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10 Ways to Leverage Your LinkedIn Company Page in 2023

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Your LinkedIn Company Page (called LinkedIn Page) is an important branding opportunity that many businesses aren’t taking advantage of. When you create a company page, you can develop thought leadership, share content from your company’s influencers, reveal your company culture to attract new talent, and increase your company’s visibility!

When used effectively, your LinkedIn Company Page can be your business’ content hub—the first thing that your target buyers see when they research your company’s products and services.

To learn how to optimize your LinkedIn company page, watch the video below, or continue reading to learn the keys to making the most out of your LinkedIn Page.

Stats That Prove the Value of Your LinkedIn Company Page

When it comes to B2B networking, LinkedIn® has some significant numbers. A study done by Neil Patel states that LinkedIn® is responsible for 97% of a business’ social media leads!

This data is backed up by LinkedIn®, whose stats show:

That means LinkedIn® is crucial to your B2B success. So, you need to make sure that your LinkedIn Company Page and the profiles of employees have customer-centric messaging that addresses the needs of the modern buyer.

In fact, according to LinkedIn®, companies that:

But there’s more. Your LinkedIn Company Page can be the basis of your employee advocacy program. This is the perfect place to share the best posts from your employees (especially sales reps) because on average, employees typically have 10x the reach as the company. When they engage on a post, their connections will see it as well.

And don’t forget to share images and videos. Images generally see a 2x higher comment rate, and video is 5x more likely to spark a conversation than any other type of content shared on LinkedIn®.

In this article, I’ll share what you need to do step by step to ensure that your LinkedIn Company Page is fully optimized and becomes the content hub for your employee advocacy!

10 LinkedIn Company Page Best Practices

Even if you know how important a LinkedIn Profile Transformation is for your sales reps, you may miss a great opportunity with your LinkedIn ® Company Page. Many still overlook the benefits your page can offer.

Don’t miss this opportunity! Follow the 10 steps below to maximize your impact.

(And, keep reading to the end! That’s where you’ll find some bonus content!)

Make sure to create banner images for your @LinkedIn Company Page. Consider creating different banners for your employees as well to highlight new products and services, and events. - @LinkedInExpert #SellingWithLinkedIn #LinkedInTips #BusinessClick To Tweet

Step #1: Take Advantage of Your Company Page Banner

Prioritize the branding of your Company Page. A visually appealing page that shows off your company’s branding will make your visitors more interested and encourage them to read more of your great content and follow your page for the latest updates.

Similar to the LinkedIn banner for individuals, your LinkedIn ® Company Page background image provides the perfect opportunity to create a strong and branded visual. Here are some types of LinkedIn content to consider:

Just because you chose the banner once, doesn’t mean you’re stuck with it forever. In fact, you can create different background images for all types of events, such as:

When it comes to the background image, you always have options. That is, as long as your banners are the right size. Here are the recommended image sizes:

  1. Company logo image size: 268 (w) x 268 (h) pixels
  2. LinkedIn company page banner size: 1128 (w) x 191 (h) pixels

 

Step #2: Create LinkedIn® Showcase Pages

Showcase pages are subpages that highlight your products, services, or initiatives. For each Showcase page, you can add a unique product logo, banner, and description for that specific service. Make sure to use a professional logo generator or hire a designer to get the job done so that your overall company profile looks well put-together. You can even share content on these pages.

Here are three easy steps to create LinkedIn® Showcase pages:

 

Step #3: Optimize Native Content to Your LinkedIn Company Page

Make the “About Us” section about your audience. Don’t focus on your mission, years, business, or even company story here. Instead, make it about your buyer. After all, they are the hero of this story. Let them know who you help and how you solve their problem(s).

Tip!! LinkedIn® Pages are SEO-friendly, just like individual profiles. Google indexes 156 characters of your page text, so be sure that your description leads with a powerful, keyword-rich copy, that way you will do SEO for a LinkedIn business page. LinkedIn members can search for companies by keyword, so include words and phrases that describe your business, expertise, and industry focus, that way you will leverage LinkedIn SEO.

Here are some keys to remember:

Show how your #business can solve your target #buyers pain points through optimizing your native content. Use your #LinkedIn Company Page to position your company as an industry leader that's here to give a lending hand.#ContentMarketing @LinkedInExpertClick To Tweet

Step #4: Take Advantage of More Native Content

But wait, there are more ways for you to leverage native content! LinkedIn® recently introduced Taglines and a new CTA button to drive traffic wherever you want. This is above and beyond in your description section and part of other updates to the LinkedIn business page.

Make sure to edit those two new features and think about your Tagline and Button as CTA’s for whatever the banner is promoting, whether it’s your company, new products or services, or events.

Other than that, you also need to add your company’s:

If you have a Premium LinkedIn® page, you can also add Career Pages and Culture pages, which gives you even more ways to provide information about your company. (More on this later.)

Step #5: Share Content Centered on Your Company Employees

When a prospect comes to your Company Page on LinkedIn®, they can see all the employees who work for you. Ensure everyone has updated their LinkedIn® profile to include your company in their experience section. Then, ask them to follow your LinkedIn Company Page.

Then, use your page to highlight your company culture. When you put outstanding employees in the limelight, you could create content by:

You could also post LinkedIn profile videos, images, or blogs that highlight your company culture. This shows viewers what it’s like to work at your company, and will increase positive sentiment.

Plus, if you upgrade to LinkedIn Premium and you’re focused on hiring, you could turn your LinkedIn® Company Page to a lifestyle page. The lifestyle pages, as well as company photos, can help display an atmosphere where people will want to work, which can help your recruiting efforts. Many talent acquisition teams and recruiters also use recruitment software to accelerate their hiring processes – source, screen, interview, schedule, and nurture in a single platform.

Employees should also be stars of your #company. Share content on your #LinkedIn Company Page that are centered on them, says @LinkedInExpert, CVO and Co-founder of Vengreso #SellingWithLinkedIn #DigitalSelling #SalesLeadershipClick To Tweet

Step #6: Share Relevant Content

Speaking of content, consistently share relevant content that adds value to your target audience. Creating and sharing content on your Company Page is a great way to increase engagement and visibility.

When your current LinkedIn followers see your content on their main feed, they will engage with posts that resonate with them. Then, their connections might see your posts as well, increasing your reach.

Consequently, you must be thoughtful about the content you share, and share it with a purpose. To get the most out of your Company Page, you must share 3rd party content in addition to your content.

One mistake many companies make is to either share no content at all or only post job-listings. Those posts are like advertisements and don’t provide value. As a result, people don’t engage with them.

And, similar to an individual, you want to focus on creating more engagement. That’s why not having an engagement strategy is one of the 7 Deadly LinkedIn® Mistakes.

Some of the types of content to share are:

Some ideas for content are:

Most importantly, don’t just share information about your company. Your updates should be 50% your company content and 50% 3rd party content that your audience might find useful.

And always make sure that 90% is informational and 10% or less is promotional. Otherwise, your followers will feel like you’re spamming them.

TIP!! When sharing, don’t just add the link. You have 1200 characters (including the link) to work with. Describe the post and tell people why they should read it. Ask them to comment or share it. Start a conversation! Engagement is a key to expanding your audience.

Step #7: Make Your Linkedin Company Page a Content Hub

Your LinkedIn® Company Page is a “Content Hub” and a resource where you can point your employees so they can easily share your content with their networks.

A great resource is an eBook that LinkedIn® created about Employee Advocacy. Unless your employees are also sharing your content, it’s unlikely that you will grow your Company Page following quickly without using sponsored content ads. So, make it easy for your employees to share your content!

Inform your employees of new content on your Company Page every week and encourage them to share it with their connections. Simply copy some links from Company Page posts. Then your employees can click and share with their own networks.

Other options for sharing your content is to put the links in a company forum or use some other kind of employee advocacy management system. Some options are LinkedIn®’s own Elevate, GaggleAMP, EveryoneSocial, and other employee amplification and advocacy tools.

You might be 90% there with your LinkedIn® Page and content, but without employee amplification, it’s almost like dialing into your favorite radio station: there’s only a lot of static and no satisfaction!

Step #8: Make Some of Your Team Members Administrators

Administrators can share content for your company, which can help amplify your reach through the content shared on your page. So, how to add an admin to a LinkedIn company page?

To do this, just go to “Manage Page,” choose “Admin Tools,” then click on “Manage Admins.” Add the 1st level connections whom you want to be administrators of the page. You can then teach your new administrators how to share a LinkedIn post on a company page by clicking on “Updates.” See the section “How to Add Admin Roles to Your LinkedIn Company Page” for detailed instructions.

Step #9: Make Use of Sponsored vs Targeted Updates

Get your company updates in front of a targeted audience with targeted and sponsored updates. Either way, make sure the content you promote has a call to action and form that can help you capture your viewers, such as an eBook download or event registration.

Targeted Updates: Once you have at least 1,000 people in each segment, you can target content specifically to that audience. This is GREAT when differentiating content for Investors, consumers or job candidates. Best of all, Targeted Updates are free!

Sponsored Updates: Sponsored updates are paid posts that allow you to reach a broader professional network. If you would like some content to get even more visibility, or if you want to get your content in front of people who aren’t following your LinkedIn Company Page (or your employees) you can pay to sponsor it. However, it’s important to analyze the performance of LinkedIn ads to make adjustments in the following campaigns. Make sure that you have access to LinkedIn ads data at any time by transferring it to the data warehouse.

It’s much easier to create your content on your Company Page, and then sponsor it, as opposed to creating new content to sponsor:

It’s always best to share content organically, via your Company Page, and employee amplification. But sometimes, you need to boost that visibility by using sponsored content with your LinkedIn ® Company Page.

Employee amplification can greatly help expand the reach of your Company’s organic updates. Ask them to share your #content to bring in more of your target audience to your #LinkedIn Company Page! @LinkedInExpert #EmployeeAdvocacy #DigitalSellingClick To Tweet

Step #10: Engage with Your Audience

The last step to maximizing your LinkedIn Company Page is to interact with the people who are engaging with your posts with likes, comments, and shares. As an administrator of your page, you have access to the analytics behind your page’s activity to see the people who are engaging with your posts and mentioning your company on LinkedIn®. Take advantage of this and connect back. Start engaging with their content.

They have already shown an interest in your content. Perhaps you can forward the contact to a sales rep who can build a relationship to turn the connection into a sales conversation.

Step #11 (Bonus Tip!): Follow Through Engagement

Even if people conceptually know that you have a LinkedIn Company Page, they don’t always take the second step of following it. Sometimes, you need to make an extra effort to get people to follow it.

Some examples are:

Yes, you are basically asking people already following you to follow you somewhere else. But since some people spend more time on LinkedIn®, they need to know about your LinkedIn page, especially if you’ve properly optimized it by following these easy tips for LinkedIn company page.

How to grow LinkedIn company page followers? Easy! Actively sharing your LinkedIn Page will increase your visibility. This, in turn, will increase your traffic, which will increase your followers, so that the next time you share a post even more people will see it!

How to Add Admin Roles to Your LinkedIn Company Page

As mentioned above, you should make some of your team members administrators of your LinkedIn Company Page.  There are three types of admin roles you can add:

1. Super Admin

This role manages everything on the Page. It’s the only role that can edit the Page and manage all admins.

2. Content Admin

This role posts and manages content, comments as the Page, and exports analytics.

3. Analyst

This role only views and exports analytics on Linkedin and will have limited access to 3rd party partners’ tools.

LinkedIn Company Page Managing Admin Roles

How to Add Paid Media Admins to Your LinkedIn Company Page

If you have team members in charge of paid advertising and you are using LinkedIn ads, then you can add paid media admins to your LinkedIn Company Page. Here are a couple of roles available:

1. Sponsored content poster

This role creates Sponsored Content ads on behalf of your Page from a LinkedIn Ad account. The ads aren’t shown on your Page feed.

2. Lead gen forms manager

This role downloads leads from your Page’s LinkedIn Ad account.

LinkedIn Company Page Managing Paid Media Admins

To add one of these roles, click on the blue button that says “Add paid media admin,” then search for the team member by name and check the boxes of the roles you want to assign to that person. Then click “Save.”

LinkedIn Company Page Managing Add Paid Media Admins

Check out LinkedIn Pages FAQs and Building your Company’s Brand for more information about leveraging your LinkedIn Company Page.

How to Remove an Ex-Employee from Your LinkedIn Company Page

Employees at your company can easily associate themselves with your company page by stating they work there. But sometimes they leave the company and don’t update their profile. If you want to remove an ex-employee from your company page, do the following:

  1. Go to LinkedIn’s Contact Us page here.
  2. Add the link to the ex-employee’s profile.
  3. Add your Company’s name.
  4. Select whether the person was reported previously or not.
  5. Explain why you want the person removed.
  6. Provide your digital signature.

LinkedIn Contact Form

Submitting this information will not necessarily result in the removal of the ex-employee. LinkedIn will investigate the claim and inform the person that they will be removed within 14 days unless they receive a valid Counter-Notice. If so, LinkedIn will let you know.

How to Grow Your LinkedIn Company Page Followers:

In this attached 30-min video I hosted the Head of Content Strategy from Going.io on The Modern Sales Mastery Show and asked him the million dollar question, how did you grow our LinkedIn Company page followers from 12K to 112K in just 4 years? I remember four years ago when we were creating our LinkedIn Sales Mastery program we took a picture of the number of followers Gong had then. It was 4,500 followers. The funny part here at Vengreso we started at 0 and in four and a half years we went to 11,400 followers. When we crossed the chasm of 11,000 we were overjoyed!

In this training video with Devin you will learn how to grow your followers and the best practices to make your followers explode. You’ll also learn about LinkedIn Company Pages Employee Advocacy function, how to post, when to post, what to post and the power of using the PIN a post feature!

Watch this interview now.

What About LinkedIn Product Pages?

LinkedIn Product Pages are a part of the LinkedIn Pages ecosystem, that focus on generating highly qualified leads and building a product community. How?

  • Showcasing customers
  • Leveraging images and videos
  • Displaying ratings and reviews
  • Adding custom call-to-action buttons for a demo request or a contact form

Product Pages are currently only available for B2B software and are gradually rolling out to other product areas.

Visitors can access Product Pages through a tab at the top of your LinkedIn Company Page. If you have just one Product Page, the “Products” tab will take the visitor directly to that Product Page.

If you have several Product Pages (you can create up to 35), the tab will take them to the Products summary page, which lists all published Product Pages in alphabetical order. Each product on this summary page will show its logo, name, category, connections with the product as a skill, and a short summary of the product description.  To generate high-quality product descriptions for free, you can use this tool.

To create a Product Page:

  • Access your Page Super or Content admin view.
  • Click the Products tab in the top navigation.
  • Click the Add product button.
  • Enter your product name and click Save. You’ll be routed to your new Product Page.
  • Enter all required information by clicking the Edit icon next to each field. Required fields are highlighted.
  • You have the option to enter additional information.
  • The Add category field is a typeahead field. Click and type in it to see category options.
  • If your product is a suite, you can choose more than one category.
  • Your default Community hashtag is your #productname. For example, ABC Tools would be #abctools. Custom hashtags aren’t currently available.
  • Click the Save button for each item edited.
  • Click the Submit for review button.

LinkedIn takes up to 2 weeks to review your submission. You’ll receive a notification in your Activity tab once the approval process is complete.

Once approved, you can publish your Product Page following these steps:

  • Click the Activity tab in the top navigation.
  • Click the View product button, then Publish product.

Lead Generation Forms

Recently, LinkedIn added a new feature to every Product Page: Lead Generation Forms.

Lead Generation Forms are one-click form submission experiences.  Members who visit your Product Page have the option to open and submit a pre-filled form with their information.

To add a lead generation form, follow these steps:

  1. Access your Page admin view.
  2. Click the Products tab.
  3. Click the Product Page name on the left side.
  4. Click the Edit icon next to the call-to-action button.
  5. Click the Collect leads icon.
  6. Enter your Privacy policy URL. (required)
  7. Click the Save button.

Increase Your Company’s Visibility

Your Company Page is your gateway to boosting your business’s online profile. Whether you intend to build thought leadership, increase your leads, or acquire top talent, your page can help you.

Yet, your LinkedIn Page is not the only page on LinkedIn® that you should optimize. You should make sure that your sales team’s personal LinkedIn® profiles are optimized as well, with buyer-centric messaging that addresses your buyer’s needs, especially in their LinkedIn headlines!

10 thoughts on “15 LinkedIn Profile Optimization Tips to Get Found This 2023”

  1. My LinkedIn account was ranking on the first page for best mommys blog keyword quite a few years back and I didn’t have any idea. While working, I stumbled upon the Analytic section of LinkedIn and saw that most of the visitors are coming from search engine later on I realized that in my profile I’ve used “Mommy’s blog” word a lot of time and that is the reason why it was ranking well on SERP. This is how I came to know about SEO and I was also amazed by the fact that how easy it was to rank for competitive keywords back then. Anyways loved your article and please share more tips on SEO.

  2. There is a lot of value in this article, especially for those looking to improve their visibility on LinkedIn. My favorite of the fifteen tips shared in this article is number nine. I’ve observed that people with custom profile links, seem to get more attention than those who haven’t customized their LinkedIn profile URL. Interesting article, thank you for taking the time to put it together.

  3. I agree with the recommendations, they are a very important part of our strategy on LinkedIn, it can give confidence to potential customers (or leaders when someone is looking for a job).

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