How to avoid having your LinkedIn account blocked

For those who are new to LinkedIn and unfamiliar with the LinkedIn ecosystem, it is indeed very easy to get your LinkedIn account blocked or restricted from logging in. This is why many people have a love-hate relationship with LinkedIn…

So how can you solve and avoid the problem of your LinkedIn account being blocked/restricted from logging in?

First of all, we need to understand that there are two main situations in which a LinkedIn account is blocked/login restricted, and the solutions and avoidance methods are also different. Let's now explain them separately.

The first situation is: on the LinkedIn official website on the computer or the LinkedIn APP on the mobile phone, after entering the LinkedIn account and password and clicking to log in, you are unable to log in normally and a prompt such as "There was a problem, please try again" or "An unexpected error occurred, please try again" or similar appears.

The main reasons for the first type of situation are:

01. Frequently log in and use LinkedIn in a network environment with scientific Internet access, resulting in the IP address being in a different place and country and not being fixed.

02. Frequently switch between different terminal devices or browsers to log in and use LinkedIn.

03. Frequently perform various functions on LinkedIn on both the computer and the mobile phone.

04. Within a certain period of time, one or more operations are performed quickly and frequently. For example, quickly and frequently access other users' LinkedIn profile links to view their profiles, quickly copy and paste messages with the same content to add friends, quickly copy and paste messages with the same content to send to your own LinkedIn friends, etc.

05. Frequently modify LinkedIn profile information.

06. Frequent or large-scale deletion of LinkedIn friends.

Strictly speaking, the first type of situation does not mean that your LinkedIn account has been blocked. It is mainly because your LinkedIn account has been identified as abnormal and risky by LinkedIn's mechanism, so your LinkedIn account has been temporarily restricted for security reasons.

The solution to the first situation is relatively simple: do not open the scientific Internet tool, and use the Google (Chrome) browser to log in to LinkedIn. If you have been using the Google (Chrome) browser before, first clear the cache (Cookies) of the Google (Chrome) browser at all times and try to log in to LinkedIn again.

Note: Many people may misunderstand that how can you use Google (Chrome) browser without scientific Internet access? In fact, scientific Internet access is required to visit websites such as Google search engine, Facebook, Twitter, etc., which require scientific Internet access. However, LinkedIn can be logged in and used in China without scientific Internet access. In other words, you can directly enter any website link that does not require scientific Internet access in Google (Chrome) browser and access it normally.

Then there may be two situations under this solution: the first is that you can log in to LinkedIn successfully and normally; the second is that you still cannot log in to LinkedIn normally. If you encounter the second situation, don't panic, usually it will return to normal after waiting for 48 hours.

Although the first type of situation is not serious and does not mean your LinkedIn account will be blocked, it does not mean you can ignore it. Because once your LinkedIn account is included in the security restriction list multiple times, it may cause your LinkedIn account to be blocked.

Therefore, when logging in to LinkedIn on a daily basis, try to avoid an unstable network environment, keep your terminal device and browser fixed, do not switch or log in and out at will, and use the third-party LinkedIn auxiliary tool LinkedIn Assistant to manage and operate your LinkedIn account.

Because the LinkedIn Assistant tool will perform risk control management when replacing operations such as adding LinkedIn friends in batches and sending messages to LinkedIn friends in batches. It will execute them one by one at irregular intervals. At the same time, the content of the messages sent can also be set to be randomly switched at one time to avoid the risks of sending repeated content in the same time period. In addition, the customer's name can be automatically added to each message.

These details can better improve the quality of the message content itself, as well as better protect the stability and security of the LinkedIn account.

In short, please pay attention to the above reasons that may cause your LinkedIn account to be restricted for security reasons, and conduct self-examination and avoid them.

The second situation is: on the official LinkedIn website on a computer, after entering your LinkedIn account and password and clicking to log in, a very clear prompt appears, such as "Dear user, your account has been restricted and cannot be used temporarily."

When you encounter such a situation, the only solution is to upload the corresponding identity document (ID card or passport) according to the prompts on the LinkedIn official website, and wait for the official LinkedIn email to notify the review result after identity verification. LinkedIn will explain the reason for the account being blocked and whether it can be unblocked in the email. In addition, do not trust any other form of LinkedIn account unblocking method or unblocking service, whether it is free or paid, to avoid other losses.

That is to say, once a LinkedIn account encounters such a situation, whether the normal use of the LinkedIn account can be restored can only wait for the official review of LinkedIn. If you don’t want to face this terrible situation yourself, each of us needs to know how to avoid such a situation.

Let’s continue to understand the main reasons for the second type of situation:

01. The same person registers and uses multiple LinkedIn accounts.

02. Multiple people share the same LinkedIn account.

03. Registering a LinkedIn account with false information. This is usually done by filling in a random or fabricated initial name when registering a LinkedIn account, or using a virtual mobile phone number or email address when registering.

04. The personal profile information of the LinkedIn account is not standardized. It is common for the name in the LinkedIn personal profile to contain product keywords and job titles, and the personal profile, work experience, and education experience to contain website links or contact information.

05. Newly registered LinkedIn accounts send a large number of friend invitations.

For these five situations, first of all, we need to comply with the rules and requirements for LinkedIn account registration and information filling. In particular, when registering a LinkedIn account, you are strongly required to fill in your real Chinese name. Secondly, if you need multiple LinkedIn accounts, you must use completely different mobile phone numbers and email addresses to register on different terminal devices, and also keep them on different terminal devices when you log in to LinkedIn on a daily basis.

At the same time, a special reminder to those who are registering and using LinkedIn for the first time is that you should not rush to search and add friends with your newly registered LinkedIn account. Just do a few things in the first week: A. Improve your personal profile; B. Post a few professional (non-advertising) pictures and text updates (those with good writing skills can post articles); C. Select a small number of valuable contacts from the connections recommended by LinkedIn to add; D. If you have a customer's email address, you can import the customer's email address to invite the customer to become your friend on LinkedIn.

After a week, start searching for target customers based on keywords and add them. It is recommended to control the number of new people added per day in the first month to within 50. Basically, you can regard the first month as a "nurturing period", and then gradually increase the number based on the actual situation such as the approval rate of your invitations to add friends.

Don't think it's slow, and don't dream of becoming a big fat man in one go. Only when you have a solid foundation can you stand tall and see far. Developing customers on LinkedIn is also a process that takes time to get results. Any LinkedIn expert you see now once started from scratch like you.

06. A large number of friend invitations were sent in a short period of time, but the acceptance rate was low and many people reported that they did not know the person.

07. Sending a large number of messages to LinkedIn friends in a short period of time, but many friends report to LinkedIn that you are being harassed.

08. Whether it is an invitation message to add a friend or a message sent to your own friends, a large number of messages with the same content are sent in a short period of time.

In these three situations, you must first remember what I have been emphasizing: LinkedIn social customer development must be a long-term accumulation process. You must quietly make customers willing to establish LinkedIn friendships with them through your friend invitations, gain opportunities for direct and continuous dialogue, and then gradually infiltrate your information. In this process, your LinkedIn content marketing must be done well. Let customers begin to be interested in you, willing to learn about you, your career, and your products, and ultimately create sales opportunities. This is the central idea of ​​everything.

Therefore, whether it is an invitation message when adding a friend or a marketing message sent to our friends, we must ensure the quality of the message itself and follow the principles of friendliness and professionalism. Do not directly introduce your product and ask the other party if they need it. This kind of hard advertising message with obvious sales intentions must be avoided as much as possible, because it is meaningless and can easily disgust the other party.

At the same time, special attention should be paid to the fact that the invitation message for adding friends must not contain any website links or contact information, and the marketing messages sent to your friends in large quantities must not contain any website links.

09. Frequently log in and use LinkedIn in a network environment with scientific Internet access, with frequent changes in IP addresses and instability in different locations and countries.

10. Frequently switch between different terminal devices or browsers to log in to LinkedIn.

11. Frequently log in to the same LinkedIn account on different devices or browsers at the same time.

12. Frequently logging in and out of your LinkedIn account.

13. The LinkedIn account is detected to be stolen or compromised.

We need to pay attention to avoid these five situations. Combined with what we said in the analysis of the first situation, when logging in to LinkedIn on a daily basis, try to avoid an unstable network environment after scientific Internet access, and keep the terminal device and browser fixed, do not switch at will, and do not log in and out at will. In addition, it is necessary to remind you that many people will receive some fake inquiries from fake LinkedIn in their mailboxes. You must be careful to identify them, do not visit fake links, and do not enter your LinkedIn account password in the fake links.