Merged Facebook page not indexed by Google
First-time poster here. I've used this forum as a knowledge resource for years, so I'm sure someone here will be able to point me in the right direction. I have two questions about my company's Facebook page:
- We just merged our two separate company Facebook pages last week on Friday (one week ago today). The page that we essentially got rid of was facebook.com/vmsicharge (not a very good URL, don't know why someone picked it to begin with). We merged it into the page we WANT to use going forward: facebook.com/getvms . The 'vmsicharge' page was ranking page 1 of Google when you searched our full company name "Velocity Merchant Services." After the merge, we've lost that position. What's worse is that even though the '/getvms' FB was created several years ago, it does not show up in Google's indexes. I went through several guides and made sure the page is not viewable by Admin only and that there are no country or age restrictions. If you search /vmsicharge today, we still show up in Google search results but the links are all broken when clicked. What can I do to help get the /getvms page picked up by Google? I understand we may have lost P1 ranking, but at least we'd be searchable!
- The second part of this question is: the old page's NAME was actually our full company name "Velocity Merchant Services." The new page uses our acronym VMS. I was considering requesting a Name Change through Facebook from VMS to either Velocity Merchant Services (VMS) or just Velocity Merchant Services. What do you think: should I request a name change so that the page gets picked up in Google for the full business name search? Or should we stick with just VMS and hope for the best because a Title Tag change hurts SEO? This choice doesn't change the fact of (Q1) the FB page is not indexed by Google, so first thing's first.
- Lorraine
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