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LinkedIN, how to use who’s viewed your profile

Even if Linkedin is still missing a true and useful data insight for our network, it seems it’s moving on the road of offering more and more functionalities able to find out your potential contacts. The new WHO’S VIEWED YOUR PROFILE WHO’S VIEWED YOUR PROFILE is the useful feature helping to discover new potential contacts. Originally the features gave you a list in reverse chronological order of latest visits your profile received, the frequency of visits and appearing in search. Premium accounts could also see aggregated data about industry and location (if available). Since some weeks, a new layout with new insights has been released. The enhancements bring a interactive graph of the previous data. The main section gives you an instant pic of what’s happened in last 3 months: the number of total views, shown with a weekly graph and a weekly change expressed as percentage. Each point in the graph shows you how many people looked at you profile and, clicking on it, you can gain the list of people seeing your profile on that day. Previously the same information was available but not in an interactive way. The section “Viewers who searched for first name” shows people who reached your profile by a your name direct search through the search box and gives you the amount and the list of people reached you with that tool. Drilling down into this function, we can discover all the sources used by “viewers” to reach our profile. Those sources are classified as: Linkedin Search. The query made through the search box at the top of the page or the search tool within Linkedin app. Groups. Who reached you from a group you are member of. Homepage. People who reached you from a post you publish and they saw on their linkedin home page. People similar to you. Viewers who reached you from the “People similar to <name>” list suggested by linkedin when you are visiting a profile. Others. As other source, Linkedin aggregates searches coming from Yahoo, People you may know list and general “unknown” and “other” categories. In the same tab, type of searches and keywords are shown: search by first name search by second name search by summary or job description “Unknown” keywords, telling you how many people reached you without a specific search. Last two tabs give you specific insights about the professional profile of viewers. The third one offers you information about contact’s industry and title. The last one, instead, an aggregated view of companies they’re working for. As early mentioned, each graph is interactive and clicking on a single element you can obtain a list of users included in the aggregated data.   How to use the Who’s viewed your…

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