10 ways to get more traffic using LinkedIn.

Posted on March 2nd, 2010. Written by Jamie Northrup.

I came across an interesting article on ProBlogger, it was actually a guest post by Lewis Howes, titled “Top 10 ways to drive traffic to your blog using LinkedIn”. Of course I’ve been a member of LinkedIn for quite a while now, but never really spent much time over there, would just stop in whenever I got new connection requests and poke around, probably like much of you.

Well coming across this interesting article, I decided to give it a shot and I followed each of the 10 ways as follows:

1. Complete your profile: This didn’t take too long as most of my profile was complete, however there was some updating to do, including creating my company’s profile.
2. Increase Your Connections: I did this by checking the suggestions and finding people I knew, also by checking my current connections for people I know. I figure this is something I should take a habit of doing whenever I do business with someone is to check if they are on LinkedIn and add them.
3. Customize Your Website Links: I updated this, took 2 seconds, but can definitely see how it could be a good change.
4. Answer Questions: This is something that will take a little bit longer to do, but just like participating in a forum or commenting on other websites and blogs, it can be well worth it in the end.
5. Update Status: I didn’t update this as my Twitter stream is already linked to my LinkedIn status.
6. Join Niche Groups: I joined my first group called The Blog Zone, will see how that goes and probably join more.
7. Post Comments in Groups: I still have to be approved to the first group to be able to do this, but like number 4, I can see the rewards of it.
8. Add RSS Feed to Groups: This is a great feature that I didn’t know existed and will definitely do this, for all my sites, in the correct groups of course.
9. Create a Group: I’m not sure if I will set this up, and if so should I go with a group about a subject, a group of people or just about my website. Can be interesting, will have to look into it more though.
10. Add the Blog Application to Your Profile: I believe this was one of the first things I did when I knew it existed a while back, but it is definitely one of the top things to do.

I have to say, I didn’t complete all 10 in my first shot, but I have spent nearly an hour playing with LinkedIn and it’s way more interesting and powerful than I thought.

It may not be Facebook, but Alexa ranks it at the 35th most visited website, 17th in the United States, so it’s definitely worth putting some time into it.

View my personal profile here: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/deucegroup

View my company profile here: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/849405

Jamie Northrup

I am the founder of the Deuce Group, I have been working online since 1995 in one form or another. Hope you enjoy the articles I provide here and to learn more about me click my name above and see my personal website/blog, JamieNorthrup.com !

7 Responses »

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   Marquis Grinde

   March 3, 2010 • 2:41 am

   I really enjoy what you post here, very fresh and smart. One issue though, I’m running Firefox on Ubuntu and some of your layout pieces are a little wonky. I realize it’s not a common setup, but it’s still something to watch out for. Just shooting you a heads up.

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     Jamie

     March 3, 2010 • 6:12 am

     Thanks Marquis, I will look into that.

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   Jared M

   March 16, 2010 • 4:09 am

   Hey, great article! My name is Jared and I recently started my own traffic exchange website to try and help my fellow webmasters increase the popularity and rank of their websites. Take a look and tell me what you think. Thanks! http://freetraffictidalwave.com

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     Jamie

     March 16, 2010 • 7:21 am

     Hi Jared,

     I will check it out.

     Thanks,
     Jamie

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   Michale Mccade

   March 17, 2010 • 11:39 am

   Indeed a great topic to read and learn about too. Thanks bud

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