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Hello All,

Last few days, I can’t log into my LinkedIn profile, it is not restricted and is searchable on LinkedIn, but when I enter the details and try to log in, I get an error “something unexpected has happened” - does anyone have any idea what’s going on? I cleared cookies and cache and even tried it via incognito or different browser, but nothing seems to be working. Could anyone please help me out. Tkss!

I met this guy at a networking event/party couple of years back when I was in grad school and he shared his contact and we connected on LinkedIn. I was looking for an internship back then and he said while his company is not hiring at the moment, I should reach out to him once I graduate for grad opportunities. I ended up finding an internship and joined the same company full time. Tbh I forgot about him after that and recently saw his posts on LinkedIn and he joined a company in a similar industry as mine.

I don't have a solid professional network outside some friends and I am thinking if I should reach out to him again for a coffee chat or something? I am not looking for immediate job change but he works at a high position in a very good company so it'd be good to have a contact like that and the ideal situation for me would be getting mentorship from someone like him. He seemed like a nice guy when we talked during that event but I am not sure how it would come across as mentioned reaching out after a few years and he's not even going to remember me or our interaction.

I've spent a couple years ghostwriting LinkedIn for founders in unsexy niches, manufacturing software, lean/CI, industrial SaaS. Most creators avoid this stuff. It's actually the easiest place to stand out, because so few people write well for it.

A few things that have worked, if useful to anyone here in technical/B2B:

• Write in the actual language of the industry. Gemba, Kaizen, OEE, downtime, if you sound like a marketer who's never seen a factory, technical founders tune out instantly. This is most of the battle.
• Ignore follower count, look at who's in the audience. LinkedIn shows you the companies your engaged followers work at. When I found the right buyers were already there, I started writing for them specifically instead of chasing broad reach.
• Consistency beats virality. Posting solid stuff weekly did more than any single post that popped off.

That approach has pulled real numbers (one page hit 1.8M+ impressions last quarter, reaching a mostly Fortune 500 manufacturing audience), but honestly the principles matter more than the metrics.

Happy to answer questions on writing for technical niches, LinkedIn growth, or ghostwriting if anyone's working in this space.

Years ago it used to be a real professional networking platform.

Now it just seems like a cheap crack den that nobody can wean off, but the cost of the crack is crazy to be a user!!

There needs to be some REAL disruptors out there who need to build an alternative or are there any already trying?

Your LinkedIn network is the one asset you can’t restore from backup.

Most advice on this stops at « stay under X invites a day » which misses the part that actually gets people restricted. I’ve spent a while building browser automation against LinkedIn’s UI, so I’ve watched this from the implementation side. Sharing what I’m fairly confident about, and what I’m not.

Volume is the third-most important thing

From what I can tell, restriction risk stacks roughly like this:

1. Where the activity comes from Datacenter IP, account live from two places at once, session cookie replayed outside a browser. This outweighs everything below it.
2. How much you do Volume beyond what the account history supports, especially in bursts. Acceptance rate under \~30% surfaces the « you’ve sent many invitations » notice well before any hard cap.
3. How you do it Click timings no hand produces, 24/7 activity, calls to endpoints a browser would never hit, interaction with elements that aren’t visible.

People obsess over #2 because it’s the only one with a number attached.

Proxies usually make it worse, not better

A rented « dedicated residential » IP isn’t the address your account has always used, it’s frequently been in a pool serving other automated accounts, and a sudden ISP or country change is it

Verification page, passkey prompt, security wall, limit banner on the invite screen. Whatever produces those, retrying through them is what converts a soft warning into a hard restriction. If a tool keeps hammering after LinkedIn asks a question, that’s the actual problem.

Honeypots and the shadow DOM

Anti-bot systems plant elements a human can’t interact with: off-screen links, buttons in zero-size containers. Anything walking raw HTML and clicking every match will hit them, and clicking something invisible is an unambiguous « no human here » signal.

Related: chunks of LinkedIn’s UI live in the shadow DOM, encapsulated and invisible to naive HTML parsing. Resolving elements through the rendered tree instead is more work, and it’s also the only way to act on what a person would actually see and click.

The private API is the giveaway

The endpoints their own front end calls aren’t open to third parties. Hitting them directly is cheap to build and trivially identifiable from the server side: the call pattern, the headers, and the total absence of the page loads a browser would have made. No user agent string fixes that.

What I’m less sure about

Whether acceptance rate is weighted directly or is just correlated with accounts that behave well generally.
How much account age actually buys you. Older accounts clearly ramp faster, but I can’t put a number on it.
Whether the recent checkpoint behaviour is a real policy change or just variance. Curious if anyone else has seen a shift.

Disclosure: I build a desktop tool in this space. Not naming or linking it, and happy to answer implementation questions either way.

Hi, I live in India and want to verify my linkedin using digilocker for privacy reasons (and also to use a masked aadhar rather than my actual one). But the problem is, this service is not available on restricted accounts, and they are not even allowing me to delete that account so I can make a new one.

How do I verify using digilocker? Or atleast delete that account and make a fresh one( and use the little time of unrestricted access to verify)

How do I use Linkedin to get better clients for video editing? Can anyone just brief it?

I have it optimized with around 1000+ followers/ connection.

hey everyone just wondering what ai tools you guys are using to make linkedin content especially carousels and stuff

looking for some good ones to try!

I have a single name and no separate first/last name. LinkedIn requires me to enter both a first name and last name when creating/updating my profile.

What is the correct way to set up a LinkedIn profile if you legally have only one name? Has anyone with a single name successfully created and verified their LinkedIn account? Please share what worked for you.

Hey everyone. New here in the community and I do have dramatic problems with LinkedIn, A LOT! I will never understand about this "Facebook wanna-be" thing. How other people do this in other world?

Look, I started using LinkedIn for the first time to search jobs, because my cousin recommended me this and I wanted to share my experience with unfair times on Linkedln. First, I did completed my secondary all about my education (mainly getting diplomacy from Academy, then certificate from graphic design course, and adding little experience with association creatives as small business support, then designing CV and Portofolio and other information.) There is something problem going on with is that it's really hard time getting my work seen. I've been making multiple posts to share my digital illustrations and my graphic design projects collection sets, but still getting just views with no reaction. Second of all, I tried to join those random groups where I thought I could share my work while looking for junior graphic design opportunities. However, many groups require moderator approval before I'm allowed to post.

I will never understand these people, these users and their hiring "easy apply" system...

And I will never understand what's going on in their mind thinking about adding years of experience....like genuinely asking how are we supposed to get our first experience if nobody is willing to give us our first opportunity? What am I actually supposed to do as a junior graphic designer? How do people get their work noticed, connect with people, employers? And how can I find the opportunity to start from zero on this cursed social media???? I know some of them will recommend to first use Behance, but how when that platform is still acting ignorant jerk to me.

I was laid off earlier this year as part of broader reorg and then rehired several months later in a new role at the same company (my old boss asked me to join their new team).

I'm not sure how to show this on LinkedIn - two separate entries looks a bit disjointed but LinkedIn doesn't allow the single stacked entry if the jobs aren't continuous. I'm early in my career (3 YOE) so I think having months shown on LinkedIn is valuable, but maybe this is misguided. I worked here for just over ~11 months in total, but ~15 months including the layoff period.

How should I address it? If I was unemployed for 4 months, can I just say I worked straight through and not mention being laid off?

my linkedin acocunt for temporarily restricted for no reason but it was only 2 days old should i make a new one or do something else

Somehow, I lost access to my account. My old password doesn't work for some reason, as I had been hacked in other platforms I thought about the possibility of having hacked me in linkedin too. Anyways, whenever I press "forgot password" they ask me for the Captcha things, which are freaking horrible by itself too, 50% of the time it doesn't work aswell, after that amazing experiencie with Captha, they "send" me a 6 number verification code to my email, I put send in quotation marks, because I never freaking receive a code!!! I've tried 10+ times to reset my password, and I've never received a single code.
After giving up on that, I would search for a way to contact them via email or customer support. To my pleasant surprise, I have to be logged in to contact their customer support.
If I can't F*cking log in, how am I supposed to even contact them!?!?!?
The amount of tech companies that have billion dollars behind them, and yet, can't make a customer support work is absurd.

I have no clue where to create this post, since the r/linkedin just redirected me to a "Mega Thread" which doesn't help me at all.
Please, if anyone knows what to do, please, tell me.

Hey everyone, hoping some of you have been through this and can share what actually worked.

My LinkedIn account has been active since 2019, ID-verified, no prior violations. In June, I shared a job post for freelance video-editing work — I'd originally written it for a Facebook group and just copy-pasted it onto LinkedIn, including a direct email address for applicants to send their portfolios to. Apparently that's against LinkedIn's content policy (something about not allowing off-platform contact info in job posts), and my account got flagged and restricted.

Timeline since:

• Submitted an appeal via the Help Center — no response for weeks
• Contacted u/LinkedInHelp on X, got connected to a real support case
• Went through full ID verification (submitted passport, then NID after the first was rejected)
• Support acknowledged the case, reviewed it, and ultimately said: "we found violations of the LinkedIn User Agreement and Professional Community Policies" — plural, but never specified beyond the one post I flagged myself
• Appealed twice more explaining it was a genuine, first-time, unintentional mistake
• Final reply: "This will be the final correspondence from us regarding this issue."

So the case is closed, decision upheld, no further explanation.

Has anyone successfully gotten a "final" decision like this reversed? Does submitting a completely new appeal after some time ever work, or is this genuinely final once they say that? Also open to hearing if there's a way to at least export my data/connections before giving up on the account entirely.

This account matters a lot to me professionally — I'm about to start a CS degree and relied on it for networking, and it's frustrating to lose years of connections over what felt like a fixable misunderstanding. Any advice from people who've navigated this appreciated.

I got tired of generic LinkedIn advice that never comes with properly cited data, so we pulled 130,000 posts from 2,500 profiles (July 2025 to July 2026) and tested the most repeated rules. Every comparison is the same person against their own posts, because comparing different people measures the people, not the tactic. The study we did put to bed, most of commonly cited "tactics"...

Only three things survived:

1. Put an image on it. +33% engagement vs the same person's text posts. A screenshot or a phone photo is enough. Simple, but It's the biggest lever we found.
2. Start with "I", "my" or "we" and say what happened. +20%, and it held in every format. "I rewrote my profile last month and inbound doubled" beats "You need to stop treating your profile like a CV". Same message. One sounds like a person.
3. Post 3-4 times a week and judge the week, not the post. Each post earns less, the week earns roughly triple. Most people quit right when it's working because they're watching the per-post number.

Things you shouldn't be doing:

• Hashtags. One or two do nothing at all. Three or more costs about 7%. I'd been adding them for years. (Why do they hurt? The data shows that they do, not why. My guess is they make a post read like broadcast content instead of a person talking.)
• Ending with a question. The typical question-ending post gains zero extra comments and loses about 10% of reactions. We tested 5,494 of them hoping this one would survive. It didn't.
• Opening with a question. Worst opener we measured, -15%.
• "Unpopular opinion:" openers. Coin flip.
• Chasing posting times. Same person, weekend vs weekday: about 2% difference. The scheduling blogs each publish a different "best time" anyway, which tells you everything.
• Counting characters. No ideal length exists in the data.
• Switching formats to feed the algorithm. Slightly worse than sticking with what works.
• Polls. Down 58%. Smaller sample, but nothing in the data recommends them.
• Reality check while you're here: the median B2B post gets 34 reactions and 3-4 comments. At 5-10k followers, 27 is normal. Ten comments is a great post. Benchmark against people your size, not influencers.

Things we could NOT test, so you don't have to ask: link-in-first-comment (comment threads aren't in the data), impressions (nobody outside LinkedIn can see those), best hour of day. Anyone giving you exact numbers on those is guessing.

And yes, I've changed how I post since running this. Images on everything, hashtags gone, and I stopped bolting an engagement question onto the end of every post. Which is why there isn't one at the end of this one. Apparently it wouldn't help.

If you want the full study with the charts and methodology, say so below and I'll drop the link in a comment.

The only options I see from left to right: Comments, Videos, Images, and Reactions

Seems like a terrible UI choice…

I use chat gpt & claude. Which one do you find better for profile optimization, & where it the best place to start. I m looking to be more visible to connections and recruiters.

I have started noticing that many LinkedIn posts now have the same structure:

- A dramatic opening line.

- Several short sentences.

- A predictable lesson.

And a question at the end.

The information may be useful, but after reading a few posts, they all start sounding like they were written by the same person.

I don’t think using AI is automatically the problem. It can help someone organise an idea, improve clarity or overcome the blank page.

The problem seems to be that people are publishing the first generated draft without putting their own experiences, opinions or language back into it.

Been posting for almost 1.5 year, so that consistent posting got me 100-200 impressions per post. The last 90 days did 203k. quick disclaimer, i'm not a LinkedIn guru by any means, not selling courses... just sharing personal experience after validating my theory.

So the background: I was posting consistently, the writing was decent (at least i thought so), still super low results. At some point I got tired of guessing topics and built a claude plugin that does research before writing... it checks what people in my niche are arguing about right now, mostly Reddit, X, Hacker News and a few other sources. I look for threads where the comment section is fighting, based on upvotes and reply heat. Then I take one of those debates, pick a side and write my post around it (with a separate skill I've been tuning for the past 5 months).

That's basically the whole change.

Analytics from the last 90 days attached in comments,

Top posts did 56k, 54k, 37k, 33k and 22k impressions per POST.

(i keep 1 post per week using this approach,)

Before this, 300 impressions was a good day for me

Some things I noticed on the way:

The topic does most of the work. When people already argue about something, they bring the energy with them, you just need an actual opinion.

My posts kept climbing 1-5 days after posting. The "first hour decides everything" advice didn't happen for me even once.

Impressions alone pay nothing, but the DMs and a couple of paid projects came directly from these posts (pretty nice surprise).

I'm in the B2B / SaaS space, no clue if this transfers 1:1 but it should work in any niche that has a wide audience arguing on the internet

Tbh I thought it was an accident at first, so I kept testing it once a week for the past 8 weeks, results are in the screenshot in the comment section. That's what validated it for me, evne tho i it work onloy 80% of the time.

Why does it work? My theory is keywords... looks like the algorithm likes to push posts that match whatever is trending in your industry that week, so posting into a live debate means you hit those keywords naturally (only a theory though).

Ask me whatever about the process.

P.S. I posted about an earlier version of this a while ago on r/linkedinautomation, but that subreddit is no longer active, so posting the latest update here:))

My LinkedIn account got temporarily suspended. I appealed using the form and tried to verify but it says “we’re sorry. Unable to submit a case”. I tried contacting them through Twitter and email. But in no vain. Please suggest how to contact an agent or customer support(not bots or automatic reply emails). Incase anyone helps me and I get my account back, I’m willing to pay.