How do I get more views of my LinkedIn Profile?

How do I get more views of my LinkedIn Profile?

Whether you are looking for a job or looking for leads to new clients, one of the keys is getting recruiters, hiring managers and  prospects to look at your LinkedIn profile.

First look at how frequently your profile is viewed.

LinkedIn folklore says that your profile needs to be viewed 1,300 times to get a job. Is this true? I do not know but it is a reasonable number to me. You can tell that my LinkedIn profile has been viewed 920 times over the last three months. It has been steadily increasing over the last six months.

Why do people look at profiles?

I am going to give you several basic reasons why people look at profiles and then some strategies.

• Search – Recruiters and hiring managers are using LinkedIn search using keywords
• Readers click on your name when they read a content that you posted on LinkedIn
  • Content that you shared on your personal LinkedIn profile
  • Content that you shared on a LinkedIn Group
  • Content that you shared on your personal LinkedIn profile and some one else shared it
• LinkedIn Users see that you have looked at their LinkedIn profile and they click on yours

In this post, let us talk about the second one, sharing content.

The more you share, the more frequently your name shows up in the activity feed. One way to get noticed it is to post at the same frequency and time each day.

How Frequent Should I Post?

This is dependent on how much content you curate and how often your connections want you to post.

I post twice a day.

When do you post?

I post at 8:15 AM CT and 2:05 PM CT.

Wait!! You are probably saying — you have an alarm set to tell you to post?

No, I use a  free application called BufferApp, Check it out at www.bufferapp.com

I used Buffer App to post to LinkedIn personal profile, Facebook and Twitter. Each channel has a separate schedule.

The free version you can post to three channels and have a maximum of 11 in each queue.

Watch this video on how I do it!

Go to the BufferApp Webpage and check it out.

You will want to determine how much time you want to give to finding good content.

Notice I said good content!

Bufferapp will give you statistics on how often the content you post is clicked on, liked, retweeted, shared,….. You will then determine whether you want to post more often, less often or change the timing.

Give it a try!

In my next post I will write about strategically looking at targeted individuals profiles with the intention of getting them to look at yours.

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Marc Miller Career Design Specialist