If you have tried to change the name of your Facebook page and it was denied there are a few ways you can successfully change the name.
Now that you have gone though the time and expense to build a following on Facebook you don’t want to lose them just because you have changed the name of your business.
Appeal Page Name Change Request
The simplest thing to do is to request an appeal. However, often this will NOT work. The reviewing team will likely request you provide them with support documentation which proves you have changed the name of your business. Whether you have a registered business or not you may just want to change your Facebook Page name for SEO or other reasons. In this case your registered business name won’t match the Facebook page name you want.
The result will be “we were unable to approve your request to change your page name”
100% Fail Proof Name Change
This is a step method and may take a week to do, but it works. For this example let’s assume you have an electrical company and want to expand into a full service construction company.
Your old company name was “Fred’s Electrical” and the new company name is “Fred & Betty’s Construction”. For SEO purposes you want to name your Facebook page “Hartford New Home Construction”. This name change would likely be disapproved. Even on an appeal with proof of business – your business name won’t match your Facebook page name.
Grey Hat Facebook Name Change Appeal Process
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Day 1: Change the name from “Fred’s Electrical” to “Fred’s Electrical Hartford“
Day 2: Change the name from “Fred’s Electrical Hartford” to “Fred’s Home Electrical Hartford”
Day 3: Change the name from “Fred’s Home Electrical Hartford” to “New Home Electrical Hartford”
Day 4: Change the name from “New Home Electrical Hartford” to “New Home Electrical Construction Hartford”
Day 5: Change the name from “New Home Electrical Construction Hartford” to “New Home Construction Hartford”
Day 6: Change the name from “New Home Construction Hartford” to “Hartford New Home Construction”
You can try to do it faster and change more words if you’d like but the chances of being rejected are greater.
This is awesome, thanks! Does this still work in 2018?
Hi James,
I just used this in January and haven’t heard from anyone saying it doesn’t work anymore. Just be patient with it and change one word at a time.
Please come back and let me know how you made out!
Good luck! 😀
I have heard before that it was difficult to change a page name more than once, so I have been hesitant to do so. Is that not the case?
Hi Megan,
I can’t say for sure what they will do but I think the worse that can happen is they say no. They denied my request a few times before I did what I described above. Let me know how you make out!
Hi Cynthia,
If I want to change a single word name to a single word name, what can I do?
Because I appeal several times but still get rejected.
Hi Alves,
Maybe try adding a word or two. For example if the name of the FB page is “Twilight” and you want to change it to “Conditioner” try this:
Day 1: Twilight + Cold Air
Day 2 (after approved): Twilight Cold Air + Conditioner
Day 3: remove Twilight = Cold Air Conditioner
Day 4: remove Cold Air.
Let me know how it goes 🙂
Thank you for this work around. I was just stumped as to what to do.
Michael
Hi Cynthia.
My facebook page name is “Magical Messi” but i want to change it to “Barcelona Barca” and i am getting rejected evevery time i try it.
Can you show me how to do it?
Hi Arlind,
Did you try all the steps above? Please walk me through what you have already done and what the reason for rejection was.
This really great! Thanks… I just got denied. Question, how long do you have to wait to try this after they deny you? I’ve read 7 days and I’ve read 12 hours. Your website looks great. I’m going to check it out to see what you offer. We are rebranding so there is much work to do!
Hi Kim – it seems to vary for time. I have had it 3 days or a few hours.
Glad you like the website – if you need anything just ask 😀
I really love what you said. I thought about it but was scared of its consequences and time it will consume.
My page’s name was soccertalkz then after I bought a domain, I easily changed it to soccertalkz.com and before that, I had tried to change it to soccertalkz manchester united fans but was rejected, maybe so many words added.
Now i have changed the domain name to manutdtimes and I tried to change the whole page name to manutdtimes but was constantly rejected.
After reading this from you, I figured out how I may get it changed. The first name of the page was ‘soccertalkz’ then maybe I will change the current name (soccertalkz.com) to ‘soccertalkz’ and after a couple of days, I will add soccertalkz “mantd’, if it gets approved.
The next day or two, I will add soccertalkz times manutd and if it gets approved and will wait about three days or so then changed it to “manutd soccertalkz times’ and after the approval and will make the second-to-last change to be “manutd times” and if that gets approved, I will rest it as “manutdtimes” by removing the space between them.
Thanks for this idea of yours! Hope it should be as easy as you have explained.