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LinkedIn for SEO
In addition to being a great website for networking and reputation management, LinkedIn can also serve as a valuable SEO asset. Your profile allows 3 links to your websites. Use them. A few tips for making your profile rank better within LinkedIn, and most likely with external search engines, too.
- Complete your profile to 100%
- Join some groups
- Build a large contact list
- Recommend your contacts
- Ask your friends to recommend you
- When commenting on blogs, make your LinkedIn profile sometimes the URL for your comment
This is also a great way to create a very credible page that will rank well for your name, including great positive recommendations in your favor. See more about this in my post on SEO tactics for reputation management.
You can view my profile at LinkedIn: David Leonhardt. Note, I am only connecting to people I actually know and have worked with.
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May 27th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Great article, David! I’ve been trying to have a bigger and better presence on LinkedIn for myself. It’s always great to network!
Thanks,
-Gina
June 22nd, 2008 at 3:42 pm
thanks,
And now I have linkedin profile page. To manage my profile page, I link each of my profile page in other source. I hope this tactic will buzz my profile
August 5th, 2008 at 10:43 am
That’ a great idea. I just recently signed up for LinkedIn, but haven’t done anything with it yet. I think I’ll try to finish up my profile and see how well it can be used to help my existing stuff.
August 31st, 2008 at 5:05 am
A few of my friends said that the LinkedIn did help in the SEO matters, and they also have recommended me to join the LinkedIn big family as soon as possible.
After I have read your artilce, I think I should join it right away…!
September 17th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
I still have a lot of seo costumers without using linkedin. Maybe I’ll create an account when I’ll run out of costumers
October 6th, 2008 at 11:36 am
I think LinkedIn is more to reputation optimization – especially you’re offering online services. Can’t imagine the impact on SEO as I see the link has little or nearly no link juice at all.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:09 am
Never use Linkedln for SEO ing my blog, but this new technique is a nice thing to try…, thanks for the information
November 13th, 2008 at 4:49 am
juice or not – I’ll find out an do follow your last recommendation right now! thanx for the article!
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:32 am
Thanks for the tip, I new to SEO and still learning ,Great site certainly very helpful to people like me.I’ll be looking forward to more tips…Cheers!
December 8th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
I never knew linkedin could be useful for SEO.Thanks for information, I’ll work on it the next time.
March 7th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Brilliant idea! "When commenting on blogs, make your LinkedIn profile sometimes the URL for your comment."
September 16th, 2009 at 4:11 am
This is also a great way to create a very credible page that will rank well for your name, including great positive recommendations in your favor.
February 25th, 2010 at 6:28 am
Totally agree with you that it a great idea to create a very credible page that will rank well for our name, including great positive recommendations in our favor.I will follow your tips for making our profile rank better within LinkedIn.Thanks for sharing awesome article
May 9th, 2013 at 4:57 am
LinkedIn is really even more of a popularity contest than Twitter. The vast majority of searches on the social media network for professionals are done through a filter of personal connections.