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Optimize your LinkedIn Profile for SEO

Started by Christopher S. Penn · 10 months ago

LinkedIn. Love it or hate it, it’s prominent, it’s a social network, and it lets you post URLs to your profile… except that they’re naked URLs, with no link text to help you in your search efforts, right?
Nope.
Now you can. Go to Linked ... Continue reading »

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Reed Smith
1 year ago

hey very cool. Thanks for pointing out. I am over to my profile now to change...

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Donna Papacosta
1 year ago

Very useful tip, Chris. Thanks for sharing!

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Colin
1 year ago

Chris, unfortunately, that won't really work. Most sites use "ref=nofollow" which tells search engines to ignore the link. Linked In and Myspace re-encode the link. For example - my site - http://www.topstartup.com becomes http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F...

This does nothing for SEO.

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Christopher S. Penn
1 year ago

Colin,

Normally you'd be right, but take a look at the source of your public LinkedIn page. Mine shows completely unobstructed valid URLs without a nofollow in sight.

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Mircea / iSPINIT.com
1 year ago

Chris is right... the public profile shows unobstructed URLs.

In fact this solves one of my mysteries: a search for "my podcast" on Google.com http://www.google.com/search?q=%22my+podcast%22... returned "my podcast" iSPINIT on page 6, and on Google.ca on page 3: http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22my+podcast%22&...

Very cool! Thx, Penn!

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