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LinkedIn has established itself as the largest and most popular professional networking website in the world, with millions of executives and business owners using the platform on a daily basis. As a result, LinkedIn has also become a go-to channel when it comes to generating leads, qualified appointments, and driving revenue. However, as more people use LinkedIn as a customer acquisition channel, LinkedIn gets stricter with the daily activity you’re allowed to do on their platform, including the amount of connection requests you can send. Fortunately, there is a way to bypass LinkedIn’s new activity limits and this guide will cover exactly how to do just that.
Current Activity Limits
First of all, it is super important we go over the current activity limits on LinkedIn. Full disclosure, long are the days where we could send hundreds of invites per day from just one account. Limits have been drastically reduced to the following:
Connection Requests: 20 per day
Inmails: 30 per day
Messages: 50 per day
Profile Views: 100 per day
Profile Scrapes: 2,500 per day
Accounts with a SSI (Social Selling Index) of 50 or more can do about 20% - 30% more daily activity than accounts without, but this is not always the case and varies from one account to the next.
Consequences of Spam
Naturally, people will try to abuse the daily limits with the hopes of reaching more decision makers and landing more qualified booked appointments. However, this is the worst thing you could do, as LinkedIn has a very strict policy when it comes to spam and third-party outreach/automation tools. Abusing the daily limits will flag your account and lead to either one of four punishments:
Warning: LinkedIn will temporarily restrict access to your account until you read their terms and agree to comply. You will have the chance to give express consent that you did read the terms and, once you do, you’ll have access restored to your account. However, once you’ve been warned, LinkedIn will be even stricter on your account moving forward.
Temporary Suspension: LinkedIn will place a 24 - 48 hour suspension on your account after which you’ll be prompted to agree to comply with their terms and have access restored to your account.
Temporary Ban: LinkedIn will restrict your account until you complete an ID verification process, which often takes 1 - 4 days to expedite. You need to provide valid government-issued IDs and a face scan in order to verify your identity.
Permanent Ban: LinkedIn will permanently ban your account without the chance of appeal. Creating a new one won’t work, as LinkedIn only allows one account per ID.
Solutions
So now that we’ve covered what happens when you try abusing LinkedIn’s daily limits, we can safely say that playing the “danger game” with an account is not the best way to go. Fortunately, there are other solutions you can leverage to connect with as many people as you need on LinkedIn and generate as many leads as possible.
Solution 1: Leverage Inmails
A quick solution would be to complement your connection request campaigns with LinkedIn Inmails. By combining Inmails with connect requests, you can reach about 50 new decision makers per day instead of just the traditional 20. Better yet, Inmails don’t require the prospect to actually connect with you first, so it is a great way to get your pitch across to more people without having to exhaust the first step of connecting with them.
A good outreach hack when it comes to using Inmails is to only tackle open profiles. Open profiles won’t eat away at your Inmail credits, allowing you to consistently reach more decision makers and making this a viable alternative to the traditional connection campaigns. Furthermore, by adding Sales Navigator to your account (we sell licenses for $45/month, btw) you can send even more Inmails, further scaling your campaigns.
Solution 2: Use Group Connections
You can send up to 100 messages to group members everyday. This is a hefty increase from the low 20 connection requests per day volume LinkedIn has placed on individual accounts. However, group connections are simply a short term solution, as LinkedIn is severely limiting the amount of messages you can send to group members precisely to avoid spam.
Solution 3: Deploy an Army of Accounts
LinkedIn’s daily limits apply to each and every account on their platform, which means that in order to send unlimited connection requests per day you will need unlimited accounts. Fortunately, websites like Akountify allow you to deploy an army of LinkedIn accounts all backed by real government issued IDs you can use to bypass LinkedIn’s daily connection request limit and reach more decision-makers every day.
Which One Is Better
Thinking long term, opting for solutions like Akountify is the best way to go. Here’s why:
While Inmails are a good complement, they can only add 30 extra activity per day on your account. That’s not enough. Same goes with group connections. Ultimately, with Solution 1 and Solution 2 you’ll still be capped at a daily limit, granted higher, but still a limit.
With Akountify you get the luxury of completely forgetting about the limits. You get to deploy your own army of LinkedIn accounts, send more connections on LinkedIn every day, and book more appointments in the process. Akountify is the only stable solution for the LinkedIn scalability problem.
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