Should we no-follow it or no?
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We run the biggest yellow pages in Lithuania, and lately we have allowed companies to put their facebook' links on the info page.
You can see the facebook button on the left: http://www.visalietuva.lt/imone/fcr-media-lietuva-uab
We put the no-follow attribute for now. Should we do that or just leave it as follow and expect that Google will count this as "trustworthy" link?
I hope I made it pretty clear
Thank you very much.
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I would recommend sticking to nofollow for company profile Social Media links. Aside from that, I would suggest using dofollow for your own Social Media links, that's if you have any. May they be sitewide or individual links on a contact page. However, it's not going to make much of an impact to your site!
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Usually in this cases, it's OK to nofollow that link. Is not big deal at my point of view but nofollow it should be fine.
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