How To Add Video To Your LinkedIn Profile

Posted on: Monday, May 11th, 2009
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Late tonight, I got a mysterious email from @bigmanweston.

“Check out my LinkedIn profile.”

And, sure enough, he’d done something cool.

He added a video to his profile.

If you’ve been dabbling in SEO for a while, you know that LinkedIn is a great place to get some links back to your site. But until recently, there hasn’t been an awful lot of chatter about adding video.

Here’s how to do it. I’ve added a quick screencast video of how to do it as well.


1) Add Google Presentations To Your Profile
Scroll down and add Google Presentations to your profile.

2)Create A Google Presentation
If you don’t already have a presentation, then click “Create a Presentation”.

3) Insert Video
Once you have your first slide, click Insert>Video. You’ll get a YouTube search window. Find a video you’d like to add and then select it.

Scale the video to the right size to fit your presentation.

4) Insert a link
Click on the “Text” button and add the text you want to add. Click the “Link” button and add your URL to the link.

5) Share Your Presentation
Click on the “Share” button and choose “Share” or “Embed”. This allows LinkedIn to see your presentations.

6) Select Your Presentation
Select your presentation from the screen on the left.

7) Post To Your Profile
Click “Post To Your Profile”.

And you’re done!



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  • ecdlcourses
    thanks, worjed a treat
  • Christine Pilch
    I use the Slideshare app to add video to my LinkedIn profile. I prefer this option because it opens one more channel for my videos, which helps with SEO for my brand.

    - Christine Pilch
    http://www.slideshare.net/cpil...
  • Jane
    Hi I tried to follow but I didn't quite make it. I got my video embedded into Google presentations but then failed to get it to show up on my LinkedIn profile. Not sure quite where I went wrong.
  • InceptingReality
    Great guide, thanks, I wish there was an explanation of how to do this already on their site. I'm doing my best to get my video nominated for a really cool Video Production New Jersey competition but I'm just not that good at fighting with websites to make them upload videos and in high enough quality.
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  • Well done - neat description of this workaround - cheers.
  • Thanks, Rupert. I'm glad that you found it helpful. If you have any other questions that I can field for you please don't hesitate to ping me on Twitter @Talmadge
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