# Facebook question: My Facebook page and its post are not visible **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 15, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-question-my-facebook-page-and-its-post-are-not-visible/810617 "2018-03-15T18:46:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-question-my-facebook-page-and-its-post-are-not-visible/810617/1 "2018-03-15T18:46:22Z")
I have a product I’m selling as a hobby. I created a Facebook page for my ”company”. Now there are two things that puzzles me. But let me first say: 1) While I have had a Facebook account for years, I mainly used it to follow some groups; I almost never create stuff on Facebook, so in that sense this is new to me. 2) I have googled on these issues, but either I come up with lots of hits about other things, or stuff that is several years old with information that’s obsolete. So here goes: The page: I created the page this Sunday. It took a couple of days before it turned up my own Facebook-searches. It still (Thursday) does not turn up for other users (wife and daughter being test girls). The page’s status is ”Published” since Sunday. **Q1** : Is there something else I need to do, to make my page publicly available? The post: During Sunday, I posted a message on this page. I can see it on the page, but when I choose to look at the page ”as a visitor”, the post is not visible. There is a ”Marketing”\* button, but when I press that it seems not to be a ”do you want other people to see this”, but rather, ”do you want to spend a couple of dollars on marketing”. **Q2** : Is there something else I need to do, to make my post publicly available? Thanks for taking time. - Or ”Market post”, or something like that. My GUI is not in English. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-question-my-facebook-page-and-its-post-are-not-visible/810617/2 "2018-03-15T23:57:01Z")
Next to the post date is a symbol with a triangle to the right. It lets you set who can see the post. If it looks like a globe, anyone should be able to see the post. If it looks like a padlock, only you can see it. You can change it by clicking on it and making sure Public is selected. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-question-my-facebook-page-and-its-post-are-not-visible/810617/3 "2018-03-16T00:02:59Z")
I missed the edit window. You might also look at your privacy settings and see what your default audience is. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-question-my-facebook-page-and-its-post-are-not-visible/810617/4 "2018-03-16T05:50:10Z")
Thanks, **Doug**. Unfortunately the post is Global. ☹ I will go through all the settings again when I have time, but so far I have not seen any setting that hints that my posts shouldn’t be seen by all. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-question-my-facebook-page-and-its-post-are-not-visible/810617/5 "2018-03-17T05:07:10Z")
Not showing up in searches: After a week, the page still does not show up on Facebook searches. Googling this it seems to be a common problem. Even pages with lots of followers often does not show up in Facebook searches, it seems. Post not showing for visitors: It seems that the option “View the page as a visitor” (or something like that, in English) is broken. Visitors – when they’ve actually found my page – do in fact see my posts, even though they disappear from my view when I choose to see my page “as a visitor”.