No Follow for Social Media Buttons?

[Kingalan1]

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 I am somewhat concerned about losing link juice but perhaps that is an outdated point of view.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

[Chenzo]

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

[MoosaHemani]

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!