How to Get Do-Follow Links on LinkedIn

LinkedIn sponsored a town hall meeting with President Obama on September 2011.

Google created a link specification known as "nofollow," which directs automatic page ranking algorithms to ignore a link or page. The opposite of a no-follow link is a do-follow link, which is to say that there's nothing preventing the link from being crawled by search engines. The more high-quality links a site has, the greater its page rank will be with the search engines, so do-follow links from large sites like LinkedIn are valuable assets for sites. Add links to your sites through your LinkedIn profile to create the do-follow links.

Instructions

1. Browse to linkedin.com and create an account or enter your username and password. If you're creating a new account, step through the account creation process. You'll be asked to locate contacts. You can click the "Skip this Step" link, if you want and add the contacts later.

2. Click the "Profile" link in the top bar and then click "Edit Profile." Click "Add a Website" and you're redirected to the Additional Information page for your profile.

3. Click "Other" from the drop-down menu for the first website. Type in the URL for your site and type in the name of the site. Repeat for up to three sites. Click "Save Changes."

References

• Google: About Rel="nofollow"
• Christy Correll: How to Get Two “Do-Follow” Links from LinkedIn in Under Five Minutes