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Changing FaceBook Username / url - do you retain your likes/fans
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hi
just a quickie, anyone know off hand when you change your FB username/url do you retain or lose the likes/fans ?
cheers
dan
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many thanks Erica
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Hi Dan,
If you go through Facebook for your name change, you do not lose any of your fans. They are all transferred seamlessly. Yes, your vanity URL pointing to your page will change, but with Moz's experience, Facebook did a redirect from our old vanity URL (seomoz) to our new one (Moz), so you'll still retain any links built to your Facebook page and the resulting traffic.
Best of luck o the rebrand!
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Thanks Bex but im referring to username/url not page name of a page with a few thousand fans, so trying to find out if safe to change username/url without losing fans/likes
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If you have less than 200 fans i think you can change the username of the page (only ones) and you will retain the fans that you have. However, if you have more than 200 fans then you can ask some of your loyal ones to "suggest an edit". If they know what you want to change your page name to (if its something more appropriate) then get them to fill this in. If you get about 15 i think it is suggests in about 2 days, Facebook should ask you if you want to change your name.
I have never tried this myself, however, i have heard of other who have said its worked. All "likers" kept. Remember If anyone is searching for you with your old name they won't find you once you have changed it as Facebook doesn't redirect. Hope this helps.
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