How to Add Link in LinkedIn Summary?

It is a known fact that adding hyperlinks to your profile attracts people’s attention to the websites you want them to visit and makes your profile look so much more professional.

How to add link in LinkedIn summary? Just click on the pencil icon to edit your profile, scroll down and enter the link in the related box.

How to add link in LinkedIn summary?

You could add media and links to your “about” section in the past. But unfortunately, the recent updates made it impossible to add a hyperlink to this part.

I mean you still can enter a link in your summary section but it won’t get activated and the viewer must copy it into the address bar. Instead, you can add a link under the title you choose for yourself in the profile.

Just click on the pencil icon under your background photo, scroll down to see the website title, copy the link you want to add to your profile from the website address bar, and paste it to the box, you can either choose to show the link or you can type how you want the link to look, now you can click “save”.

The link appears in your profile.

Posts, experiences, educations & hyperlinks

Hyperlinks can make your words and claims credible. For this reason, it might be a good idea to add a little information on your LinkedIn background and your educational and job information to your profile.

When you add hyperlinks to your posts, the number of visits to your desired website will definitely increase.

In addition, as Google backlinks greatly influence a website’s ranking, posts containing hyperlinks also get higher impressions and views on LinkedIn.

Besides, hyperlinks can increase user engagement and even encourage them to comment and share your post. That is why it is necessary to know how to add links to the LinkedIn summaries, posts, experiences, and education section.

Post

There are some ways for the users to add links to their posts:

1. Add the URL to the post content and wait for it to find the website and add the logo under your post.
2. Add the LinkedIn account of the company to a post by entering @+ the company name. If they have an account on the platform, the @company name gets linked to the account.
3. Add an individual user account to the post. Add @+the user’s name. If they have an account on the platform, the @user’s name gets linked to the account.

Experiences

Adding the company’s URLs that you’ve been working with or the one you are currently working with is so interesting for the recruiters who are looking for perfect candidates.

I mean, it’s always better to be sure that a company that someone claimed to work with exists, right?

1. Log into your account
2. Click on “Me” and select the “View Profile” option
3. Scroll down to reach the experience section
4. Click on the pencil icon at the top right corner
5. Click on the pencil icon in front of each job
6. In the media, section click on the “+ add media” button
7. Select “add link”
8. Enter the URL and click on the add button in the opened box
9. The company’s logo will appear under this section
10. You can edit the picture of the logo if you want or just leave it be
11. Save the changes.

Education

1. Log into your account
2. Click on “Me” and select the “View Profile” option
3. Scroll down to reach the education section
4. Click on the pencil icon at the top right corner
5. Click on the pencil icon in front of each job
6. In the media section click on the “+ add media” button
7. Select “add link”
8. Enter the university, college, or school’s URL and click on the add button in the opened box
9. The university’s logo will appear under this section
10. Save 

Conclusion

Adding links to your profile and posts is a perfect way to attract the viewers’ attention to that so-called website and to elevate the website’s views with this tool.

Additionally, you can make your claims of working or studying somewhere more credible by providing Links in your profile sections.

So if you are not used to adding hyperlinks to your posts and profile, try it now. You will definitely witness the results.