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Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero: Optimize your LinkedIn Profile for SEO

  • Reed Smith · 1 year ago
    hey very cool. Thanks for pointing out. I am over to my profile now to change...
  • Donna Papacosta · 1 year ago
    Very useful tip, Chris. Thanks for sharing!
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • Mircea / iSPINIT.com · 1 year ago
    I forgot to mention on the above comment that the LinkedIn hyper link used to be "My Podcast"...
  • Eban Crawford · 1 year ago
    Thanks for that information Chris. I am heading over to set my links up now.
  • Anthony @WSBD1.com · 8 months ago
    very cool, i already used this trick. and now im following you on linkedin
  • ryanconlon78 · 15 hours ago
    Thanks for all your tips. i look forward to more posts from you.