---
title: "Connect your social profiles to your website — for search engines"
url: "https://mycommunitysync.com/social-profiles-search-engines-connect"
community: "CommunitySync"
description: "The social links in your footer do a second job — they tell search engines and AI assistants that your Facebook page, your LinkedIn page and your website are one and the same community."
updated: "2026-09-06T12:27:04.113151+00:00"
---

# Connect your social profiles to your website — for search engines

*Website Publishing*

A search engine that finds your website, your Facebook page and your LinkedIn page sees three strangers with a similar name. Tell it they belong together and it sees one community, three doors — which is what it needs before it will show your name, your logo and your profiles as a unit. On your site, that link is made in one place you probably already filled in for visitors: the footer.

## Add the links

1. Open the website editor.
2. In the left icon rail, click **Nav & footer**, then switch to the **Footer** sub-tab.
3. Open the **Social links** section. It offers a fixed set of networks — fill in only the ones you actually use.
4. Paste the address of each **profile** (see below), then **Save** and **Publish**.

![The Social links section of the Footer panel](https://iaktsmonietvbikzietg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/site-assets/kb/footer-social-links.png "Footer → Social links. The warning triangle marks an address that points at a video or post rather than a profile — it stays in the footer but is left out of the structured data."){size=md}

Every page of your site then carries those addresses in its structured data as `sameAs` — the standard way of saying "this organization is also the one at these addresses". You can see the result in the SEO tab: [See what Google sees](/see-what-google-sees) → the **Organization** node.

## Profile links, not posts

The link has to be your **profile or page** — the address that stands for you as an organization:

| Network | Use an address like |
|---|---|
| Facebook | `facebook.com/yourpage` |
| Instagram | `instagram.com/yourhandle` |
| LinkedIn | `linkedin.com/company/yourcommunity` |
| YouTube | `youtube.com/@yourchannel` |
| X | `x.com/yourhandle` |

A link to a single post, reel or video is not you — it's one thing you said. The editor warns you when an address looks like a post or a video. The link still appears in the footer for visitors, but it's left out of the structured data on purpose: claiming a post *is* your organization would be a false statement, and search engines treat those badly.

## Keep the names matching

The links only help if the profiles agree with the site. Use the same community name, the same logo and, where a profile has a "website" field, your own domain. A search engine confirms identity by looking for consistency in both directions; a LinkedIn page pointing at a different website undoes the work.

## Where this shows up

Nowhere on the page — the change is entirely for machines. Over time it's what lets Google build a knowledge panel for your community (the box with name, logo and profiles) and what lets an AI assistant answer "who is this?" with your own profiles rather than a guess. It's a small task with a long tail, which is why it's worth doing once, properly.

### Website Publishing

- [Get your website into Google — Search Console and your sitemap](https://mycommunitysync.com/get-into-google-search-console.md)
- [See what Google sees — your page's structured data](https://mycommunitysync.com/see-what-google-sees.md)
- [Why your site isn't in Google yet — and what actually moves it](https://mycommunitysync.com/why-your-site-is-not-in-google-yet.md)
- [Optimize a page for search (SEO title, description, social image)](https://mycommunitysync.com/website-seo-basics.md)
- [Set up redirects for moved or renamed pages](https://mycommunitysync.com/set-up-website-redirects.md)
- [Set your website's favicon (browser-tab icon)](https://mycommunitysync.com/set-a-favicon.md)
- [Delete and restore your website](https://mycommunitysync.com/delete-and-restore-website.md)
- [Take your website live (and how fast changes appear)](https://mycommunitysync.com/take-your-website-live.md)
- [Connect a custom domain to your website](https://mycommunitysync.com/connect-a-custom-domain.md)
- [What is schema markup — and what your site adds automatically](https://mycommunitysync.com/what-is-schema-markup.md)
- [Where FAQ schema works today — and where it doesn't](https://mycommunitysync.com/faq-schema-where-it-works.md)