LinkedIn Profile: Do You Look Like a Spammer?
June 29th, 2011 | by Jason Alba |As a Group admin I get to approve requests to join my LinkedIn group. Every time I do it I always skip a few … usually those that LinkedIn warns me about.
There are two things that jump out at me that make me think the person/account/Profile isn’t a real person… you can easily fix both… check it out:
The first thing is NO PICTURE. I once heard a recruiter say “if you don’t have your picture up, I wonder what else you are hiding.” Very interesting.
The second thing, which is something that sets off a LinkedIn alarm, is having 0 or 1 connection. Get some contacts and you look less like a spammer! I know many of you are just starting out, but get some contacts 
