Archive for September, 2010

Where Do You Rank In LinkedIn’s Search Results?

Tweet Have you ever wondered where you rank in the search results when other people search for you or people like you in LinkedIn? Have you ever searched for yourself on LinkedIn? Do you know here you rank in the results? From my research and observations, most of what the LinkedIn experts and gurus advise [...]

LinkedIn

LinkedIn Demographics and Visitor Statistics

Tweet If you have ever been curious about LinkedIn’s demographics, as well as LinkedIn’s visitor statistics broken down by country, city, and state, you’ve come to the right place! A while ago I stumbled across a very interesting and powerful website called Quantcast, which is used by 9 of the top 10 media agencies because [...]

Analytics, Diversity Sourcing, LinkedIn

Bing Beats Google for the Best Way to X-Ray Search LinkedIn

Tweet 11/13/11 Note: I’ve provided some updated LinkedIn X-Ray search string syntax examples at the end of this post. I recently received a message via LinkedIn from Gary Cozin, an accomplished, well known player and knowledge sharer in sourcing circles, asking me a question: “You know when we xray Google for LI profiles we can [...]

Bing, Google, How-To's, LinkedIn, x-ray search

How to Automatically Build Boolean OR Strings

Tweet Writing Boolean search strings is typically a quick and simple affair, as most search engines and databases won’t let you construct anything longer than a few hundred characters. However, if you’re not constrained to a fixed limit on search terms (such as Google’s 32 words) or characters, it’s no longer a simple matter of [...]

Boolean, How-To's