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Pull page fans from a URL > Facebook page

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Hello,

I would like to create a Facebook page that corresponds to my professional activity. However, while trying to install a "Like" button on my professional site, I discovered that there are already hundreds of "fans" linked to this URL. I don't know what this refers to or where I can find them. I would like to merge this URL with my future page so that site fans become page fans...

I hope you can understand me!

Thank you very much for your help

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    mops94 Posted messages 90 Status Member 93
     
    I think (in fact I’m 99.99% sure) that it isn’t possible to “merge,” because people who clicked on “Like” (or liked via a feature or equivalent) to target the site cannot, from Facebook’s point of view, implicitly have clicked “Like” on a page, especially if the page is new.

    This is a confusion issue between the like box tied to a page and a Like button where you define (or not) a target URL (here, what probably happened is that the target page was the site’s URL) — that explains why the site has “fans” (in reality, they aren’t really) and not the page (especially since it hadn’t been created yet).

    The best way is to create the page, and put a big like box on the site, created from that page: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-box-for-pages

    If you want EVERYTHING to point to the FB page, you need to remove from the site the old Like buttons, then recreate new ones that point to the page (and not to the site’s pages) from this page https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button

    => you’ll note the subtlety: there is a “URL to Like” field which, if not filled, by default (with XFBML) associates the page where the button is, i.e. a page on the site. If you put the site’s URL (domain name), that will not add fans to the page, but will increase the count of those who like the site.

    The important thing is that the Like button has nothing to do with the like box. In the system’s logic, you Like (with the button) a Web page or an entire site (if you’ve changed the default URL as explained just above). Whereas with a like box, you Like the Facebook Page => you become a Fan.

    This may seem a bit confusing, sorry, I hope it’s clear...
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