And now let us see why you get blocked from LinkedIn for sending “too many” connection requests. Now, this is no official information, just know-how from quite a lot of practice:
REASON NO. 1
Less than 35% accept your connection request seven days after you have sent it.
REASON NO. 2
LinkedIn doesn’t like you. To be precise, your Social Selling Index (= SSI) is too low.
Here is where you can measure yours.
Here is my article how to increase your SSI.
I wouldn’t recommend you to send more than 25 connection requests weekly if your SSI is under 40.
If your score is between 40 and 60, it’s still quite risky to send more than 50 requests weekly.
And from many people, you might have heard that it’s okay to send up to 100 connection requests weekly. NOT EXACTLY. It’s okay to send up to one hundred if your SSI is higher than 60 and most people accept your request.
Otherwise, you will get blocked anyhow. Once again, this is no official info – unfortunately, there is no clear official article about these limits in numbers and scores.
Now, here is official information for all good it is:
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a551012
My data is based on our experience and the experience of our clients. You know, if you get blocked, you may observe when it happened and get an idea of where the boundaries might be.
And I would recommend you to have an idea about it – since several blocks might quite easily lead to permanent restriction of your profile.
I wouldn’t even complain. These rules help to stop spam and keep communication here real and relevant.
And remember that those “cool” texts many people are sending to their connection requests most often decrease their success rate. (to be continued in the next newsletter).
