How to Add Social Media Links to Google Search Profile?

If you are a corporate website owner, you want your visitors to see the best results for your site in Google search results. One of the most important steps of this is to be able to show your social media profiles in Google searches. Today I will tell you how to show your social media […]

How To Add Social Media Links To Google Search Profile?

If you are a corporate website owner, you want your visitors to see the best results for your site in Google search results. One of the most important steps of this is to be able to show your social media profiles in Google searches. Today I will tell you how to show your social media links in Google searches.

Google recently posted a content on how to show social media links in search results to official support pages. Before starting the explanation, if you are using All in One SEO or Yoast by SEO plugin on your site, you have already added the following code structure to your site. So you don’t need to repeat the steps below.

Finally, if you want to get a more detailed Google search result about your website such as the search result in the image below (address, phone, content, etc.), make sure to optimize your business in detail by adding it to the Google Business area.

Social Profiles on Google Searches

If you follow the steps, your social media profiles will appear on your website’s Google profile as in the example below. You need to take a few steps for create this. Let’s take a brief look at how to add social media links to Google search results without wasting time.

Supported Social Media Sites

It is possible to show your social media profiles in the list below in Google search results. Google is doing detailed studies for other social media sites, and many social media profiles will be added to this list in the last quarter of 2021.

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn
  • Myspace
  • Pinterest
  • SoundCloud
  • Tumblr

Follow the steps below to show social media profiles of your site in Google search results;

  1. Make sure you can add script to the background of your website. If you don’t, send these instructions to your website developer.
  2. Copy and paste the following code into plain text document.
  3. Add your organization’s name to the “name” section of the script.
  4. Add your website to the “url” section of your script.
  5. Add your social media links to the “sameAs” section of the script.
  6. Copy and paste your edited script into the title or body of your web pages. If you’re using WordPress, you should place this script somewhere where you place analytical or remarketing scripts (above the head tag in the header.php file).
  7. Check your script with Google’s Structured Data Testing tool.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{ "@context" : "http://schema.org",
  "@type" : "Organization",
  "name" : "Your Organization Name",
  "url" : "http://www.your-site.com",
  "sameAs" : [ "http://www.facebook.com/your-profile",
    "http://www.twitter.com/yourProfile",
    "http://plus.google.com/your_profile"] 
}

If you’ve done the steps above correctly, Google will soon start showing your social media links in search results. I hope this article will contribute to making your site more visible in Google search results. You can support the publication of similar content more by following us on social media.

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