Social profiles missing from Google’s Knowledge Graph

If you have a Knowledge Graph in Google, you want the information to be correct and your social profiles to show up in it. If they don’t, there are a couple of things you can do to troubleshoot.

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Become an official representative

As an official representative, Google allows you to make suggestions to edit your Knowledge Graph. To become a representative, follow the steps laid out in Google’s get verified on Google article. Once you’re an official representative, it’s easy to suggest changes. As Google states there, “Eligible entities will be able to suggest the addition of new, or edit existing, social profiles. Profiles cannot be reordered”.

Using custom mark-up?

If, for some reason, you’re not using Yoast SEO’s schema implementation or unable to verify as an official representative, it’s important to double-check that your custom markup is well-formed and can be processed by Google using Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool. When Google next crawls the page, its indexing algorithms will process the profiles from your markup and make them eligible to be used in search results. You can ask Google to crawl the page by following the instructions here. Please note that this process may take up to a week.

If everything looks correct, and you have waited at least one week since your marked-up page was last crawled by Google, report the missing events using the small Feedback link under the Knowledge Graph panel in Google search. Click Wrong? on your company’s name and explain the problem, being sure to use the term “social profiles” in your description of the problem.

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