LinkedIn X-Ray Search

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Contents of the Webinar

What is a X-Ray Search & Advantages

Understand the URL pattern of LinkedIn

Examples of Search Strings

Online tools for X-ray Search

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X-ray Search and Its Advantages

X-ray search is a process of identifying information from a particular website/domain. It is called a site search.

Syntax used Google - site:Yahoo - domain: or site:Live (MSN) - domain: or site:

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Advantages of X-ray search on LinkedIn:

• Unlimited profile views for free

• 88% of all the LinkedIn profiles are publicly accessible, that means we can view these profiles for free

• Full names are visible for any degree (for free)

• Can view out of network connections (for free)

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URL Patterns on Linkedin

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Default URL:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/yusuf-pathan/23/9b/184

(First time when you create your LinkedIn profile, LinkedIn allocates a default URL pattern by default as shown in the above URL.

• You will have pub after linkedin.com/ and some combination of numbers after the name.

Customised/Personalised URL:

http://in.linkedin.com/in/keyresourcing

Linkedin allows you to customise/personalise your public profile URL as shown above in the URL.

Once you customise/personalise your URL the word “pub” and the “number combination” gets replaced by “in” and your personalised name.

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URL Patterns on Linkedin

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Country specific URLs:

Indiahttp://in.linkedin.com/pub OR http://in.linkedin.com/in

United Kingdomhttp://uk.linkedin.com/pub OR http://uk.linkedin.com/in

Keyword Selection:

Understand the LinkedIn profiles and patterns used in LinkedIn. You can include phrases like “people you know” “looking for a new opportunity”

-“present” “2014”

Exclude Directories:

(inurl:com/pub | inurl:com/in) -inurl:pub/dir

Exclude false positive results

Exclude other Keywords:

You can exclude certain keywords like - -inurl:jobs –inurl:profiles

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Examples of Search Strings on Linkedin

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(site:in.linkedin.com/pub | site:in.linkedin.com/in) ("software engineer" at *) "looking for a new opportunity" -inurl:pub/dir

First example

Second Example

(site:in.linkedin.com/pub | site:in.linkedin.com/in) ("software engineer" at *) "people you know" -dir -jobs

site:in.linkedin.com/in/ -"present" 2014

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Online tools for X-ray Search on LinkedIn

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http://recruitin.net/

http://recruitmentgeek.com/tools/linkedin/

Google Custom Search Engine is the best way to create your X-Ray search machine. Check our earlier recorded webinar on creating Google Custom Search Engine at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4ktgrYZ8I0Or Subscribe to our YouTube Channel which is https://www.youtube.com/user/certifiedsourcingpro

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Hint for the contest

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Peeling back is the process of “retracing the path” of the url. This process is to locate the information elsewhere on the site or locate the specific “root” folder where one can find similar or additional data specific or related to the search.

Peeling Back

Example of Peeling Back on Linkedin

https://www.linkedin.com/msgToConns?displayCreate=&connId=2266439&goback=%2Enpv_19187967_*1_*1_NAME*4SEARCH_WQQz_*1_en*4US_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_tyah2_*1&trk=prof-0-sb-message-button

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