![]() Let me know if you want more help learning how to get more value out of LinkedIn. Get good at LinkedIn Boolean Search by practicing. Use these LinkedIn Boolean Search Operators and Modifiers to create more focused results when using the Search Bar or LinkedIn Advanced Search. NOT allows you to exclude a particular word or phrase from your search results.ĭirector NOT executive NOT VP NOT “Vice President” “Vice President” OR VP OR “V.P.” OR SVP OR EVP Helpdesk OR “Desktop Support” OR “Technical Support” “American Express” OR “American Airlines” OR creates results with one of two (or three) different phrases or words in the content. “graphics design” AND “architect” would need to be in content in order to be in the results “customer service” and management will return results with both “customer service” and management in the content. Software AND designer will return the same results as software designer. You do not need to use the AND Operator, by default LinkedIn assumes AND in a search with two phrases or words. (instructional designer OR instructional design) will result in both instructional designers and instructional design in the results.ĪND produces results that contain two separate words or phrases. Software AND (engineer OR architect) will result in both software engineers and software architects in the results. Parenthetical – When creating a complex search include terms and operators in parenthesis. You can use these in addition to other modifiers.Įxamples “Operations manager”, “Business Developer” or “Vice President” Quotes are used when you want to search for an exact phrase. You can build search strings in the Keywords, Title, Name, and Company fields. These operators and modifiers can be used in the LinkedIn search bar as well as the Advanced Search form. This video will show you how to do LinkedIn hashtag research in one minute.LinkedIn published a cheat sheet on using Boolean Search functions a while back.īoolean searches allow users to combine keywords with modifiers (Quotes & Parenthesis) and operators such as AND, NOT, and OR to produce more relevant results. I have a free guide on optimizing your LinkedIn profile to show up higher in search results. If you want to learn more about how I do this, here are some resources you might find helpful. It has helped me close hundreds of thousands of dollars in business. Mess this part up, and you’re going to make things really hard for yourself later on. When it comes to landing the clients you want, this is where it all starts. And these changes are just a start - we look. You’re finding the best people to connect with on LinkedIn. The new LinkedIn Search aims to feel like a sort of personal assistant, helping you to find the right results specifically tailored to your needs. You know, the people you actually want to work with who will pay you more for your work? Yeah, those folks.ĭon’t make the mistake of thinking that by getting fewer search results as a result of using these boolean modifiers, you’re limiting yourself. You want to get hyper-specific with your search because this is going to help you find those high-quality, highly-targeted leads. When you try to reach everyone, you end up reaching no one. Who cares? You might be wondering why any of this matters. When I search blog NOT editor, I get just shy of 1.3 million results.īy excluding any results with the word editor, I narrow down the results and get fewer. Here’s an example.īlog editor, once again, gives us about 1.4 million results. When you put NOT before a word in your search, you’re telling LinkedIn to exclude any results with that keyword. Remember that blog editor gives us just shy of 1.4 million.īlog OR editor gives us more than 5.5 million results.īlog editor gives less flexibility because the search results need to contain both of those words, not just one or the other. This means that it’s going to broaden your results. When you put OR in between two words, you’re telling LinkedIn to show you all search results that have at least one of those keywords. ![]() ![]() Inserting the Word OR in Your Boolean Search Because we searched for something more precise, our results are more targeted. “Blog editor” in quotes gives us just 5,800. Blog editor without quotes gives us nearly 1.4 million people in search results. “Blog editor” in quotes, on the other hand, will only show you people who have the exact words “blog editor,” written just like that, on their profile.Ĭheck out these screenshots. When you search for something and put any of those words in quotes, you’re telling LinkedIn only to show you words with that exact phrase and those words in that order.įor example, there’s a difference between searching for a blog editor and a “blog editor.”īlog editor will turn up any results where the person has “blog” and “editor” in their title, regardless of how exactly the words are being used. Using Quotes in Your Boolean Search on LinkedIn There are others but we’re starting here for now. In this blog, I’m going to cover three specifically: quotes, OR, and NOT. ![]()
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