Comments on: LinkedIn: Optimizing Your Profile

By: Geoff Andrews

Geoff Andrews — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:21:19 +0000

Nice post… interesting to see how something so simple and readily available as a LinkedIn profile could be used to aid first page domination for your brand…

By: Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:20:41 +0000

Hey Darren, thanks for dropping by and your comments. Interesting, going to have to test your snippet now with some other queries.

Thanks for spotting the canonical tag prob, new to thesis and still taming the beast

By: SEO Mofo

SEO Mofo — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:52:44 +0000

Nice article and thanks for the shout out. =)

Here’s a tip/caveat for anyone thinking about trying to make an ASCII art design with their Meta Description: Google will only use your Meta Description content for the SERP snippet if there is NOT a relevant string of text in the content.

Why does this matter? Because most people will NOT be able to rank well for a given keyword…unless they use that keyword throughout the page. In other words, my fancy snippet shown above will only appear for a small number of branded queries (e.g. [seomofo] and [worlds greatest seo]) and the [site:] search operator.

(BTW…Gareth, you’re the first person I’ve seen with 3 canonical tags in your section. =P )

By: Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:21:36 +0000

Hi Andrea…yer I hear you, just need to find the right balance.

By: Andrea Moro

Andrea Moro — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:08:24 +0000

That’s an interesting article. Even adding these extra “features” to the surname, linkedin search engine is smart enough to find the person.
Also moving the surname into the name area.

I would suggest to don’t use the >> unless you want see them in the final profile unencoded showing an > > that is really orrible.