Are People Even on Linkedin Looking at the Feed
Authors note: (March 2020) - I wrote and published this article 3 years ago now. And while some of the sources LinkedIn lists have changed - I now see "interesting views", though LinkedIn does not explain how my viewers obtain "interesting" status - the concepts I talk about in this article are still valid. Thanks for reading.
Interesting insights can be found in the oddest places on LinkedIn
Who Viewed Your Profile remains one of the favorite features on LinkedIn. Yet did you ever stop to check out how these people came to view your profile in the first place? I did and was surprised at what I found.
I have a premium LinkedIn account, an old grandfathered (ie: relatively cheap) Sales Navigator subscription. I look at who viewed my profile every day. People who view your profile are potential connections. Potential customers. Potential suppliers. Potential partners. Potential employers. If there is someone interesting in there that I don't know or haven't contacted under another pretext, I will do so.
LinkedIn provides some statistics in my Who Viewed Your Profile screen. A slider across the top of the page shows companies that my viewers come from, and the most common titles they have, along with how they found you on LinkedIn.
From day to day these results don't change much. If I had more viewers from Accenture than anywhere else between Nov 1 and Jan 29, sliding that 90 day window one day to Nov 2 to Jan 30 isn't going to change that much. But the other day I noticed that that the last entry, the "how they found you" one had changed...and indeed changed almost every day. So I started tracking it to see what it said about people finding me.
LinkedIn says the "how they found me" feature is available on free LinkedIn as well.
Here's a screen capture:
Over the course of a couple of weeks, a bunch of different ways people had found me showed up. LinkedIn informed me that my profile viewers were finding me via:
Homepage 47% (of all my profile viewers)
Messaging 5%
My network 3%
LinkedIn search 2%
People similar to you 1%
Company pages less than 1%
(These percentages add up to less than 60%, as LinkedIn admits that they can't figure out where some people are coming from.)
So what do these statistics tell me? Two things.
Appearing in lots of LinkedIn Search Results doesn't mean very much
In a recent 90 day period, only 16 people who looked at my profile came there via LinkedIn Search. That's just over one a week.
But in the separate "Search Appearances" feature on my profile, LinkedIn tells me that I am appearing in hundreds of search results every week. Here is what LinkedIn told me for last week.
So I may be in the search results in hundreds of searches every week, but almost none of those searchers are actually coming to look at my profile.
So appearing in search results doesn't lead to many profile views. What does?
Activity on LinkedIn leads to profile views. Lots of profile views
A lot of people see me on their homepage and then go look at my profile. In the screen cap at the beginning of this article 373 people found me coming from their homepage versus the 16 that found me via search.
My home page drives 23 times more people to my profile than LinkedIn search (47% of all profile views versus...2%).
Publishing, sharing, commenting, liking or getting mentioned results in profile views. Many many more profile views than people finding me via search.
When I looked at those people who had found me through their homepage, I found 70% of them were second and third degree connections. People I don't know are finding me on LinkedIn because I am active on LinkedIn. They are not finding me through LinkedIn search, they are finding me because of my activity on LinkedIn.
I suggest you go check out your own "People found you via" statistics and see what they say about you.
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Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/where-your-linkedin-profile-viewers-come-from-you-might-johnston
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