No Follow for Social Media Buttons?
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Our website has all social media buttons for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ are located in the footer of all pages. These links are set to "no-follow".
Running an SEMRUSH audit shows these "no-follows" coming up as an "issue". Is it best practices to set these links to social media sites as "follow" as opposed to "no-follow"? I am somewhat concerned about losing link juice but perhaps that is an outdated point of view.
Any thoughts??
Thanks, Alan
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Honestly speaking, it was some other website, I would have encouraged you to set a do-follow tag but as they are social media plguins, there is no problem with that!
I personally think, anything follow or no-follow both should work fine and it should any affect your SERP positions.
Just a Thought!
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Alan, it is an out-dated mind set.
It is good to supply external links to authoritative social portals belonging to the web portal.
/Chenzo
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