LinkedIn Search May Need Some Help
Ian Lurie Dec 27 2012
I love LinkedIn, but either someone’s playing a joke on me, or my kids are getting to have a say in their rankings, or something’s really wrong. I currently rank number one for the word ‘pest’:
For ‘internet marketing,’ on the other hand, I’m not even in the top 10.
My daughter just said, when shown the evidence, “Well, actually, it’s pretty obvious.”
Uh-huh.
Ian Lurie
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Ian Lurie is CEO and founder of Portent Inc. He's recorded training for Lynda.com, writes regularly for the Portent Blog and has been published on AllThingsD, Forbes.com and TechCrunch. Ian speaks at conferences around the world, including SearchLove, MozCon, SIC and ad:Tech. Follow him on Twitter at portentint. He also just published a book about strategy for services businesses: One Trick Ponies Get Shot, available on Kindle. Read More
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I figured it out….=)
Checked out my own search for pest your number 4 xD with my closer connections that mention pest on their page being ranked above you, along with a guy who has the word mentioned 70 times.
I did an experiment and typed in an uncommon search phrase that is on my own profile into search: “creative outside” and I came up number 1, with my closest connections behind me.
If i check off 3rd+ everyone else, I do not show up, and incidentally, you do not show up for pest =P
So, it seems that if you have an uncommon phrase or word in your profile, and you search that word, you will come up first for that search result, with the next results being the next closest connections you have…unless you search outside of 1st and 2nd connections…