updated on 2023.12
- Understand your Linkedin Account Preferences
- The most important things to know and update in your Linkedin settings
- đ¤Â ACCOUNT PREFERENCES
- General preferences
- đď¸Â VISIBILITY
- Visibility of your profile & network
- Visibility of your LinkedIn activity
- đĄď¸Â DATA PRIVACY
- Who can reach you
- Messaging experience
- Job seeking preferences
- đ NOTIFICATIONS
- Notifications you receive (Push, In-app and Email)
- Invitations to connect: you can allow connection requests to only people who know your email and make Follow primary
- Messages: you can disallow others to send you Inmails, only connections will be able to message you
- Profile viewing options: Use Private Mode to view othersâ profiles without them knowing
- Notifications: Turn some or all notifications off (Push, email and on Linkedin)
Understand your Linkedin Account Preferences
The Account preferences section allows you to manage your account settings, such as adding email addresses, changing your password or language, and other account management options.
To access your LinkedIn account settings:
- Click the âMeâ icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage.
- Select Settings & Privacy from the dropdown.
- On the left rail, you will find six sections to help you easily view and modify your account information, privacy preferences, ads settings, and communication notifications.
- đ¤Â Account preferences: Manage your basic profile information for your LinkedIn experience, networking, subscriptions, and more.
- đ Sign in & security: Manage the settings that keep your account secure.
- đď¸Â Visibility: Control who can see your profile, network, and LinkedIn activity.
- đĄď¸Â Data Privacy: Configure privacy and security settings related to how LinkedIn uses your data, job seeking preferences, and other applications. Youâre also able to manage your messages and download your account data.
- đŻÂ Advertising data: Control the information that LinkedIn uses to show you relevant ads by adjusting your accountâs ads settings.
- đ Notifications: Enable or disable the types of notifications you want to receive and how often you wish to receive them.
Under the đ¤Â Account preferences section on the left rail, youâll find the following sub-sections on the Account preferences section:
- Profile information â Basic information associated with your profile.
- General Preferences - Choose how you want the site to work for you with your language preference, your feed, showing videos, and more.
- Syncing options â Using the information you have to make networking easier.
- Subscriptions and payments - View your purchase history and upgrade your account, if applicable.
- Partners and services - Control third party services youâve authorized.
- Account management - Merge multiple accounts or close your account, if applicable.
The most important things to know and update in your Linkedin settings
đ¤Â ACCOUNT PREFERENCES
General preferences
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Your main goal is to keep your profile viewers as long as possible so they can learn about you and what you can offer. Turning off to stop Linkedin visitors to be shown a list of other profiles, which could distract them or get to click to leave your profile and see someone elseâs
âPeople also viewedâ is shown on the right end side of every profile by default and offers relevant profiles for viewers to keep browsing.
Ironically, it can offer viewers to visit people outside your organization or even competitors. In this instance, the CEO of Amazon
đď¸Â VISIBILITY
Visibility of your profile & network
Your goal is to generate views of your profile so people can get to know you and your services better. Letting them know you visited their profile might lead them to visit yours.
Choose Private mode if you are secretly viewing or searching for people on Linkedin, and you donât want to let them know. For example, when checking candidates or competitors.
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The more information from your Linkedin is public, the more likely your Linkedin profile will rank in first position on Google.
Profiles with photo get 14x more views.
Make sure your photo is visible and public, even to people you are not connected to.
You might have one but set on private or only visible to connections as per examples below and you wont notice so make sure you check.
Visibility of your LinkedIn activity
If you are working on your personal brand or thought leadership, the goal is to grow an audience.
Reduce the number of unwanted connection requests by replacing the âconnectâ button with the âfollowâ button and making it easy for viewers to follow you
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đĄď¸Â DATA PRIVACY
Who can reach you
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Turn ON, if you in a role (like sales) where you have to make it easy for people to reach you
Turn OFF, when you want to decrease the volume of messages you get. For example, HR or C-level roles
Messaging experience
Job seeking preferences
đ NOTIFICATIONS
Notifications you receive (Push, In-app and Email)
Turn On at first. Then, you can fine-tune and turn off irrelevant ones depending on your role, seniority or how you want to use Linkedin.
Here are the few ones we recommend turning ON depending on your situation.
Connecting with others:
Messaging (if you are in sales or recruitment)
Pages (if you are in marketing)
Posting and commenting (if you are getting serious about posting, personal branding and thought leadership)
Searching for a job
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