Hi Champs,
My LinkedIn profile has been ban permanently. According to their safety and recovery consultant, it is due to the unusually high volume of usage. Anyone faces this problem before?
rainmakerinthemaking
Linkdln usage
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When you send too many invites, straight to jail.
Send too many messages? Straight to jail.
Use more than one emoji on your profile? Straight to jail.
Cough too loudly on a zoom? Jail.
Connect and pitch? Believe it or not, jail.
Send too many messages? Straight to jail.
Use more than one emoji on your profile? Straight to jail.
Cough too loudly on a zoom? Jail.
Connect and pitch? Believe it or not, jail.
Right to jail!
Right to jail! Right away!
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lol - that got me
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Nice! Very smooth, agent 007
I suspect it's one of these.
So good! But yea they put this guy in Jail for too many random connect invites
......lol
Were you spamming people?
"I've got a feeling"
You either came on too strong and got reported, or set up some no-no scripts.
Nothing you can do my friend. Enjoy a LI free life :)
You either came on too strong and got reported, or set up some no-no scripts.
Nothing you can do my friend. Enjoy a LI free life :)
I have not, but how were you using LinkedIn? What usage was high?
I ask what's their definition of high usage volume. They just say I violate their user and safety policy
Did you automate anything? That's typically what happens if you do that
at most lusa or zoominfo
LI is in kind of between a rock and a hard place given the amount of garbage automation being sold these days. It’s really hurting their reputation and engagement on the platform
@poweredbycaffeine is right, they'll ban you for any excess. any ideas what might have been that caused it?
Excessive viewing of profiles
Why is that a ban-able offense? Do they think you were trying to scrape data or something?
> Thanks for reaching out and I'm sorry for the inconvenience this causes.
> We noticed that an unusually high volume of pages was being viewed through
> your account despite our previous warnings. To protect our members'
> information, the User Agreement and Professional Community Policies
> prohibit systematically viewing large numbers of LinkedIn pages. Due to
> continued unusually high traffic volume detected on your account after
> multiple warnings, this account has been permanently restricted.
> We noticed that an unusually high volume of pages was being viewed through
> your account despite our previous warnings. To protect our members'
> information, the User Agreement and Professional Community Policies
> prohibit systematically viewing large numbers of LinkedIn pages. Due to
> continued unusually high traffic volume detected on your account after
> multiple warnings, this account has been permanently restricted.
That's weird. I know they'll ban you if you invite too many people in like a couple of days, but just for viewing? hadn't heard about that one before.
Were you using some kind of automation tool to view/scrape?
Can you estimate how many profiles you were viewing in a day, to give us a sense of usage?
Good callout. LinkedIn will ban people using stuff like dux-soup.
100% they're a client of my company and they crack down hard on automation
I would say below 50
You looked at 50 profiles in a day and got banned?
Welcome to my life. My new account which i created 3 days ago .. banned.
Well if you're using the same email and laptop they probably have you blacklisted
i would say try to keep it below 20. My 3 day old linkdln acct was banned when i decide to shoot up my activities on the third day. Imagine coming back to my desk after a quick coffee break to see it baned ( again!)
nope, guess i open and move on the platform too fast
have you been banned before, using the same laptop? they could be tagging your ip
Spamming those cold messages will do it.
Sales Navigator messages are all spam anyways. I recommend finding contacts - using 3rd party platform to find work email, then email directly.
Cold email > LI message 10/10.
Hunter.io is a good free platform to help find contact info.
Sales Navigator messages are all spam anyways. I recommend finding contacts - using 3rd party platform to find work email, then email directly.
Cold email > LI message 10/10.
Hunter.io is a good free platform to help find contact info.
We recently on board zoominfo
Did you pay for premium?
No, i manage to get them to give me free trial for Sales Nav.
Never heard of permanent ban, what did you do? Can you fix it and more importantly do you want to fix it?
I ignored the first 2 temporary ban becos I have been viewing and msgging lots of connected prospects. I have been trying all means to get back my acct but the lindkln team kept giving the same bs
I use LI a lot and have never had an issue. Do you have Sales Nav?
My company use to have nav but they cancel it becos the usuage lvl doesn't justify the investment. But that was b4 I join the team.
Hmmm, I wonder if they are now penalizing people who don't pay for Nav. I heard a story the other day of a recruiter getting suspended for looking at too many profiles... Pretty sure that's what LI is for...
Woah, that's bananas
I've heard of it happening. In those cases, it's because the person got a temporary ban that can only be lifted when ID is submitted.
Having Linkedin Premium helps with not getting banned if you're a spammer
I got a temp ban once... I just slowed down the pace. All good after.
LI is a cross between Facebook and women's magazines anyway. You're career and life will probably gain more value in the long run without it
and as pointed out by @poweredbycaffeine you'll prob stay out of jail now
and as pointed out by @poweredbycaffeine you'll prob stay out of jail now
What have you been doing on LI?
prospecting. Once connected, I will send a personalized msg according to their profile
I've been forced to upgrade to sales nav in the past but not banned.. were you sending too many inmails or viewing too many profiles? i think it's a way of limiting spammers on the app
Oh man……. This just brings up rage as big as a mountain for me, I had to make a new account FOUR times cause I kept getting permanently banned even after sending them passports, ID’s and all that crap they ask from you so they can see whether it’s a fake account.
I then made about 8 fake profiles with diff names and all those eventually one by one got banned as well.
I needed LinkedIn cause it was supposed to be 90% of my research, but a year ago a friend made an account for me and strangely it’s still active, they just needed to see me struggle 12 times I guess 🥲
I then made about 8 fake profiles with diff names and all those eventually one by one got banned as well.
I needed LinkedIn cause it was supposed to be 90% of my research, but a year ago a friend made an account for me and strangely it’s still active, they just needed to see me struggle 12 times I guess 🥲
hahaha same here. both my primary and secondary acct which are at least 5 yrs old is banned permanently. I created 1 alt acct but it's ban after 3 days, I went full outbound on their AEs and regional directors. Now im on a free trial Sales navigator
How did that happen? I wasn't aware that could happen. Were you spamming or running some automated program?
I’ve been warned, warned again, asked to sign a contract stating I do not use bots, AND was permanently restricted for 6 months but got out… started a company doing this and managing LinkedIn efficiently to bring in 1st meetings for the enterprise space - hit me up if you have questions
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