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Verifies the owner's social profiles are linked from the site, working, and prominently placed, so visitors and Google can follow the entity off-site.
Category: Website QA Audit
Use this when running Layer 3 (Authority & Trust Checks) of the Website QA Audit – hidden or broken profile links sever the site from the rest of the entity.
Inputs
- The owner's canonical list of active social profiles (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter/X)
- Site URL on desktop and mobile
- The audit report/spreadsheet for logging results
Steps
- Build the reference list of the owner's verified, active profile URLs with the owner.
- Locate social links on the site and judge prominence: they must appear in the footer at minimum, and ideally also the header, about page, or hero area – a buried single mention fails prominence.
- Click every social link and confirm it opens the correct live profile from the reference list – not a platform homepage, a defunct account, or a wrong-person profile.
- Check for gaps: every active profile on the reference list should be linked somewhere visible on the site.
- Confirm icons render and are tappable on mobile (not crushed or overlapped).
- Cross-check the linked set against the schema sameAs list – site links and schema should name the same profiles – and log results in the audit report.
Definition of done (QA checklist)
- Every active profile on the reference list is linked from the site, and every social link resolves to the correct live profile
- Social links visible without hunting – footer at minimum – and functional on mobile
- Link map (including schema cross-check) logged in the audit report, linked back to /website-qa-audit
Example(s)
- Example needed – run the Meta-Article Prompt after first real run.
File in the zip: skills/website-qa-audit/check-social-profiles-linked-and-prominent.md. Download the Task Library zip.
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