How to visit or add LinkedIn profiles?

Updated for Linkedroid 3.7. The steps below follow the same shape as the 2020 version, but the visit modes were renamed and the dashboard was rebuilt, so the buttons are in different places.

Visiting profiles is the core of Linkedroid. You set up a search on LinkedIn, Linkedroid reads it, and works through the results at a pace you control. This covers the whole loop, including adding 2nd degree connections as it goes.

Step 1: open Linkedroid

Click the Linkedroid icon in your Chrome toolbar. It opens as a full browser tab, not a popup, and lands on Quick Campaign.

If you have no LinkedIn search tab open, Linkedroid says so and offers Go to LinkedIn at the bottom of the sidebar. It distinguishes between not being logged in, having no search tab, and being disconnected, so read what it actually says rather than assuming.

Step 2: build the search on LinkedIn

Linkedroid has no search of its own. It reads whatever LinkedIn search results are open in your browser, so your campaign is only ever as good as your search.

Search for people, then filter. Connection degree, location and current company do most of the work. Filter to 2nd degree if you plan to send connection requests, because those people share a connection with you.

A People search filtered to 2nd degree. Names and photos blurred. This is the page Linkedroid reads.

Step 3: refresh Linkedroid

Go back to the Linkedroid tab and click Refresh next to the Start button. The profiles from your search load in as cards, each showing a connection degree badge.

The counters across the top tell you what it found. Search Results is the size of your search, Current Page is where it is working, and Scanned Today counts profiles read out of the results.

Step 4: pick a visit mode

Name the campaign, then choose a Visit Mode. There are three, and the names changed since 2020:

The three visit modes.

• Visit Profile views each profile and does nothing else. LinkedIn tells people who viewed them, so this generates real signal at almost no risk. Start here.
• Visit and add 2nd degree connections visits, then sends a connection request to 2nd degree profiles. The workhorse mode, and the one the original version of this post called visit and add.
• Scan Profile reads profile data into Linkedroid without any outreach. Use it to build a tagged audience you will target later from a drip campaign.

Then pick your platform: Regular LinkedIn, Sales Navigator or LinkedIn Recruiter. The last two are greyed out unless your plan includes them.

Step 5: set the daily limit, then start

Open Campaign Config on the right and set Max Visits Per Day. Regular LinkedIn offers 100 or 250, a Business plan 300 or 450, Recruiter 500, Sales Navigator 800.

Choose the lowest number that does the job. LinkedIn reacts to sudden jumps in activity far more than to steady volume, so a new account running 450 visits on day one is the fastest way to get restricted.

Press Start. It becomes a red Stop, finished cards get a Visited badge, and the active card shows Visiting with a progress bar.

A campaign mid-run in connect mode, on page 2 of the search.

Leave the LinkedIn tab open. Linkedroid drives a real browser tab, so closing it stops the work.

What changed since 2020

• The modes were renamed, and Scan Profile is new.
• Daily limits are now tied to your plan and platform.
• Connection requests can carry an AI-written note, different for every profile.
• Multi-step sequences moved to the drip campaign flow builder.

For the full walkthrough see Running your first search campaign in Linkedroid, and for per-profile notes see AI personalization.

Questions to help@linkedroid.com.