How to See Who Viewed Your Linkedin Profile (Simple Steps)

If you are new to Linkedin and just set up your profile, you would be curious to know who viewed your Linkedin profile once you have set it up for public viewing. You would want to know if there are potential employees who are viewing at your Linkedin profile or not. Here we are going to show you the simple steps on how to enable this. 

However, these steps are for people who do not subscribe to the Linkedin premium. With Linkedin premium, you would be able to see who viewed your profile as it is part of the premium package.

WHY SEE WHO VIEWED YOUR PROFILE?

1. FOR IMPROVING YOUR PROFILE DETAILS – By knowing who visited your profile and where do they work, you could use that information to further improve your Linkedin details.
2. FOR NETWORKING – If you know who viewed your profile, you would also know who can you reach out to expand your Linkedin network.

So, if you are interested to learn how to do this, here are the steps.

Step 1

At your Linkedin profile, tap at the icon settings above

Step 2

At Settings, tap at “Privacy”

Step 3

At Privacy settings, tap at “Profile viewing options”

Step 4

At “Profile viewing” options, you will see if you have selected private mode or not

If you have selected private mode, you could not see who viewed your Linkedin profile

Step 5

You can turn off the private mode by choosing your “Profile viewing” to “Your name and headline”

This way people can see if you have viewed their Linkedin profile and vice versa.

Step 6

Go to your Linkedin profile and tap at “Who viewed your profile”

You will see the list of people who viewed your profile there and where do they work

Step 7

At your profile, tap at “Search appearances”

Here you can see your Linkedin search appearances and where does this come from

So, there you have it – Simple steps on how to know who viewed your Linkedin profile. Please leave us a comment below on what other ways you could see who viewed you.

Please also read our previous article on how to hide your activity status on Linkedin.