It is the first page you see when you first log into LinkedIn and displays posts published by your LinkedIn connections (mostly) and LinkedIn Company Pages that you follow.

The LinkedIn homepage has undergone reformatting changes in its time, but its purpose remains the same. It’s worth noting that if the person who visited your profile has their profile viewing options in their privacy settings set to anonymous, you won’t see that they have found your profile from the LinkedIn homepage. This means that someone found your LinkedIn profile after clicking on your name from a post, comment, or any link that appeared on their LinkedIn homepage feed. My ‘Who’s Viewed Your Profile’ Glossary ‘Found you via Homepage’: There are other features similar to ‘Found You Via LinkedIn Search’ too. I know people who have their profile taken down as a result of making this error! It is technically against LinkedIn’s terms of service too, so be very careful if you decide to be clever with your name field. You’re only as searchable as you are accessible! I strongly believe that adding miscellaneous data to your name field will make you less likely to be found, so I don’t encourage it. This is why it is important to make sure your LinkedIn name is accurate and reflective of your actual name, as opposed to a nickname. LinkedIn is, just as Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms are, a type of search engine or database after all. It means someone found you after specifically searching for your name in the LinkedIn search bar. But in summary, on the free version of LinkedIn, you only get to see the last five people who have viewed your profile.īut what does ‘Found You Via LinkedIn Search’ actually mean? I address the question, should I get LinkedIn Premium in another post. You can see more people who have viewed your profile if you pay for LinkedIn Premium. You’ve seen it often, I’m sure? When you scroll to the ‘Your Dashboard’ section on your LinkedIn Profile and click on the blue number above ‘Who viewed your profile’, you’ll see who’s viewed your profile and, in italics, how they found you.

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