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Why does LinkedIn do this? It seems so stupid and such a waste of time. Anyone know?
by Nicholas_C 13y ago
Why does LinkedIn do this? It seems so stupid and such a waste of time. Anyone know?
- aaronbrethorst 13y agoI assume it's because they want the SEO juice and Google frowns on showing different content to the Googlebot vs a human being, but they also want their users to make more connections. So, they sometimes show more content to logged-out visitors.
- corin_ 13y agoNot just because of SEO, although that's one reason. Logged in users are already sold on LinkedIn, so LinkedIn wants to encourage them to make more connections. The aim for guest visitors is to get them to sign-up, so showing them a more useful page is a better way of showing what value LinkedIn can offer them.
- Nicholas_C 13y agoInteresting. Someone should build a browser add in that shows logged out views of LinkedIn profiles even if the user is logged in, with the ability to toggle between the two views.
- joshfraser 13y agoSEO
- webhat 13y agoThey don't think people know. Or they assume you won't logout to look at somebody's page, I guess somebody forgot to tell them about Incognito browser windows.
- leokun 13y agoI don't know, but I frequently open up incognito windows to see people on linkedin.
- notahacker 13y agoBut a non-trivial proportion of people unfamiliar with cookies and what you can do with a combination of additional windows and google buy LinkedIn subscriptions...