How to Use LinkedIn for SEO ?

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Quote: If you have been the owner of a website or a blog for any length of time, you’re probably striving continuously to improve the SEO (search engine optimization , find more SEO Tips ) of your website. Let’s face it; the more effort you put into SEO, the better your ranking will be on the various search engines, which in turn means your website will enjoy more traffic as a result.

Of course, even though you more than likely already use several social networking sites, you may not yet be sure of how much those sites can help improve your rankings. One of the best sites to take advantage of is LinkedIn. The main reason for this is that the site already enjoys phenomenal rankings due to the profiles which are hosted on it.

In the event that you already have a LinkedIn account then you can already begin improving your website’s SEO with your LinkedIn account. In fact, let’s take a look at a few simple ways for using LinkedIn in order to improve the SEO of your website or blog:

Step 1 – Make Use of Anchor Text and Links

Even though this is incredibly simple, it’s of the utmost importance, if you want to increase the SEO of your site. You need to use anchor text in order to link to your website from your LinkedIn profile. When you create links to your various websites, it results in potentially profitable backlinks, and this is why it’s important to use anchor text which makes use of specific keywords which are relevant to your website.

You need to bear in mind that major search engines such as Google will quite literally scrutinize anchor text when they rank websites. This of course means that if you had web site specific key words to your anchor text, your SEO will be vastly improved. In other words you need to avoid using names like “My Website” or George’s Blog, but instead, you should try to be a little bit more creative.

Step 2 – Focus on Keywords When you Compose Your Profile

When you sit down to type up... Continued at: http://www.site-reference.com/articles/How-to-Use-LinkedIn-for-SEO I just start using LinkedIn. Nice to know about its SEO benifits. Thanks for Sharing. I joined linkedin awhile back for my website, but never really knew how to use it. Thanks for sharing these great tips! No help here. IIRC a few months ago google showed a backlink from my linkedin profile and now I just checked and it's gone. The HTML for the link is a bit odd but still...

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</a> An off topic question, when linkedin manipulates the HTML like above does that effect the backlink being credited?

Also, I am unable to locate anywhere on the linkedin profile where I can add such a link with anchors. nice tips..i m looking forward to implement the anchor text
i just want to confirm if linkedin gives a nofollow link or a dofollow ?
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Wow awesome article. I also just started using LinkedIn so I didn't really know how to take advantage of the SEO benefits - so this was definitely very helpful. Thank you for the information, it's appreciated. Thanks for the tips about linkedin. Also i found last month linkedin change there groups accessibility from private to public. This way the groups pages will get cached by google and hopefully will provide some nofollow backlinks. Not sure though. Okay, Fine, Mimo; I will try this technique you have shared here about getting the benefits of SEO with the help of LinkedIn. And so thanks a lot for sharing this info here. u can also create a company in linked
that's also providing an anchor tag friend linkedin is a website where the professionals exchange their knowledge. it is just a type relationship sites where business man create relation with each other for business purpose I have read a lot about Social Media Optimization (SMO) recently but they all seem to be about using social networking @B2Bexpert in the profile you can give your give max 3 links of your site and put main keywords in company name, site name and blog url. Try to active on the Linkedin. It Google counts as a backlinks the profile link it is true for my site google is counting the linkedin profile as backlink.

It is not good for SMO, good for traffic & backlink also. Your profile can be an excellent source of SEO friendly links because:
- Linkedin has great authority in Google
- Your website links can be given unique anchor text with the dofollow attribute
- Your LinkedIn profile can have highly relevant content relative to the websites you own So you can get a dofollow quality backlink from LinkedIN easily and you have Ad Campaigns and Groups to help you further your business.Nice tips ! Thanks ! Quote: Originally Posted by TammyII - Your website links can be given unique anchor text with the dofollow attribute plz tell me how do u figure out if a link is dofollow or nofollow as far as social networking and social bookmarking sites are concerned ? its easy to figure out on blogs using rel='external' but how to figure out on linkedin..lplz do let me know
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Quote: Originally Posted by gingerlyspicy plz tell me how do u figure out if a link is dofollow or nofollow as far as social networking and social bookmarking sites are concerned ? its easy to figure out on blogs using rel='external' but how to figure out on linkedin..lplz do let me know
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I am using search status add-on on my browser to determine which links are dofollow or not... you can try it.
 
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