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name: social-profiles description: "Use 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." metadata: category: seo priority: low difficulty: beginner estimatedTime: "10" source: frontendchecklist.io url: https://frontendchecklist.io/rules/seo/social-profiles

Link to active social profiles

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.

Quick Reference

• Link to your official social media profiles from the site footer or About page
• Use Organization or Person schema with sameAs to explicitly connect your site to social profiles
• Only link to active profiles — a link to an abandoned account can harm trust
• Social profile links contribute to E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) signals

Check

Check 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.

Fix

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

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.

Code Review

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.

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For full implementation details, code examples, and framework-specific guidance, see references/rule.md.

Rule page: https://frontendchecklist.io/rules/seo/social-profiles