Facebook Help - If You Can

hmm, so said company created a Facebook page which was in effect rented to you. Naughty  

It depends on what your expectations are search wise. eg, we rank for the first 4 places if you type in "my local services facebook".

But in reality no is going to type that in, so its nothing more than vanity. Any other search will bring in actual site results rather than facebook. I'd be gutted if our FB page turned up above our website.

Why are you keen for your facebook page to be ranked on Google? Facebook is a separate platform with different exposure possibilities, obviously with a social bias, but I would have thought you would have more promotion and conversion control from your own website rather than promoting a social media platform? 

hmm, so said company created a Facebook page which was in effect rented to you. Naughty
Yep, as well as distributing my details across hundreds of various business directories, apparently.
  I broke away from the contract for a number of reasons, one of them being that I didn't agree with the contract itself... long story.

Why are you keen for your facebook page to be ranked on Google?
Why not?  Yes, I agree it's a separate social media platform, but surely it's extra exposure?

but I would have thought you would have more promotion and conversion control from your own website rather than promoting a social media platform? 
True, you would think so anyway.   However, with respect, I feel that's hardly the point.  Why would you/do businesses bother with Fb pages in the first place?  To promote their business, yes?

Although I can't give you any examples, I believe I have come across business FB pages on Google.

Really, what i was trying to get at was the principle of how they actually did what they did,  but I guess I'm probably never going to know.

Yup plenty of FB pages are indexed by the Google god, and I suppose in answer to your question it's going to be the same SEO strategy as you would employ for your own site, high quality links pointing at it etc. The firm in question will no doubt have a network of high value links that they just squirt at your FB page, which was why it was ranking.

People have mixed views about FB when it comes to business. Me personally I think its a useful platform and we've seen good leads, promotion and traffic come from it. But it's come from the facebook platform, not as a result of out FB page showing google.

I want FB traffic to end up on our site, and any Google traffic to end up on our site, not sent to FB. So from a marketing point of view, I would invest the time and energy marketing my site, rather than a social media platform. But in parallel use social media to market my business and send traffic and enquires back to my site.

Just my perception and how I do things, doesn't make me right, just passing on my 5 pence worth. 

Not helpful, but just saying!