you to understand is what happens to your content formats. All of the text posts, image files, and video uploads on the pages you choose to merge—the ones that will be deleted—are lost forever, so you must download any important photos or records before you start. The only things that transfer over are the followers and check-ins, which are combined with your main page’s audience. To even be eligible, Facebook requires all pages to have very similar names and to represent the same entity, so you may need to edit the page names to match before the system will allow the merge.

Cheers,
Jeff

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