Mistakes When Sharing Your LinkedIn Profile (2 of 2)
June 6th, 2011 | by Jason Alba |Here’s the other problem I see when people think they are sharing a link to their LinkedIn Profile. I see this about 40% of the time.
When you share your LinkedIn Profile URL with someone, many times you go into LinkedIn, click on Profile (top menu option) and then copy and paste the URL in the URL box to the person you are sending it to -this one:
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The problem is, that isn’t the right URL. If you email that to someone, and they click on it, they should go to THEIR OWN profile. Kind of funny, to send someone to THEIR OWN profile :p
If I mouse over PROFILE, and then click on View Profile, the link has some unique identifier (which so far has been what order you signed up - you can see in this account I’m member number 5,108,340). That should take people to the right place.
But the link you normally should send people to is down below, in your Profile, called the Public Profile (URL):
This link looks cleaner, and it will take the person right to your URL (but they still have to click on the View Full Profile button to see it all, EVEN if they are logged in :s).
