How to increase your LinkedIn limits

This article explains how to increase your daily limits to automate LinkedIn activities for more prospects.

LinkedIn sets limits on platform usage and the number of activities accounts can perform. However, there are safe ways to increase your daily action limits when using LinkedIn automation in Snov.io.

Connect more LinkedIn accounts

If one account's limits aren't enough for your outreach, connect additional LinkedIn profiles to Snov.io to use as senders in your campaigns.

Each LinkedIn account requires a slot. To connect more accounts, first add slots on the LinkedIn accounts page.

LinkedIn slots are flexible and have prorated billing: you pay for the slot, not per account connection.

This means you can change the profile connected to the slot up to 3 times a month. We use dedicated proxies for each account to ensure they have a unique footprint (so LinkedIn sees them as separate users).

Important: LinkedIn policy states users can only have one account and recommends merging duplicate accounts.

If you decide to use multiple LinkedIn profiles at the same time, consider using the accounts of your team members. If LinkedIn detects duplicate profiles of one user, it may close or restrict them.

Warm-up LinkedIn accounts

If your account has been inactive, warm it up before using automation: post content, comment on posts, and connect with more people from your industry.

The goal of the warm-up is to establish your presence and brand on LinkedIn before launching any campaigns. It will help to add automation without causing suspicion.

In addition, enable automatic warm-up for connected LinkedIn accounts.

When you start a campaign, it will automatically increase your connection requests until the daily limit reaches your goal. Your desired outreach volumes will be seen by LinkedIn as natural and usual.

Use LinkedIn account rotation

As your prospect list grows, one LinkedIn account may not be enough to perform a sequence for more leads.

Setting high limits on just one account will likely lead to a ban. A safer way to increase your limits is by using LinkedIn rotation. It allows connecting multiple  accounts to the same campaign.

In your campaign settings, you can add up to 5 LinkedIn sender accounts. Snovio will rotate them automatically and assign prospects equally to each account.

Account rotation increases your total daily volume while allowing to keep each profile within recommended action limits. Learn how to use it.

To enable rotation, add at least two LinkedIn accounts in the campaign settings. Once a LinkedIn profile performs the first action in the sequence, that sender is assigned to the recipient for the rest of the sequence.

Follow LinkedIn's guidelines

LinkedIn does not publish the exact weekly limit for sending requests or messages, and LinkedIn Premium plans don’t officially raise it.

As stated by LinkedIn, all LinkedIn members (Free, Basic and Premium) are subject to invitation limits and restrictions.

What LinkedIn Premium really gives you:

• InMail credits for InMail messages – contact prospects on LinkedIn without sending a connection request.

• Bigger profile view limit on Sales Navigator

• Unlimited personalized requests: Premium users can add messages with every connection request. Free accounts can add a note to only 5 requests per month.

Following best practices helps protect your account, regardless of the LinkedIn plan you have. Learn more about safe LinkedIn outreach in our blog post.

Improve SSI score

For higher limits, your accounts need to develop and maintain a good reputation on LinkedIn. There’s a special metric for that – the SSI score. A higher score reflects a stronger account ready to perform more actions.

Before increasing your limits, check your SSI score first and see what limit it supports. Setting a higher limit could result in LinkedIn blocking your account.

Monitor your score directly in your LinkedIn account settings.

The SSI grows from positive engagement, the quality of your network and the completion of your profile.

Here’s a checklist to increase your SSI score:

• Complete every profile section—headline, summary, skills, and experience.

• Publish at least one post per week.

• Share original content with personal insights or industry expertise.

• Connect with professionals in your industry, not just potential leads.

• Comment on trending posts in your field.

• Join relevant LinkedIn groups and events.

To grow your SSI score, be active on LinkedIn: create original posts, comment and share relevant posts (including your prospects' posts). Read more in our blog.

Use flexible (dynamic) limits

The Fixed limit is the default setting for all connected LinkedIn accounts. In this mode, your account performs the same number of actions according to your limits.

If you set a fixed limit higher than recommended for your SSI score, the risk of your account being blocked increases. LinkedIn algorithms can detect the repetitive actions.

To make limit increases safer, use the Flexible limit mode. This option randomizes the number of actions.

In flexible mode, adding a few actions more over your "safe limit" won't be as risky, because your activity will vary.

To activate the flexible limits, use the toggle in your LinkedIn account settings. Then set a range (min and max) for each action type.

Your account will automatically choose a random number of actions each day between the minimum and maximum limit.

See our recommended flexible limits by SSI score.

Use Email as a backup or additional channel

When your LinkedIn limit isn’t enough to contact all your prospects, combine it with the email channel. The limits for email are much higher than LinkedIn's, allowing you to compensate for the lower limits in your LinkedIn account.

Snov.io’s campaigns are multichannel. Add both email and LinkedIn actions to your sequences to combine the limits from the two channels. In our Finder tools, you get prospects with contacts for both channels: LinkedIn URL and email address.

Manage pending requests

Control the number of connection requests left in the waiting status. Having too many pending requests may negatively affect your account’s rating. It signals that you’re sending invitations to people who do not expect them or aren’t interested.

Snov.io helps you track your pending requests and can automatically keep their number within the recommended limit. Set the automatic mode for request management and monitor them directly on the Connection requests page.

Monitor LinkedIn statistics

When your LinkedIn actions have high engagement rates, you can set higher limits with a lower risk of restrictions, as LinkedIn will view your activities as well-targeted. For example, if your acceptance rate is above 40-50%, you can try increasing the request limit.

Monitor the automation results and adjust the limits based on the engagement. Check your LinkedIn statistics on the Reports dashboard.