Are Social Links on Home Page Good for SEO

[Studio33]

Hi,

I have removed the Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn and G+ links from the top of our home page so as to try and stop users leaving the page.  Is this bad for SEO?

Thanks

[Saijo.George]

If you engage with your follows and users on any of those social media accounts I would advise to link to them from your site. Perhaps you can move them to a less prominent location and open them in a new tab when users click on them.

If you don't engage with your followers then might as well get rid of them

[JarnoNijzing]

Dear Studio,

So if I understand you correctly you had links to the social media campaigns on your homepage and when a user clicked on one of those links the went to the facebook/google+ etc in the same window? Removing it is not bad for SEO purposes. What if you didn't have any Social Media account, then there wouldn't be links to it as well. So on that account you should be just fine.

You could also try to implement the links to social media again but implement them with a target="_blank" tag in the anchor. That way when a user clicks on the link they'll visit your social media campaign in a new window. So the user stays on your website and still can visit your social media. Problem solved right?

regards

Jarno