With the increasing number of registered users, LinkedIn is becoming one of the social media platforms that small businesses use to enhance brand visibility, foster customer relationships, build a reputation, and nurture new business ventures. About 90% of recruiters from known companies make use of LinkedIn to search for eligible candidates who can possibly fill in their job vacancies. More to that, a huge percentage of B2B companies use this platform to find new customers. This is why getting a good profile rank is very critical for LinkedIn users.
Do you need to increase your profile rank? Have you tried a couple of ways to obtain a higher profile level but to no avail? Well, you might haven’t tried these effective techniques yet. Try these easy to follow tips and you will surely see your profile views soar in no time.
Update Your Profile
The first thing you should do is to set-up a complete profile and keep it always updated. From time to time, you may need to post something new in your profile which is interesting enough to attract your LinkedIn contacts to visit and view your profile like new interests, thought process, assignment, position, location, so on and so forth. You can also update your profile through posting things like special days, date, and events. If you do not have something new to post, you can just delete some information and publish your profile. Then add back what you have removed and publish your profile again. You can also add new details by adding a full stop or a comma. All of these three ways qualify for a profile update. Once the update is published, LinkedIn will notify your connections and they may be urged to visit your profile to check what you have just updated. Just remember to have something to write about, rephrase or revise every day.
Remove better-ranking connections
One tweak you can do to boost your profile ranking is to remove or delete those whose profile ranking is higher than yours. By doing so, the possibilities of increasing your profile views become higher.
Increase your connections
Your connections play a very crucial part in your ranking. The more connections you have, the better ranking you will get. For instance, if you have only 1 connection, your highest possible rank will only be 1. If you have around a thousand connection, your profile rank will as well play around 1 to 1000.
Participate in groups
One way to increase your connection and profile rank is to participate in any groups that interest you. You should be able to actively participate in the discussions and strive to be the top contributor of such groups.You can also join homogeneous groups where you can share and connect with people with same interest as yours. Or choose heterogeneous groups that are composed of members with different conflicting interests. The most favourable types of groups you should choose are those with a bigger number of members and those that allow members to post discussions.
Write and post articles
Writing and posting articles of interests can keep your connections’ engagement to your page. Research for articles or matters that are highly engaging and timely, then write something about it. Look for things that can encourage people to post comments or something that can motivate your connections to start a discussion. For instance, you can post-church matters and share it to your heterogeneous groups. For sure, a lot of contradicting parties are willing to share their ideas and belief as well.
Connect with people you know
The quality of your first connections can greatly contribute to your well-being. Be sure to connect with people you personally know for instance those you have worked with in the past, your former college or high school classmates and batchmates, family members, friends, and acquaintances. Start off by establishing a network with people who know you. Then expand your professional network by adding people you do not know or who do not know you. Unless otherwise you already have a highly established name in the industry, never pick strangers as your first connections as they may be sceptical about your real intentions and that in effect will hurt the quality of your first connections.
Value your connections
Let your connections know that you value them by greeting them during their special days. For instance, greet your connections who are celebrating their birthdays, work anniversary, or perhaps those who have just got a new job or promotion. Just let everyone know you are around by posting something. Believe it or not, there will be a couple of people who will view your profile just by doing this. To be able to know the activity for the day, simply click on the connections tab then choose the option that tells “keep in touch”.
