By Scott Allen, on January 13th, 2012 |
 I originally wrote about this issue back in 2007, and while LinkedIn has occasionally (and inconsistently) manually cracked down on this practice, 5 years later they still haven’t really done much to curb it. It’s a fairly common practice, primarily among “open networkers”, it seems, to put all kinds of stuff in the name field of their LinkedIn profiles, including:
- E-mail addresses (originally intended to bypass LinkedIn’s requirement of knowing it in order to connect, which they no longer do — now it’s just a shortcut to allow people to contact you more quickly)
- “LION” (intended to indicate the person is a Linked In Open Networker and generally receptive to invitations from people they don’t know)
- Connection counts (intended to impress people, I suppose — the implication being that having more connections somehow makes one more worthwhile to connect to)
- Various punctuation marks (intended, presumably, to affect sort order, or perhaps make the name stand out more in search results — the sort order is a non-issue, since LinkedIn doesn’t display search results alphabetically)
Continue reading Nothing But Your Name, Please
By Scott Allen, on January 12th, 2012 |
 When LinkedIn first launched, there was nowhere to put links to any of your web sites in your profile. Then they added the ability for a single link, and later three. Now, they not only allow you to have three links, you can also make the text for those links whatever you want, rather than just the generic “My Website”, “My Blog” and “My Company”.
Continue reading Making the Most of Website Links on Your LinkedIn Profile
By Scott Allen, on January 11th, 2012 |
Besides the fact that it’s against LinkedIn’s User Agreement, this should just be plain common sense:
Continue reading Your LinkedIn Profile Photo Matters
By Scott Allen, on January 10th, 2012 |
This is from the Linked Intelligence archives, originally published 3/20/2009. I’m republishing it because I saw a couple of profiles today that were darn near this bad. Some people never learn!
Some search engine optimization company got the brilliant idea that they could use LinkedIn for pure SEO purposes, and they set up a profile that looked . . .
Read More: How NOT to Use LinkedIn for SEO
By Lori Ruff, The LinkedIn Diva, on January 9th, 2012 |
 There is a new option on LinkedIn that lets you tell LinkedIn that the position you are adding to your profile is one for which you used LinkedIn to find, research or connect to someone that helped you get the position. As seen in the screen shot, your answer will be kept private, but . . .
Read More: Tip from the LinkedIn Rockstars – Helping LinkedIn Improve
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