The LinkedIn reciprocal Visit Strategy update.

Thousands. I've automatically visited thousands of profiles.

How many you ask?

2747, I reply

Wow, that must have massively increased your profile views, you say.

Eh, not really.

To make this 'scientific' I made sure this was the only strategy I employed for 2 weeks.

And, not really much of a boost,

When I didn't employ these strategies and did nothing I was getting about 30 - 40 views a week. Some weeks up to 70, some weeks as low as 20.

With this strategy I had a 40 week, and a 48 week. Which is well within 'normal tolerance'.

Looking at the people who did view my profile... none, were in the list of visited people.

I'm going to conclude that this strategy is 'LinkedIn Guru' hyperbole and let it lie.

So what to do instead?

Well, the one thing it was good for, was seeing what LinkedIn groups my target market was part of.

And I have joined as many of those groups as would let me in.

I have also created more updates and started using the LinkedIn 'post an article' and this week I'm up to 55 views.

Now, I also have to try 'engaging in the groups'

Summary

I conclude that 'content' is a better strategy for 'profile views' than visiting.

But 'visiting' is the best (and only) strategy to find out what groups your target market visit.

Going forward I will:

• Create posts
• Post more regular updates
• Engage in group discussions where I can

And see how that goes