The Success Stories Group is the group where you help others to become successful while helping yourself.
We are all using LinkedIn.com build our business networks.
And when helping others become successful, you help build your own network.
This group maximizes the reach of LinkedIn and combines it with the power of Google to helps you to promote you. As a member of this group, and with a few minutes of pontification, you get to leverage a few minutes work over and over again. Let me explain how it works.
(And you thought this group was just for fun and to add a few people to your network!)
Let me share with you some facts about LinkedIn Answers, Google, and what I do with your submissions.
- Every LinkedIn Answers can be read by the millions of members of LinkedIn. They are accessed through the search field. While I can’t predicate the future, but, I bet that LinkedIn will do something with those thousands of answers.
- Every answer is available for anybody reading your profile, which means clients, employers, friends, customers, and every body else on LinkedIn can see how brilliant, funny, interesting, or just plain smart you are.
- Google reads LinkedIn Answers, so anything that you enter in your answer becomes available in a keyword search. This means, your website or your LinkedIn profile gets a higher ranking.
- I take all the answers from one of my questions, edit them a bit, and then post them to my website. Which has a great ranking and a large and significant readership. Therefore, Google then sees your links, and again your Google ranking gets increased. Which in turn makes everything you are doing of higher value.
- The answers to a question gets added in a number of different places in my site, so you get a better Google ranking.
- I don’t rank a single answer as the best answer. But, many answers get a good rating, which adds to your LinkedIn Answers rating.
What’s the bottom line when you answer a LinkedIn Success question posted by Zale?
You get some serious promotion from Google, LinkedIn and Zale.
Promotion that lasts forever.
What do you have to do to get this serious promotion?
- Make it personal. Explain how others can apply what you learned. Do your best to make sure your personality shows through.
- Provide a decent well thought out response. I would suggest somewhere between 500 and 1000 words.
- Make sure your website is included. LinkedIn Answers lets you add that.
- Relate your answer to your business success. If you can relate it to something you did with your clients, boss, etc, then do so. Read the NEVER EVER below when you write about your business.
- Enjoy what you are doing. This is an opportunity to share your experiences with thousands of people. (Yes, that is the readership that the success stories on my site gets.)
Here are a couple of things NEVER EVER to do:
- Don’t make it a promotion. Both LinkedIn Answers and I will just delete, ignore, expunge, kill, wipe out, and just ignore it.
- Don’t be rude or flippant. I am constantly surprised at the number of people who think a short flippant answer will help their career. I have had people speak about very personal things like cancer, divorce, and numerous other stuff. How does a flippant answer look like when others have submitted serious answers.
- Don’t reference other peoples ideas. If you agree with them, restate them in your own words with your own ideas.
Why does Zale get out of this and why you should care.
- Every time I post a question my LinkedIn Network grows. This is good for you, because if you are connected to me, everyone of those connections are added to your network.
- Every time I post a LinkedIn Answer my Google rank increases. The more outbound links I have around quality content increases my credibility. This is good for you, because the higher my rank is, the higher the rank I give to those people who have links from my site.
Take Care
www.linkedin.com/in/ZaleTabakman <- I hope you are already connected to me directly and taking advantage of the 1,700,000 people I add to your network.
www.ZaleTabakman.ca/stories – Read all the stories that are posted!
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