Understand LinkedIn® Search Appearances and Visitor Analytics

Use LinkedIn® Search Appearances and visitor data to understand how people discover your Company Page and what that reveals about positioning and optimization.

Fox Tucker
LinkedIn® Company Page Management - Understand Search Appearances

Company Page analytics are not only about posts and followers. Search and visitor information can show how people discover the organization and who is arriving at the Page.

Use Search Appearances as discovery evidence

LinkedIn® Search Appearances shows how often the Page appeared in LinkedIn search during the reporting period. Depending on the data available, it can also show search terms and characteristics of members who searched for the Page.

Compare search language with your positioning

If people consistently discover the Page through terms that match the organization’s real expertise, your Page information and content may be reinforcing the right associations. Unexpected terms can reveal an opportunity or a positioning problem.

Use visitor data to understand interest

Visitor analytics can show Page views, unique visitors and available visitor demographics, subject to LinkedIn’s reporting options and privacy thresholds. Treat visitors as evidence of interest, not automatically as prospects or qualified demand.

Connect discovery to optimization

Return to the Page name, About section, industry, specialties and content themes you reviewed earlier. Search and visitor evidence can help you decide whether those elements describe the organization in language the intended audience actually uses.

LinkedIn currently separates Search Appearances from actual Page visits. Search reporting can include total appearances, recent searches, keywords used and available demographics about the people searching. Use those signals to understand discoverability rather than treating an appearance as a visit.

Your task

Record the most useful current Search Appearances terms and available visitor characteristics. Mark which reinforce your intended positioning, which surprise you and which Page element or content theme you should investigate as a result.

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Fox Tucker is Digital Marketing Director at Outlook Publishing and founder of Leaders Social. He created more than 40 free LinkedIn® media courses and specialises in LinkedIn® Company Pages, LinkedIn® profiles, digital strategy, SEO and online visibility.