Linkedin profile severely penalized
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I may have over optimized my linkedin profile...as a result it only shows up for
linkedin + my name (ilya elbert) it does NOT show up for just my name query alone on the first 200 results.
I've removed all my jobs and most of the info and am going to gradually re add things when I get it back - is there anything I can do to speed up the process of reconsideration? I guess I'm new to this over optimization penalty.
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Odd, right? Seems slightly backwards. But you are educated enough on SEO to know all the common sense things...and if those don't work..?!
Then again, you may just not be getting very good advice
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So you're suggesting I drive some links to this profile to see if google deems to worthy again :)? I will try that. Time for some life-story articles about my immigration to america to go on ezines loool.
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I think LinkedIn keeps some of this type of information close to their chest. I'm surprised you may have dropped out (I checked and looked through the search results because it's just odd) since Google is normally so good about making those connections. Then again, you do a lot of work and there's some good competition for your articles and such
Quite frankly, most anything you can find on the Web on this subject is so 101, it's not worth reading. My only suggestion is - can you do some links to it from some of your other sites/postings/whatever to drive traffic and/or raise the visibility to Google? It could be over optimized, so if you are concerned there, that's one set of edits you could address.
(I am clearly not a LinkedIn expert unless it comes to setting up profiles and user tips; the SEO side of how they do things doesn't have much data.)
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Andrea
A few days ago. I did substantial keyword optimization to it. as a business owner I essentially listed 3 different jobs under the same business and then listed myself as having the same position for another business which had an almost identical job description - essentially showing repeating text.
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Hi Ilya,
Are you sure you haven't disabled your public profile by accident? I ask because even when I search linkedin ilya elbert, I don't see your linkedin profile. - Ignore that, just checked again without personalized search and I can see your profile on the bottom of the page.
I can't say that I've ever heard of anyone having their linkedin profile penalized in google search before. Sounds a bit strange to me.
Adam.
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When did you notice this - how long? It can take Google a while to recrawl a LinkedIn profile.
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