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LinkedIn As A Resume For The Self Employed

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Real Estate Agents may not be aware of this... we're kinda in the B2B business!

To gather Geographical Google Juice... it's to YOUR advantage to have as many local-to-you contacts as humanly possible... what better way to do this than to use LinkedIn

HR people and Professional Head Hunters scour LinkedIn to scout new talent, that's an established fact... therefore if you're looking for a job, you'd be foolish to not make sure your LinkedIn profile is up to snuf.

What exactly IS LinkdedIn?

What is LinkedIn

From LinkedIn.com's site:

Establish your professional profile

LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn gives you the keys to controlling your online identity. Have you Googled yourself lately? You never know what may come up. LinkedIn profiles rise to the top of search results, letting you control the first impression people get when searching for you online.

Image Source LinkedIn.com

With the economy on the rebound more than a few managers who have been NOT getting the pay increases they've become accustomed to receiving are now looking around to see what job opportunities are out there. If you have a resume and are searching for a job, you'd be foolish to not add your resume to LinkedIn.

You want your resume where the talent scouts are looking!

LinkedIn for the self employed

For employees LinkedIn is clearly a good thing to participate in, for the self employed it's a MUST DO.

It is possible to improve your ranking within LinkedIn, you need to hang your shingle out in as many places as possible, connecting with other professionals in YOUR field boosts your ranking within LinkedIn.

Connect with me, David Bruce Jr, here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marylandsearchenginemarketing

So how does this tie into a local SEO blog?

Fact A) Google considers Linkedin HOT

Fact B) Any domain that is trending in Google traffic is someplace you want YOUR companies link listed on.

LinkedIn also has company profiles

LinkedIn Company Profile

An SEO "optimizes" not only a companies website, but also "optimizes" the social networking profiles for a company. What does that mean?
You have your company on Facebook? fine, did you know you can improve your ranking WITHIN Facebook?
You have your company on LinkedIn? fine, did you know you can improve your ranking WITHIN LInkedIn?

Any SEO worth his or her salt will "optimize" your companies profiles so said company profile will rank in Google right alongside the companies main website listing in Google

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Local Google Advertising Strategist David Bruce Jr of Frederick Web Promotions

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Brian Doubleday
Brian Doubleday - IML RealEstate - Orange County, CA Broker - Ladera Ranch, CA
Ladera Ranch, Foothill Ranch, Lake Forest, Mission Viejo

Great post David, very useful information & very relevant to ActiveRain

Mar 14, 2011 01:30 PM
David Bruce, Jr.
Frederick Web Promotions - Frederick, MD
Local SEO Apex Predator

Thanks Brian, so do you have a LinkedIn profile for us to connect together with?

Mine is http://www.linkedin.com/in/marylandsearchenginemarketing

I chose a vanity url for my personal LI profile

My company LinkedIn is

http://www.linkedin.com/company/frederick-web-promotions

 

In SEO Links Are Currency

In Social Media Connections Are Currency

Mar 14, 2011 04:39 PM
Linda Scofield
Toccoa, GA

David - You always have something good to share. I didn't know you could get a vanity url for linkedin. Does that help in rankings also?

Mar 15, 2011 01:01 AM
Mike Jones
SUNSTREET MORTGAGE, LLC (BK-0907366, NMLS 145171) - Tucson, AZ
Mike Jones NMLS 223495

David,

Just visited LinkedIn and sent you an invitation to connect.

Mike in Tucson

Mar 15, 2011 12:00 PM
Judith Belt
Frederick Web Promotions - Frederick, MD

When David has journalist interns working for him (actually he's teaching them for free), he counsels them to develop thier LinkedIn pages... then David does SEO for the interns LinkedIn page.

Some of them have gotten freelance technical writing job offers from around the country.

I can see now that LinkedIn can be very valualble for employees.

@Mike Jones, Sunstreet Mortgage LLC, do you have a company LinkedIn profile for us to follow?

Mar 19, 2011 07:50 AM
Paul Gapski
Berkshire Hathaway / Prudential Ca Realty - El Cajon, CA
619-504-8999,#1 Resource SD Relo

Yes its so important to use social media now and LInkedIn is a great way to build referrals and make you look professional. there are a lot of linkedin groups to learn from too.

Mar 28, 2011 05:00 PM
David Bruce, Jr.
Frederick Web Promotions - Frederick, MD
Local SEO Apex Predator

Yes Linda Scofield, having a vanity url for your LinkedIn profile most definitely boosts your SEO rankings: especially now that LinkedIn is HOT (a year ago it wasn't so hot, neither was twitter... it's back influencing rankings as well)

google my name, my full name, and you'll see, in order of what Google considers THE most important links to describe me:

My Blogger Profile (that oughta tell you something about what Google thinks of it's own blogging platform), and my LinkedIn profile (among the FB profile, company FB page, twitter etc)

by using a vanity url, I'm branding my name with what I do: regional seo and Maryland SEO

Mar 30, 2011 04:43 PM
David Bruce, Jr.
Frederick Web Promotions - Frederick, MD
Local SEO Apex Predator

Hey Mike Jones... want me to help you embellish and flesh out your LinkedIn profile?

Ask me to do so on my company FB page

Mar 30, 2011 04:44 PM