LinkedIn is second most popular social networking website after Facebook and is particularly designed for business owners and people looking for career transition. This social networking website presently has more than 65,000,000 people linked on it.

It is not surprising to know that the average income of MORE THAN 38 % of LinkedIn users is $100,000 per year. That implies that a large portion of LinkedIn users have a good amount of money to shed off. Well, that’s definitely great news for the online marketers.

Using LinkedIn to your best advantage would get you more number of customers as well as more sales and not to mention better revenue. Here is how you can make use of LinkedIn to draw great quality traffic towards your blog:

Method #1: Create Your Profile

This is an obvious step. Design your profile and make it compelling enough to attract more amount of traffic and get more clicks on your profile.

Now you can add links on your blog inside LinkedIn Profile at two particular places. The first place is under the “Website”. This page would form an appropriate place to add the links to your blog under LinkedIn profile.
This should be your top priority. You want to make your profile as compelling as possible so that people want to click on your links and find out more about you.

There are two specific places where you can add links to your blog inside your LinkedIn Profile. When you are creating links, you have to be innovative and think of a compelling title like “My Blog”. You have to be creative to catch the eye of public.

The second place would be adding it under your profile summary. This one is important, a person reading your LinkedIn profile would want to know you better and chances of him clicking your website link are considerably high.
See the video below for a more detailed description on how to do this.

The second spot to add a link is under your Profile Summary. Here the links are not clickable, but it’s still an opportunity to add links to your Newsletter and squeeze pages. I’ve had a lot of people send me messages on LinkedIn to thank me for the resources under my summary. This is a good place to add additional links so that your connections can find out more about you.

Method #2: Post an Update

Well you must be familiar with this because this feature is similar to Facebook status (What’s on your mind feature?). All your updates will be posted on the profile updates of all your connections. Update it at least twice a week to increase the traffic flow towards your website. Post catchy and valuable updates that would insist users to view your website.

Method #3: Add WordPress Application

Now this is a wonderful application to use in LinkedIn. By installing this application, your latest blog wordpress will automatically be updated on your LinkedIn profile. This will in turn get more hits to your LinkedIn profile.

Method #4: Begin Your Own Group

Well this is a great way that can help you increase the number of people visiting your website. By creating a group you can add links to your website and at the same time every member in your group will be checking out your profile and website. This will help in increasing traffic.

The next way is to personally mail all members in the group. An event notification can be missed by a person but mails are usually checked by people without a miss.

All these interesting ways would definitely help you increase traffic to your website through LinkedIn.