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Linkedin Growth

The LinkedIn personal-profile growth playbook for 2026. Use when someone wants to "grow on LinkedIn," "get more LinkedIn followers/reach," "a Linke…

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By Frank Heijdenrijk, MIT licence. Shared here with credit.

linkedin-growth

The LinkedIn personal-profile growth engine — the profile as a landing page, what to post and how often, strategic commenting on target accounts, the golden hour, newsletters/video, and connections vs followers. The agent drafts posts + comment copy and designs the system; a human does the live commenting/connecting; scheduling-and-queue → WoopSocial publishes the posts. Complements linkedin-post-writer (the single-post craft) and linkedin-company-pages (the page).

The POV: dwell + comments, on a personal profile

LinkedIn's algorithm rewards dwell time (people actually reading) and early, meaningful comments — likes barely move distribution, and engagement bait is down-ranked. The feed is structurally tilted to people, not logos (personal profiles get ~65% of feed allocation; pages ~1–5%), external links in the body suppress reach (put them in the first comment), and posts now have a long shelf life via suggested feeds — a good post travels for days or weeks. The cheapest growth lever isn't posting more: it's thoughtful comments on bigger accounts in your niche, which put your name in front of their audience daily. And in a feed where ~half the long posts are AI-written, a specific, lived, first-person POV is the differentiator — not volume.

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