- What's going on, everyone?
My name's Larry Snow,
and in this video we're gonna be taking a look
at how to add a LinkedIn profile badge to your website.
So, let's get started.
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So, before I actually show you
how to get this profile badge on your website,
we're gonna take a look at it
as it's currently on my website, larrysnow.me.
I have it over in the sidebar,
but you could put this anywhere once you grab the code
from LinkedIn and you could put it anywhere,
blog post, page, wherever.
So, the question you might have is
why would you wanna put this on your website?
Well, it's a great way to cross-promote
your LinkedIn profile to people who visit your website.
It's a great way to perhaps get people interested
to see if you wanted to get on a project,
or a new job opportunity, or to network
with like-minded individuals.
So, it's a great way to say, "Hey, I'm on LinkedIn, too,
"I'm just not on Twitter and Facebook.
"Go check me out on LinkedIn."
So, with that being said,
I'm gonna show you how you can actually do this yourself.
First step is to come over to your LinkedIn profile.
Now, I'm on the desktop, it might look a little different
on the mobile version.
The next thing you gotta do is you gotta click on
Edit your public profile here on the right hand side.
And if you scroll all the way down
on the right hand side here it says
Your public profile badge,
Create a public profile badge, click on that.
And that takes you to the
Public profile badge builder.
Wow, that's a mouthful.
All right, and there are certain steps here
and some Plugin Terms of Use that you can read on your own,
that you can take a look at.
Step one is to copy the JavaScript
that will actually keep track of
who's coming to your badge,
and to also make the badge work
along with the formatting, right?
So, we grab that JavaScript code, let's just do that.
We're just gonna copy that
and I'm just gonna put it in a text editor,
new document, paste that in.
Then we'll scroll down here
and it says, Step 2, choose a badge.
Now, they have a different variety of badges,
different sizes, you could go 330, 280,
so those are square.
Then you can scroll down here
and there's badge number two,
which is more of a rectangle type of shape.
So, depending on how, it also captures a little bit
of your background graphic
that you can have on your profile.
So, whichever you prefer, just grab the code.
I'm gonna stick with the one I have on my website already,
so I'm just gonna click Copy the code.
And then I'm gonna go over to my text editor
and I'm gonna paste that in.
So, now that we have our code
I'm gonna go over to our WordPress website
and take a look at how to add it to our sidebar.
So, here we are over on my website
in the backend on the Widgets tab.
And all I did was I added in a Text,
right, just drag in into the right sidebar,
just drag in a Text element.
I go to the Text version
because we know WordPress just updated these widgets.
So, I go to the text version to put in the code.
I go over to my text editor, I copy the code,
and then I paste it in.
Now, I'm not gonna click Save because I already have one.
So, I'm just gonna delete that,
but that's how you would do it.
And then you'd put in your title like Connect with me
on LinkedIn, something like that.
So, I'm just gonna delete that.
And so, here's my version right here,
and then we'll just take a look at it right here.
So, there you go.
So, you're gonna be able to capture your links
to go right to your profile,
right to your company that you're associated with
if you have your company stored in LinkedIn,
and where you went to school.
And then, of course, a link to your profile.
So, looks fantastic.
I chose a dark color because it is
a big contrast from the rest of my website.
So, I think that'll draw more attention to it
than if I were to use the white.
But, you choose.
Thanks so much for watching the video today.
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go to larrysnow.me and I'll see you in the next video.