- Old rumor
- What manual actions can be dangerous for your LinkedIn account?
- Managing multiple LinkedIn accounts
Old rumor
Rumor about all LinkedIn automation tools being unsafe is not new and imprinted in memory of most of the users. With Linked Helper, this rumor becomes outdated as our tool not only imitates LinkedIn user behavior by making random timeouts but also by clicking a random place on a button when executing an action, just like a real human being, without using LinkedIn API to process profiles. There are more layers of protection used, you can find them all in the following article: Is it safe to use Linked Helper? Is it detectable?
Automating LinkedIn accounts may be safe, we found that out in the article mentioned above, but what about safety when using a LinkedIn account manually, is it safe as well? The answer may seem counterintuitive - no, it is not. In the sections below we review some cases and find facts that prove the answer to be right, as well as some precautions and best practices that help us to be on a safe side.
To answer this question, you need to know how LinkedIn detects automation tools. There are two ways of doing that: technical and behavioral. The former are not applicable to our case, but the latter are. If robots can behave like people, why can't people behave like robots or automation tools?
What manual actions can be dangerous for your LinkedIn account?
URL navigation
It seems that managers in LinkedIn didn’t ask themselves this question or just decided to ignore it, as a result, we can have a situation when LinkedIn detection algorithm checks is the number of profiles opened via URL navigation, i.e. when you paste the LinkedIn profile link into a browser address bar and press Enter on your keyboard.
If you open 50 profiles via URL in Chrome, then you most likely will be logged out of your LinkedIn account. That’s why Linked Helper uses in page navigation, i.e. it searches profiles via LinkedIn search like an average user would do.
Is opening profiles via URL navigation in the browser all you need to avoid? No, because the same thing happens when you make a right mouse click on a profile name and choose “Open link in new tab” or “Open link in new window”. If you open a profile in a new tab via middle mouse button (wheel) click, it is also opened via URL navigation.
Advice for regular LinkedIn users
Avoid opening profiles via URLs using any method described above, use LinkedIn search instead.
Advice for Linked Helper users
When using Linked Helper, you can be sure that profiles will be opened by in-page navigation and URL will only be used in case the profile was not found in search. If use upload profile URLs from other Linked Helper accounts, use this method to upload a CSV - How to upload profiles' data from Linked Helper CSV file.
When managing someone else's LinkedIn account, inform account owner about the risks of URL navigation and ask them to open profiles via LinkedIn search.
High amount of single-type actions
Next thing LinkedIn checks is how fast and how many actions of a certain kind you do. Let’s imagine you gained several thousand profiles in your network, and then after a couple of months of very pretty activity you started visiting 300 - 500 1st-degree connections daily to open their Contacts info for email scraping. Most likely in 2 - 3 weeks’ time after that spike in activity LinkedIn either restricts you for ID verification to make sure you’re not a bot account or asks you to comply with their Terms that forbid using scrapers.
Advice for regular LinkedIn users
Avoid performing single-type actions in LinkedIn, i.e. if your goal is to visit all your 1st-degree connections to get their email addresses, it’s better to invite about 5 - 10 profiles daily.
Advice for Linked Helper users
That’s why our tool has a default overall limit for all types of actions as well as custom limits for URL loading and inviting. It would be even better to diversify your activity by creating a generic campaign for inviting and following up.
Simultaneous activity
We believe you’re already aware that LinkedIn does not endorse when its users share their LinkedIn accounts with somebody. Accessing one and the same account through 2 Chrome browsers on different computers, even if they are in the same office and use a proxy to have the same IP address, creates two different login sessions.
LinkedIn can see two different people are using the same account at the same time. Of course, you won’t be instantly banned once you access LinkedIn from two or more login sessions, but it’s better to decrease simultaneous activity to minimum or avoid it completely if possible.
Advice for regular LinkedIn users
If you provide access to your LinkedIn account to someone else, it’s better to agree on a common schedule when you can use your LinkedIn manually to avoid the two of your being active at the same time.
Advice for Linked Helper users
To avoid any kind of simultaneous activity, Linked Helper never performs two actions at the same time, as well as it closes one of two windows with one and the same LinkedIn account if it is opened via the same Linked Helper account but on different computers.
Yet Linked Helper cannot forbid other people using the same account manually, so you need to ask the LinkedIn account owner to stick to a schedule you’ve set up in Linked Helper instance and do not work when Linked Helper is automating the account.
Activity from different countries
Of course, there won’t be any consequences if you travel a lot and constantly use LinkedIn from several countries or periodically during short business trips. The issue occurs when you access LinkedIn in the morning from Germany and from the USA at noon, or when the access location of your LinkedIn account changes every 30 minutes. The latter case is typical when you use VPN from time to time for some of your programs or when two people accessing one and the same LinkedIn account from different countries but not at the same time, e.g. you’re in the US and your virtual assistant accesses your LinkedIn account from Philippines when you’re not active.
Advice for regular LinkedIn users
Make sure the country specified in your LinkedIn account matches your actual location. You can use VPN or proxy services if you travel a lot or simply change the location if you moved to another country for living.
Advice for Linked Helper users
To avoid issues with that account, you should assign a proxy of the country where your client’s account is from. Thus, you hide the fact that two different people are using one account from different countries, yet the problem with simultaneous access still persists.
Managing multiple LinkedIn accounts
Precautions and best practices for managing multiple LinkedIn accounts are pretty the same when using manual work and Linked Helper automation tool. Below you can find several useful links to articles that contains helpful information about hints, limits, and best practices when automating LinkedIn via Linked Helper:
- How to manage multiple LinkedIn accounts
- What kind of limits should I use?
- What is Proxy for? What proxy do I need?
- How to run Linked Helper in a cloud / remote server
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