Audit rules
Social Profile Links
Informational: links from the page to profiles on known social networks. In a QuikSEO audit, a failure of this rule has info severity and counts against the score. Below are the exact condition, its exceptions and the sources behind it, followed by the other rules of the same group.
social.profile_linksInfo01 — Definition
How This Rule Is Checked
The rule is a pure function of the fetched page: no extra requests, no account settings. The same input always gives the same result.
Rule Severity and Score
- Rule id
social.profile_links- Group
- Social
- Severity of a failure
- Info
- Counts in the score
- Yes, whenever it applies to the page
- Required for a score
- No
- Replaces the check
social_links
Condition and Exceptions
- Condition
- Informational: pass with observed links to known social networks (facebook, x/twitter, instagram, linkedin, youtube, tiktok, pinterest, github, threads, mastodon)
- Exceptions
- —
Sources and Project Decision
- Sources
- No authoritative document covers this check: it is a project decision (see the decision below and the source register).
- Project decision
- Share and intent links (sharer, intent, shareArticle, pin/create) are not counted as profiles. Mastodon is recognized on its main public instances only, since any server can host it.
02 — Social
Other Rules in This Group
The other checks of the same group, each with its own condition and sources.
- Open Graph URL Mismatchsocial.og_url_mismatch
- Open Graph Missingsocial.opengraph_missing