LinkedIn is the world's largest workplace social platform. It is a commercial workplace social platform with more than 700 million users worldwide. It was founded in 2003, listed in 2011, acquired by Microsoft in 2016, and headquartered in the United States. This determines that LinkedIn is a social platform with unlimited business transaction opportunities. More and more foreign trade people are developing customers on LinkedIn. In October 2021, LinkedIn adjusted its operating model in China to LinkedIn Workplace, which made it more difficult to use the international version of LinkedIn.
For those who are new to LinkedIn and are not familiar with the LinkedIn ecosystem rules, it is easy for their LinkedIn account to be blocked (login restricted). So how can they avoid and solve the problem of LinkedIn account being blocked (login restricted)?
There are mainly two situations in which a LinkedIn account is blocked or login is restricted.
First of all, you need to figure out what status your Linkedin account is in.
The first case
After entering the Linkedin account and password and clicking to log in, you cannot 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.
Strictly speaking, this is not a complete ban, it just means that your account has been identified as a "risky account". The platform has imposed temporary security restrictions on your account (but this does not mean that it can be ignored. Once an account enters the security restriction list multiple times, it will be permanently banned sooner or later).
Solution: Use Google Chrome to log in to Linkedin. If you have been using Google Chrome before, clear all the caches (cookies) of Google Chrome and try to log in again. (If you still cannot log in after the operation, please wait patiently for 24-48 hours and it will return to normal)
The main reasons for the first category:
01. No fixed IP. You often log in to LinkedIn in a network environment with scientific Internet access, which causes your IP to be unstable in different places and countries. Here we recommend that you try to use a static residential IP.
02. Frequently switch between different terminal devices or browsers to log in to 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, such as quickly and frequently visiting other users' LinkedIn personal homepage links to view their information, quickly copying and pasting messages with the same content to add friends, or quickly copying and pasting messages with the same content to send to one's own LinkedIn friends, etc.
05. Frequently modify LinkedIn profile information.
06. Frequent or large-scale deletion of LinkedIn friends.
Therefore, when logging in to LinkedIn on a daily basis, try to avoid an unstable network environment, and use a fixed terminal device and browser, do not switch or log in and out at will.
The second case
After entering your Linkedin account and password and clicking to log in, a prompt message such as "Dear user, your account has been restricted and cannot be used temporarily" appears.
Solution:
Follow the prompts on Linkedin's official website to authenticate your identity, upload the corresponding identity documents, and then wait for official email notification from Linkedin.
If you have tried the above methods and still cannot unblock your account, then we must learn from the lesson and operate with caution to prevent this from happening again. (After all, most blocked Linkedin accounts are difficult to recover)
Note: When you need to submit your ID card for authentication, foreign trade people are accustomed to using their English names when registering on LinkedIn, but the ID card uploaded must be a Chinese name. This mismatch can easily lead to a failed appeal and permanent ban.
Solution: Register a Chinese profile based on the English profile in advance, using your real name on your ID card. This will greatly increase your chances of success in appeals.
The main reasons for the second category:
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. It is common to fill in the initial name randomly or make up something when registering a LinkedIn account.
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 or education history to contain website links or contact information.
05. Newly registered LinkedIn accounts send a large number of friend invitations.
In these five situations, we first 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 absolutely need multiple LinkedIn accounts, you must register them on different devices, and also keep them on different devices when you log in to LinkedIn on a daily basis.
A special reminder for those who have just started using LinkedIn: Don’t rush to search and add friends with your newly registered LinkedIn account. Just do a few things in the first week:
- Improve your personal profile
- Post a few professional (non-advertising) pictures and texts (those with good writing skills can post articles)
- Choose a small number of valuable connections from those recommended by LinkedIn
- If you have the customer's email address, you can import the customer's email address to invite your customers to become friends on LinkedIn.
After a week, you can start searching for target customers based on keywords and add them. It is recommended that you limit the number of people you add to 50 per day in the first month. You can basically regard the first month as a "nurturing period". After that, you can gradually increase the number based on the actual situation such as the acceptance rate of your invitations to add friends. Don't think it's slow, because developing customers on LinkedIn itself is a process that takes time to get results.
There are three common mistakes that beginners make:
- 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.
- A large number of messages were sent to LinkedIn friends in a short period of time, but many friends reported to LinkedIn that they were being harassed.
- Sending a large number of messages with the same or similar content in a short period of time, whether it is an invitation message to add a friend or a message sent to one's own friends.
The problem in these three situations is that a large number of operations are taken too hastily. Developing customers through LinkedIn social networking is a process. You must naturally make customers willing to establish LinkedIn friend relationships with them through your friend invitations, get opportunities for direct and continuous dialogue, and then gradually infiltrate your information. At this stage, you must do a good job of LinkedIn content marketing to make customers interested in you, willing to learn about you, your career, and your products, and ultimately create sales opportunities.
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.
Also, please note that the invitation message for adding friends must not contain any website links or contact information, and the large number of marketing messages sent to your friends must not all contain website links.
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