AddThis good or bad for SEO - Urgent

[seoman10]

I have heard rumours that AddThis isn't good for SEO is that correct?

Just thinking about adding it to my site.

[ThomasHarvey]

What would be wrong with addthis? It's used by a large amount of sites. I don't believe there would be any negative impact from you adding this to your site.

[EGOL]

I used to use it.   I don't think that it is bad for SEO.

I stopped using it because out of millions of impressions per month, it was engaged very little.  I tried a variety of formats and even the large buttons.

So, I decided to get rid of it to....

--- reduce the amount of code on the site

--- eliminate the small impact that it might have on loading speed

--- reduce the visual distraction away from my content

--- reduce the amount of data harvested from my site or my visitors.

[Tymen]

Hi,

In Addition to EGOL:

---get higher loading speed of pages

Good luck!

Tymen

[GlobeRunner]

Overall, it's not going to have a huge impact on SEO one way or the other--but keep in mind that the links generated are going to typically be 301 Permanent Redirects. Whenever you have a 301 redirect you may lose some overall link value. So, for example, if your site's blog post is shared on another site, there will be a link to your blog post--and the link will be a 301 redirect. You'll lose some link value. How much link value is lost is debatable, but there will be some lost.

When we share links we typically want to share the full URL, and not a shortened URL that is a redirect.

[ChristineTorres2017]

Hi,
What are some alternatives to addthis that we could use in our blog that doesn't mess with SEO?