{"id":60,"date":"2009-08-28T11:28:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T15:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/misc\/60\/how-to-change-the-website-anchor-text-for-your-linkedin-profile\/"},"modified":"2015-05-09T16:18:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T20:18:44","slug":"changing-the-anchor-text-on-your-linkedin-profile-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/seo-tips\/60\/changing-the-anchor-text-on-your-linkedin-profile-links\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change the Website Anchor Text for your LinkedIn Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn lets you set three Websites in your profile.&#160; The default shows these as \u201cWebsite\u201d and \u201cBlog\u201d.&#160;&#160; You can change these to use whatever anchor text you want.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the steps to change the anchor text for a website link in your LinkedIn profile:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log into your LinkedIn account. <\/li>\n<li>On the left of the screen, click the Profile link. <\/li>\n<li>Scroll down until you see the Websites section, and click the Edit link for the link you want to change.&#160; I\u2019ve provided a screenshot showing where the Edit link will be:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"linkedin-profile-edit\" border=\"0\" alt=\"linkedin-profile-edit\" src=\"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/linkedinprofileedit.gif\" width=\"330\" height=\"484\" \/> <\/li>\n<li>In the dropdown (see the left arrow), change this to Other.&#160; You will now have a box where you can enter your anchor text.&#160; This is the right arrow below.&#160; You can change this to whatever you want.&#160; This will be your anchor text.      <br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"linkedin-change-anchor-text\" border=\"0\" alt=\"linkedin-change-anchor-text\" src=\"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/linkedinchangeanchortext1.gif\" width=\"408\" height=\"197\" \/> <\/li>\n<li>When finished, click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the screen.&#160; <\/li>\n<li>Now, when you view your Profile, you will see your link with your anchor text! <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn lets you set three Websites in your profile.&#160; The default shows these as \u201cWebsite\u201d and \u201cBlog\u201d.&#160;&#160; You can change these to use whatever anchor text you want. Here are the steps to change the anchor text for a website link in your LinkedIn profile: Log into your LinkedIn account. On the left of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[63,62],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo-tips","tag-anchor-text","tag-linkedin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}