Top 5 reasons for LinkedIn to suspend your account

Do you have a LinkedIn account? Do you use it for networking and business development? If you are like me and cannot imagine life without LinkedIn, read on to find out when and why LinkedIn can suspend your account! Of course this is far from a complete list, but certainly includes the top mistakes that could end up with your LinkedIn account suspended.

1. I-Don’t-Knows popularly known as IDKs

LinkedIn is a professional network, and is very (very, very!) strict on the invites you send to unknown people. If 3 people claim they do not know you from the invitations you sent out, you will earn a warning and if 7 people claim IDK, then you get a restricted account. Any more IDKs would mean a suspended account. For more on restricted accounts, check this…

2. Spam or Abuse

If you are accused of spamming or abuse, LinkedIn will instantly restrict your account regardless of its validity, until you email them requesting verification for the reason (In this case, it’s guilty until proven innocent!). For spamming guidelines inside LinkedIn groups, check this…

3. Page Views

If you’re visiting many profiles per day, LinkedIn will suspend your account because they think you are “Phishing” or downloading personal information from the site.

4. Profile Pictures that are NOT Professional

Yes!! As I mentioned before, LinkedIn is a network for professionals. So you might want to make sure your profile photo is truly professional. Something inappropriate- even the use of a business logo as your picture - will lead to suspended accounts.

5. And the latest mistake – Adding to Your Name

Ensure you have only your name as the title and nothing else. Any special characters or email ID next to your name automatically ends in a suspended account. For example, if your name is David Rooney, it cannot be David Rooney (Toplinked/Lion/5000+/email Id).

Do you know of any other reasons why your LinkedIn account can be suspended? Please let me know.