Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero - Latest Comments in Optimize your LinkedIn Profile for SEO

Re: Optimize your LinkedIn Profile for SEO

YourMNDJ — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:23:49 -0000

Thanks for all your tips. i look forward to more posts from you.

Re: Optimize your LinkedIn Profile for SEO

Anthony @WSBD1.com — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:05:17 -0000

very cool, i already used this trick. and now im following you on linkedin

Re: Optimize your LinkedIn Profile for SEO

EbanC — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:49:34 -0000

Thanks for that information Chris. I am heading over to set my links up now.

Re: Optimize your LinkedIn Profile for SEO

Mircea / iSPINIT.com — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:34:40 -0000

I forgot to mention on the above comment that the LinkedIn hyper link used to be "My Podcast"...

Re: Optimize your LinkedIn Profile for SEO

Mircea / iSPINIT.com — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:17:01 -0000

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/searc... returned "my podcast" iSPINIT on page 6, and on Google.ca on page 3: http://www.google.ca/search...

Very cool! Thx, Penn!

Re: Optimize your LinkedIn Profile for SEO

Christopher S. Penn — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:37:04 -0000

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.

Re: Optimize your LinkedIn Profile for SEO

Colin — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:04:35 -0000

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/red...

This does nothing for SEO.

Re: Optimize your LinkedIn Profile for SEO

Donna Papacosta — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:49:58 -0000

Very useful tip, Chris. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Optimize your LinkedIn Profile for SEO

Reed Smith — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:34:17 -0000

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