social-profilesUse when applies to business websites, personal brand sites, and publisher sites. Use when setting up Organization schema or auditing E-E-A-T signals for sites in competitive or YMYL categories.
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Google uses social profile links and sameAs schema to verify an organization's identity and build entity associations that strengthen E-E-A-T — especially important for YMYL topics.
Organization or Person schema with sameAs to explicitly connect your site to social profilesCheck the site's footer, header, and About page for links to social media profiles. Verify the links go to the correct, active official profiles. Check for Organization or Person JSON-LD schema with a sameAs array listing social profile URLs.
Add links to active social profiles in the site footer using recognizable icons or text labels. Add or update Organization / Person schema with a sameAs array containing all official social profile URLs (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Facebook, etc.).
Explain how social profile links help search engines build an entity graph for the organization, how this contributes to E-E-A-T, and why linking to inactive profiles is counterproductive.
Review metadata generation, rendered HTML, structured data, and response headers related to Link to active social profiles. Flag exact routes or templates where search-facing output violates the rule, and describe how to verify the final page output.
For full implementation details, code examples, and framework-specific guidance,
see references/rule.md.
Rule page: https://frontendchecklist.io/rules/seo/social-profiles