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This article highlights a robust method of sending traffic directly to recommendations about you or others.
As a web developer for Showcase Imagery I’ve been able to delve into the code that makes up our profiles on LinkedIn. Establishing a method that everyone can use to direct people to your recommendations, contrary to Lori Ruff‘s article Can you get a direct link to your LinkedIn Recommendations?
For the eager readers just wanting the solution.
Simply add “#endorsements” to the end of your profile URL, copy the whole url and share as desired.
Check out this short video to help you get your LinkedIn recommendations url
The in-depth knowledge and solution, for all the monotony lovers out there.
Just to give Lori a little grace first. She has highlighted a method to allow users to direct interested persons to their own recommendations. And it’s quite possible that back on the 9th of March 2014 this method wasn’t viable!
The first point to note being that this method has worked on all varieties of LinkedIn URL I have tried, so its pretty useful! I’ve tested it on the following URL types:
- http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/…
- https://www.linkedin.com/pub/…
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/…
- http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view…
If I select the Profile option when viewing my own profile I get this really long and ugly URL a bit like this…
https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=67904356&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile
I can do a few things at this point;
- Looking for my LinkedIn ID number “67904356″ I can delete everything after that.
- I could also just add to the end of the URL ← easiest to remember.
- Or I can look for my snazzy “short” URL that LinkedIn gave me when I customised my profile. (see below), remembering to remove the forward-slash before adding to the URL ← neatest.
Which I get to by clicking profile and then scrolling down to just below the profile image.
Once I have the desired version of URL, all I need to do is add #endorsements to the end of it.
https://linkedin.com/in/showcasejoz#endorsements
What if I want to forward someone else’s profile (say, in an email link)…how can I do that?
This might be useful in the realm of recruitment, when sharing potential candidates around the office. For this example I’ll use the last person that engaged with my own posts; Thanks for obliging Olivia 🙂
So I’ve used the LinkedIn search to find Olivia Davies and I’m looking at Olivila’s profile and quite shockingly here’s what the address looks like:- https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=300961652&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=dsZA&locale=en_US&trk=tyah2&trkInfo=tarId%3A1415779107546%2Ctas%3Aolivi%2Cidx%3A1-3-3
I can (keypress) F6 to place the cursor in the address-bar automatically selecting the contents too. At this point I can just add #endorsements to the end, copy and paste the full URL where I need it…done.
Or if I want to tidy it up a little I can trim everything off the right side after Olivia’s LinkedIn ID number (300961652) and then add #endorsements to the end again. Which gives you a slightly nicer looking https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=300961652#endorsements
LinkedIn also provides yet another URL for Olivia which I can access from her Contact Info tab, which looks like this:- https://www.linkedin.com/pub/olivia-davies/84/95b/758 and again I can just add #endorsements to the end giving you https://www.linkedin.com/pub/olivia-davies/84/95b/758#endorsements
Who cares…It takes to long to write a recommendation anyway!
Unfortunately there are far to many LinkedIn uses that end up “conveniently forgetting” to write your recommendation. Despite pushing the boat out and giving them the royal treatment as a client/customer.
So it might be worth including a link to this service for them, though I’d only use it under special circumstances and definitely not all the time.
http://linkedin.bitshare.cm/recommendations.php
Essentially it allows the user to input a name [steve] and the output looks like this…
Steve is one of the best among all the people I have ever worked with. As I remember, Steve was a very productive person, is hardworking, broad-minded and forward thinking individual. Intelligent, ambitious, energetic and proactive perfectionist. Desire for proficiency and education makes Steve a valuable asset to the team. Working with Steve is a signature of success.
Thanks to Lori and Olivia for unwittingly helping out in this Pulse article. Please do share this around if you found it useful and don’t forget to visit Showcase Imagery – just having a wee design right now actually. This article was first posted on the Showcase Imagery support portal
I welcome any issues that readers experience. There might be a simple work-around that can be applied if you aren’t able to achieve the desired results with your URL prefix.
What’s up, that’s fine, keep up writing.