{"id":404,"date":"2019-10-28T17:19:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T17:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/?p=404"},"modified":"2019-10-28T17:19:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T17:19:59","slug":"linking-your-social-media-to-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/maintenance\/linking-your-social-media-to-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Linking your social media to your website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have your facebook, twitter, or instagram link posted on your website?\u00a0 Did you know that if you ever change your facebook, twitter, or instagram name you also change the link to that account?\u00a0 So if you are providing your social media links on your website, that will now go to a dead link, or a page not found message.\u00a0 Not only does that not look good to a potential customer, but it also raises an eyebrow for the search engines too. Little things like that could be the difference between gaining a client or losing a client.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to double check ALL of your internal and external links that you have on your website.\u00a0 Keep in mind that search engines may still have your old\/dead links indexed. So before you go ahead and change your username, make sure you are thinking it through.\u00a0 Questions? Give us a call.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-405 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/webleaps_social_10_28_19-300x233.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/webleaps_social_10_28_19-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/webleaps_social_10_28_19-768x596.png 768w, https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/webleaps_social_10_28_19-1024x794.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/webleaps_social_10_28_19.png 1203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have your facebook, twitter, or instagram link posted on your website?\u00a0 Did you know that if you ever change your facebook, twitter, or instagram name you also change the link to that account?\u00a0 So if you are providing your social media links on your website, that will now go to a dead link, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,6],"tags":[263,262,261,260,259],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maintenance","category-marketing","category-website-design","tag-link-instagram-to-website","tag-put-facebook-icon-on-facebook","tag-social-media-links-on-website","tag-updating-your-website","tag-website-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webleaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}