How To Customize Your LinkedIn URL in 6 Easy Steps AKA How To Boost Your LinkedIn SEO AKA Lifehacks By Miki Szeles
I am an enthusiastic developer since my childhood. I have started with Plus 4 and C 16 machines programming in Basic. I still remember when we were jumping on the bed with my brother, and accidentally saw the Commodore 64 computer on the top of the wardrobe, which was planned to be a Christmas gift for us. I don't have to tell you that we couldn't wait till then. :) I will never forget this memory. Of course in the beginning we only played on the computer, but later I became interested in how can I make my own programs. I have to tell when I first faced the binary number system I did not understand it, but I was still able to draw some sprites on the screen. :)
I continued learning software development during grammar school. I got my Masters degree at the Budapest University of Economics and Technology where I learnt many languages and also learnt a lot about general software development theory and practice.
I have started my professional career as a C++/C# developer, but I switched to Java after a few years. I've visited many meetups and Code Retreats during this time and I've learnt and introduced Agile methodologies in our company. During the years I lead the development team in close cooperation with the product management and testing department.
In 2020 I felt I need something new and I turned towards test automation both API and UI. I did not regret my decision. Since then I tried many frameworks like RestArrured, Selenium, Protractor, Appium, Selenide and Karate.
At the moment I am working as a Senior Software Developer in Test using Selenium and Selenide for UI testing and Karate for API testing.
I believe knowledge sharing is very important, so apart from helping my colleagues work I started my technical blog recently: https://mszeles.com Sharing your knowledge provides many ways for your own development. Whenever I write an article many questions come into my mind which might be interesting for the readers, so I try to answer all of them in my posts. Doing this I learn a lot about the subject. In additionally sharing your knowledge gives a good opportunity for feedback based on which you can further improve.
Have you ever noticed that ugly hexadecimal number at the end of your LinkedIn URL?
I have good news for you:
You can get rid of it completely.
And you can even write anything there. For example, you can write your job title in it, which might aid your SEO as search engines consider the URL a significant source of information.
So how can you do that?
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Click the Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn profile!
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Click the View Profile button!
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Click Edit public profile & URL link!
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Click on the pencil icon right after your URL!
- Change your URL to whatever you like! I advise you to consider SEO, so to boost your search results, you should put all your keywords into it.
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Click the Save button to save your new unique URL.
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- Minnie: Where are you?
- Miki: I am here, I just bought popcorn, but I guess I only missed the ads.
- Minnie: Miki, the story is over.
- Miki: Whatttt?
- Minnie: That's it. We can go home.
- Miki: You are trying to trick me, Minnie.
- Minnie: I am not tricking you. Why do you think that?
- Miki: As Miki, Szeles wouldn't write any story which is shorter than at least half an hour.
- Minnie: Fair enough.
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- Miki: Sure.
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- Nikolai: No way, Miki. Self-promo again? Really?
- Mictor: Such professionalism.
