{"id":987513576,"date":"2025-03-07T10:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T10:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/?p=987513576"},"modified":"2025-03-07T10:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T10:04:27","slug":"how-do-you-become-linkedins-top-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/how-do-you-become-linkedins-top-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you become LinkedIn&#8217;s TOP Voice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"ember64\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">It took me about five hours during the last three weeks to get that badge.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember65\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>Is it worth it? <\/strong>And how can you get one?<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model   \">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper\n\n        \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember66\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered  reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D4E12AQFm1z6Ko29lcg\/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232\/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232\/0\/1709109694683?e=1746662400&amp;v=beta&amp;t=-Zq7rAw1OTUg4v9D1PlHEC4F9aXzsaesTEymo7KJIx0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"ember67\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Source: <a id=\"ember68\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/richardvanderblom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard van der Blom<\/a>&#8216;s Algorithm Insights 2024 Report v1.0<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember69\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">We can&#8217;t confirm these since it&#8217;s hard to separate the effect of the badge from all other things that are going on, and you would need a comparison of at least 10 profiles with badges and 10 profiles without them.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember70\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">We don&#8217;t have that many profiles with badges + other Richards&#8217;s data are overall correlated with ours, so we have no reason to doubt these specific figures.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember71\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>Now, it is not critical for you to have this badge. If you still want to, here is how you get one or even more of them:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"ember72\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>STEP 1: CHOOSE THE BADGE YOU WANT <\/strong>( here &#8211; <a class=\"WIqYRhrgSwudTdkUSyFxlrSpLSzpijzZtNRIQ \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/topics\/home\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/topics\/home<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember73\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>STEP 2: CONTRIBUTE WITH TENS OF RELEVANT COMMENTS ON THE ARTICLES UNDER THAT SPECIFIC TOPIC YOU HAVE CHOSEN <\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"ember74\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Be aware that your contributions are visible to your current followers and may spam them. This is one of the reasons you need to keep those comments relevant:<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--resize\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model   \">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper\n\n        \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember75\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered  reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D4E12AQFcRBY_Pjc4_A\/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232\/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232\/0\/1709110146118?e=1746662400&amp;v=beta&amp;t=iqzf7he2SMOKtXGDXwQKPcc0KZ_2Rx68lFKrMpE-FIs\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--resize\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model   \">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper\n\n        \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember76\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered  reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D4E12AQFxH2ZvvMVmBw\/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232\/article-inline_image-shrink_1500_2232\/0\/1709110274332?e=1746662400&amp;v=beta&amp;t=xl2shPTQabUQeyWSQ6cnaVenSvpBddKZcbk1HhFMUlU\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"ember77\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>STEP 3: STAY PATIENT AND CONTINUE CONTRIBUTING, <\/strong>since only 5% of TOP participants will get that badge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"reader-image-block reader-image-block--full-width\">\n<figure class=\"reader-image-block__figure\">\n<div class=\"ivm-image-view-model   \">\n<div class=\"ivm-view-attr__img-wrapper\n\n        \"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ember78\" class=\"ivm-view-attr__img--centered  reader-image-block__img evi-image lazy-image ember-view\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D4E12AQHTavaOoJ1IIg\/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488\/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488\/0\/1709110401764?e=1746662400&amp;v=beta&amp;t=2qlHW4cGeC_5cvYicoxgAY4a5-6Gc7atyuwMbKOrZ9c\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"ember79\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2192 They will kinda notify you that you are getting close.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember80\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2192 Still, there is no clearly stated value that you need to reach.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember81\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2192 The competition on different topics varies, and it&#8217;s much easier to become a TOP Voice on the less popular topic.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember82\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2192 It&#8217;s clear that the algorithm avueles your position among other competitors according to the number of your comments on the articles concerning specific topic. And the number of likes that your contributions did get.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember83\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">\u2192 If and when you are being evaluated among 5% of the best contributors on that topic, you will get the badge in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember84\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>And now you will have it for 60 days, after which it disappears, and you may begin anew. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"ember85\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Or you may contribute to other topics and get several badges.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember86\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\"><strong>Anyhow avoid this common mistake: <\/strong>you need to keep contributing to the articles about one topic. For example, I chose the Social Selling articles and did not switch to any other topics before I became one of the TOP 5% contributors.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember87\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Anyway, there is a minimum amount of articles concerning a single topic that you have to comment on to be eligible to get the badge &#8211; that is three.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember88\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">It took me commenting on approximately 10 articles and about 30 contributions during the period of three weeks to get my badge.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember89\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Now the main question remains: in your specific case, is it worth it? I have to leave that one up to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me about five hours during the last three weeks to get that badge. Is it worth it? And how can you get one? Source: Richard van der Blom&#8216;s Algorithm Insights 2024 Report v1.0 We can&#8217;t confirm these since it&#8217;s hard to separate the effect of the badge from all other things that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":987513577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987513576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987513576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987513576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987513576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987513583,"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987513576\/revisions\/987513583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987513577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987513576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987513576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymatters.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987513576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}