PageRank Addicts Need LinkedIn
Guy Kawasaki, who’s mantra is to “empower entrepreneurs”, included improving your Google PageRank as one of the ways on how to use LinkedIn. LinkedIn, dubbed as MySpace for adults, is what I consider as one of the most popular method to control one’s online identity. How? Sign up and create your LinkedIn profile and wait a few weeks and then search for your name and you will know.
I think this is the very reason why Guy finds LinkedIn helpful in improving one’s pagerank. However, I think he means one’s Google search engine results pages visibility. PageRank is different from SERPs placement since one does not have to have a high pagerank to gain better search engine placement.
See how he puts it:
LinkedIn allows you to make your profile information available for search engines to index. Since LinkedIn profiles receive a fairly high PageRank in Google, this is a good way to influence what people see when they search for you.
Also, Guy mentioned improving your search engine results as another benefit of LinkedIn.
In addition to your name, you can also promote your blog or website to search engines like Google and Yahoo! Your LinkedIn profile allows you to publicize websites. There are a few pre-selected categories like “My Website,? “My Company,? etc.
I am not sure about the Google juice that a LinkedIn profile sends to sites you include since I have already posted this blog on my LinkedIn profile but Google still has not indexed it.
Read more of the other 8 ways how to use LinkedIn according to Guy Kawasaki.
January 18th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Actually, I don’t think that they warn about this sometimes unwanted publicity, cause I’ve registered there for about a year ago and was very surprised to see my name avaliable for all in google pages
January 19th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Moebel,
You mean you don’t want publicity? Some people join social networks like LinkedIn because of that publicity.
You can always change your profile.