HELP! My LinkedIn Account Got Restricted! - LinkedIn Account Restrictions (Step-by-Step Guide!)

So what do you do if your account got restricted on LinkedIn? LinkedIn is the world's largest professional social network, and they are notorious for restricting people's accounts. Now there's different levels of restrictions. Maybe the restriction is that they completely block you out of LinkedIn, or maybe they restrict your account where you try to send someone a message and they don't get it. I've had different types of restrictions on my account, and I've got past all of them. And in this video, I'm going to show you exactly how to be able to get past all those restrictions. But before you do that, I want you to back up your LinkedIn account. The way that you back up your LinkedIn account is very simple. You go to linkedin.com, you go to the settings, you go to data privacy, and then you— and I'll show you. I have a quick way to do it. So I have a tool called Evy AI. You log in. On the left side, you're going to see it says Learning Hub. Then you click on Quick Links. In the Quick Links, it says download your LinkedIn connections. That's the place where you have to go to. Otherwise, you have to kind of sift through your profile. In the, in the preferences. And so you click on download your larger data archive, which includes your connections, verifications, and contacts. So do this right away. That's the first thing that you want to do is back up your full connections. You want to back up your whole thing. Once you back up your full connections, then the next thing that you want to do is you want to make sure that you go to Twitter. You go to Twitter. You might be like, why am I going to Twitter? You go to X and you find the LinkedIn help. So it's x.com/linkedinhelp and make sure it's the verified LinkedIn help with the little gold icon over there. And what you do is you tweet at them and you tell them, you do @LinkedInHelp and you say, hey, this is my situation, this is what's going on. And then they'll DM you, follow them so that they can follow you back and DM you. And then you— they'll DM you a specific link. Typically where they'll send you is to this page over here that says account restrictions. There are different reasons why LinkedIn will restrict you. Maybe you posted something. I posted something. with an AI video of the president having a relationship with the vice president. And I just thought that was interesting, so I posted it and someone saw it and complained about me and they knocked off my account. That was just like, whoa. And I don't know why they restricted my account, but they restricted my account for that reason. I said, okay, I'm not gonna post anything like that. I just, I thought it was interesting, but people said it was rude and disgusting and it was terrible. I was like, okay. If you don't have a proper profile photo, if you have emojis in your name, or if you write— if you have a company name as your name, or if you do other things that are related to these words over here, identity violations. Let's say you have a fake account or you have the wrong name on your account or something, or you're using any automated tools, whether you have knowledge of it or don't have knowledge of it, or if you You have too many people logged into your account from many countries. All those things will, might give you a restriction to your account. And if you get a restriction, they'll send you over here to the bottom where it says Contact Us. You see this is Contact Us over here. Click on Contact Us. And that'll take you to the Contact Us section of LinkedIn, which is linkedin.com/help/linkedin/resolve. And then you create a support ticket and usually within 24 hours they help you out with your support ticket if you're logged into LinkedIn. If you can't even log in, I would suggest going the Twitter route. And that will help you be able to get there faster. They'll give you special links. So LinkedIn has something called professional community policies, and you want to make sure that you read this. This is about being safe, being trustworthy, being professional. They want to make sure that you don't violate their community policies, that you're not being abusive. So this is what being safe means. Don't post harassing content. Don't threaten, incite, or promote violence. Don't share material depicting exploitation of children. Don't promote or sell or attempt to purchase illegal or dangerous goods. Don't share content promoting dangerous organizations or individuals. Um, and be trustworthy. Don't create fake accounts. Don't scam, defraud people. Be professional. Don't be hateful. Don't engage in innuendos. Don't share harmful or shocking material. So I shared something shocking, and people got shocked, and they were like, okay, we're shocked. But it wasn't anything related to this stuff. It was just literally an AI thing. Anyway, don't spam members on the platform. So this is a big one here too. If you're messaging people and they don't like it and they complain about it, you can get your account banned just for that reason, just for people complaining. And even if you didn't bother anybody, but somebody complained about you, you can get your account banned just because somebody complained about you. It's crazy. So LinkedIn does have professional policies. Make sure that you understand what the professional company policies are. And also look at their agreement. You can put their agreement in ChatGPT and figure out what their agreement is. They say you're not allowed to share your access to your LinkedIn with anybody or with any devices. LinkedIn reserves the right to limit your use of the services. Like they can limit your use of the services for any reason. But, you know, just you go through this and you'll be able to see they can terminate you for whatever, however they want. They could do whatever they want. So— You got to be careful and make sure you back up your account. Here are the don'ts. 8.2 is a big one for them. You know, there's 8.1 and then there's 8.2. So if you look through these don'ts, there is 19 different bullet points here. You're not going to create a false identity. You're not going to develop or support the use of software, device, scripts, robots, means or processes to scrape or copy services from profile data. They don't want you to be scraping on LinkedIn. They don't want you to bypass security things. They don't want you to copy or display, distribute information pertaining to the services. They don't want you to disclose information. They don't want you to violate intellectual property rights, violate intellectual property rights of LinkedIn without limitation. They don't want you to post anything that contains software viruses, worms, or any harmful code. They don't want you to reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher, or attempt to derive source code from the services or any related technology that is not open source. Employers state you're affiliated or endorsed with LinkedIn. Like somebody did something called the LinkedIn Global Summit and people got together, 1,000 people got together and LinkedIn closed their accounts down because they said LinkedIn Global Summit, you're not allowed to do that. We actually had a company name called Social Sell-In and we were teaching LinkedIn and LinkedIn sent us a cease and desist letter and they said, you have to change your name of your company. You can't have the word in, in your company. And we went to a lawyer and they said, you'll win if you fight them, but it's going to cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight them. So we literally changed the name of our company from Social Selling back in 2019 to Evergreen. It's that crazy. But yeah, so that's— these are the terms. So definitely go through these terms and take a look at them. Make sure you're complying with them and make sure to back up your account. That's the main thing. You back up your account, you have a backup of your account. Even if you got restricted, you should be able to just go in here and back up your account. And then go on Twitter and tweet at them, and hopefully that'll resolve your account. You might have to send them your ID, so if you do have a fake account, it's gonna be a problem. You're probably not gonna be able to get access to it. But if it's a real account and you have your first and last name, even if it doesn't match the ID exactly, like my name is not— on my ID it doesn't say Joe, but my name is Joe. So, um, yeah, and if you need additional support, you could always email my team. We're always happy to send you additional resources. We are very, very happy to support people. So thanks for watching this. Boom. Boom.