- Your links can be used to track your customers so companies like Facebook can show tailored made ads from your competition to your customers.
- They are off topic links
- They bleed link juice to social media sites that should be going to pages on your website and helping you rank.
- They break the visitors flow
- Social media sites make billions with your content and will bury a post that links back to your website so why would you link?
- You should use social media sites to drive traffic back to your site.
- Adding social media links can redirect visitors away from your site, undermining the primary goal of engagement, clicks, and conversions. This is likened to "sending guests off to someone else’s house" after inviting them to your party.
- Social media feeds or links can distract users with "shiny elements," reducing their likelihood of engaging with key website actions like exploring product pages or completing purchases.
- Social media platforms constantly change their algorithms, meaning traffic from these links can diminish unpredictably. Furthermore, embedding social feeds can create a disjointed branding experience if the visual styles don’t align.
- Embedded social feeds may inadvertently share user data with social platforms, raising privacy issues that could harm customer trust.
- Replicating social media posts on your website could lead to search engine penalties for duplicate content, negatively impacting SEO rankings.
I never said not to post on social media sites, I said don't link to them. Do you really belive someone goes to your website and says, "Man I really love that mustang and the price is right but I need to see their TikTok video before I buy it"?
They will go to review websites but they aren't going to checkout all your social post before making the purcahse.
If this was true how do customers sell their used vechiles without having a TikTok video?
Explain what a website that is built right looks like, or post an example, because if the website is built right it won't need to send anyone to a social media site.
If your website is built right it should be capturing interest and you shouldn't have to send your visitors to a 3rd party site to do it. And your not building brand awarness by sending visitors off your website that you control, that has your logo, your content, to a platform you don't control that is full of your competiton.
Your driving serious leads away from your website and not to your website.
Imagine your website visitor being able to see a 360 degree spin of you car on your website and not having to go to Instagram, where your competition hangs out.
They should never have to click away just to click back again.
That's how seamless it should be!
The right way is to have a website that can do more, better, easier, and seamlessly making the social media sites seem like a boring waste of time. The right way is never having to depend on a 3rd party website that you have zero control over.
The right way is having a website that gives them everything they need without having to click away only to click back again.
Not really a lot of thought needed, I just apply a little common sense to a bad idea. 
