

The conclusion I draw from this little nugget of research? If you want to get discovered on LinkedIn, I have two words of advice for you:

The peaks correlate with the days I publish this newsletter. They saw something I had published, they saw I had commented or engaged with someone else’s content or someone me. The screen grab at the top of today's newsletter shows my number of profile viewers going up and down over the course of this summer. That leaves 258 people who were not connected with me.Īnd of that 258 profile viewers, 7 found me via Search on LinkedIn.Įveryone else discovered me because of something I did. I can think of three times I have done it today already. I can’t tell you the number of times I have gone to a connections’ profile to check something. This may seem odd but is completely legitimate. I wound up reviewing the last 300 people who visited my profile and looking to see where they came from, that is, how they found my profile.Ĥ2 of them - around 14% - were connections. So I decided to go back through my profile viewers and look at the sources I could find, and see if there was anything I could learn from them. And I like seeing lists of people that, for one reason or another, have taken an interest in me.īut while doing my daily look through earlier this week, I saw that some profile views listed sources and some didn’t.

I use this feature every day as I consider a profile view to be a plausible and legitimate reason to contact someone. I have a premium subscription membership on LinkedIn (Sales Navigator) and with one of its features I can go back and see everyone who viewed my profile in the past ninety days.
