3 per day? How about 3 ever???
Posting open LinkedIn connection requests on Twitter is:
Noise. It’s certainly not conversation or relationship-building.
Desperate. Ugh. Who wants to connect with desperate?
Ineffective. What’s the value of those trivial electronic links? Referrals require trust.
Seriously though, let’s talk a little bit about LinkedIn and SEO (search engine optimization).
Realistically:
If you have a distinctive name, you can easily dominate the search engines on searches for your name. Get your name, or some variation of it, as a domain. Which do you really want to send people to: your LinkedIn profile, which [...]
Why you should take recommendations with a grain of salt:
So some SEO company in Jacksonville got the brilliant idea that they could use LinkedIn for pure SEO purposes, and they set up this profile:
That’s pretty “black hat”. But it’s also completely, utterly DUMB.
See, this profile might just actually get ranked well for “search engine optimization Jacksonville”, but even if it did, so what? Do [...]
LinkedIn does sometimes seem to have a mind of its own:
No matter how well you think you know someone, it’s still better to personalize your invitations, even if it’s “Hi honey, let’s link!”
Gonna have to create a new category for this one in 100+ Smart Ways to Use LinkedIn:
Besides the fact that it’s against LinkedIn’s User Agreement, this should just be plain common sense:
Who have you recommended lately?
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