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Need advice separating personal page from band page on FACEBOOK

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joolein
 
Reply Wed 19 Apr, 2017 07:28 pm
Update : See images below for clarification and summary.

Hey, I'm an artist, my stage name is the same as my real name. Band page name is "Julien Kozak" . When I play shows and promote myself by telling people to visit my facebook page, I don't want them to get my personal page, but rather my band page so that they can like and follow.

Here's my problem:
I changed my personal page name to something else, so only my real friends can find me. I kept my band page name as "Julien Kozak", so that when people search Julien Kozak, my band page is the only thing that comes up related to me. The problem is that when you search "Julien Kozak", by default it searches for other people named Julien Kozak, not my band page. You have to work around it and search only "Pages" for Julien Kozak, and only then do I pop up.


What are my options here? How can I make it so that when you search Julien Kozak, my band page comes up somewhere on the list, rather than a bunch of people with my same name who aren't actually me?... Besides getting really popular of course.


Maybe these pictures simplify the explanation:

Searched my name on facebook.com and none of these are actually me. My band page isn't showing because facebook by default searches for people, not band pages.
https://s14.postimg.org/sg8mvrxjh/image.jpg

I had to click "Pages" and then search my name and I came up. Most people don't think to do this and simply cannot find my band page.
https://s14.postimg.org/65krvt099/image.jpg







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jespah
 
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Reply Thu 20 Apr, 2017 05:54 am
@joolein,
Change your professional page name to Julien Kozak Band.
joolein
 
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Reply Mon 24 Apr, 2017 02:16 pm
@jespah,
I can try that but not sure what it will do. Also, I'm not a band, I'm a single artist, so it's not exactly an accurate name. I still don't see how this will bring me up under the "people" search.
jespah
 
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Reply Mon 24 Apr, 2017 03:37 pm
@joolein,
Okay, now I understand what you're trying to do. You are trying to be higher up in the search results when someone on FB looks for your name.

And the answer is - you kind of can't. Facebook has a proprietary sorting algorithm. About the only thing I can tell you (or anyone can) is that it's based on social signals. E. g. if you have ever wondered why you're getting ads for vacations in Greece, it might be because you liked a Greek travel agency or shared a promotion for a vacation in Athens or entered a contest to win a trip to the Greek islands.

How do you increase the social signals to others? About the only way you can do so is to buy ads on Facebook.
joolein
 
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Reply Mon 24 Apr, 2017 06:34 pm
@jespah,
Hey thanks for the reply.
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Okay, now I understand what you're trying to do. You are trying to be higher up in the search results when someone on FB looks for your name.


...That's ALMOST what I'm trying to do. I'm not really trying to get higher up on the list (there's only a few results for Julien Kozak). I'm trying to just get on the list. I'm not even on it, know what I mean?

UPDATE: It looks like FB is just weird. I tried a few different computers and phones and sometimes I come up below the list of people under "pages", and sometimes I don't show up at all unless I specifically press the search under "pages" button. Maybe it's just a user preference or I dunno. So I guess there is really no solution to my problem.
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