Should we Nofollow Social Links?

[JH_OffLimits]

I've been asked the question of whether if we should nofollow all of our social links, would this be a wise thing to do?

I'm not exactly getting a clear answer from search results and thought you guys would be best to ask

Thanks in advance.

[paints-n-design]

Thats a really good question and I can only tell you my own point of view. Even in SEO-world in done and not done. I just think like this:

According to Google, use nofollow for

• not trustworthy pages you link to
• paid links
• crawl prioritization

So one and two  is not the case (hopefully I can trust your socials). 
To Point three, some webmasters really want to safe "PR" or "DA" with not passing it to pages using nofollow. This is not working, the PR is just send to nirvana. You can't save it, it is divided by links - no matter if the are followed or not. So the only reason in point 3 is - you don't want Search Engines to notfollow and notindex your socials (last is done if you nofollow them or not) - so my Point of View:

I just use nofollow in cases Google says I should (you can btw read it here https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en). Socials is not one of these cases, so I use Follow .

Add: Comments and User-Generated-Content is also a good Idea of using nofollow - dont know if Google mentions that on the given Page)

[josellamazares]

Hi,

In my opinion that is not negative for the SEO of your website because you are linking to sites with more authority than your website. That's positive, besides being able to increase your social traffic, those are positive signals for Google. When you go to link to sites that do not want to transmit your authority or that you just do not see them safe to the user experience you can use the nofollow tag.

I hope it helps

Regards

[jasongmcmahon]

I agree with Andreas explanation of Google rules on using nofollow /