{"id":4285,"date":"2024-06-03T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/how-do-you-optimize-for-the-algorithm\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:29:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:29:41","slug":"how-do-you-optimize-for-the-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/how-do-you-optimize-for-the-algorithm\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7203462980158513154>How do you optimize for the algorithm?<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you optimize for the algorithm?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a whole slew of people who will tell you what the latest changes in the LinkedIn algorithm are, so that you can get more views and engagement. <\/p>\n<p>I recently had a friend tell me that I should add pictures to my posts to make them more visible in the feed. As an experiment, I&#8217;ll add a picture from my Sunday bike ride to see if that helps with this post&#8217;s views and engagement. <\/p>\n<p>But mostly I don&#8217;t want to play that game of being dependent on staying ahead of the algorithm. I want to write good posts that are valuable to my readers. <\/p>\n<p>If you value the insights I share here, I encourage you to sign up for my biweekly newsletter so you aren&#8217;t dependent on the algorithm either. In each issue, I link to what I&#8217;ve been writing and reading, as well as three articles that I found thought provoking. I&#8217;ll link to yesterday&#8217;s issue in the comments (thanks, algorithm!) and there&#8217;s a link to subscribe at the bottom. <\/p>\n<p>P.S. I&#8217;ll make a tenuous connection between my picture and this post in that riding up a mountain on a bike doesn&#8217;t involve any secrets or tricks &#8211; it just requires the mental and physical discipline to keep turning the pedals. Spend your attention on doing the work, not on searching for ways to optimize or avoid the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you optimize for the algorithm? There&#8217;s a whole slew of people who will tell you what the latest changes in the LinkedIn algorithm are, so that you can get more views and engagement. I recently had a friend tell me that I should add pictures to my posts to make them more visible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4381,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}