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LinkedIn today announced new tools and features that should help make creators more visible, discoverable, and followable. You must have Creator Mode turned on and a public profile to access these features.
Here’s what’s new.
1. Follow from the feed. Whenever someone sees your content in their feed, and you aren’t a 1st connection, LinkedIn will now give them the option to follow you, without leaving the feed. In addition to showing a Follow button, LinkedIn will prompt users to follow creators to see more of their posts and provide information about what they talk about.
Here’s what it looks like:
2. Follow from search. If you haven’t added any relevant hashtags to your creator profile, make sure to do so. That’s because now, whenever LinkedIn users search for a company or topic, they will be able to see people who regularly talk about those topics. And make sure you’re post about relevant topics that matter to you.
Here’s what it looks like:
Key search stat: 18% of all follows on LinkedIn happen via search.
3. Get new followers from other platforms. LinkedIn will soon let creators generate a link that you can share or embed on other websites or in emails. Anyone who clicks that link will then be able to follow you on LinkedIn. This will become available in the “coming weeks.”
4. Get followers from connection requests. Whenever someone sends you a LinkedIn connection request, that person will automatically become one of your followers and
Read more here: https://searchengineland.com/linkedin-creator-new-tools-followers-visibility-385661