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If you’re reading this, you may have encountered the “You’ve reached the weekly invitation limit” message on LinkedIn after sending connection requests.
Bad news:
LinkedIn implemented a new weekly invitation limit.
In this article, I’ll show you 3 hacks to bypass the LinkedIn weekly invitation limit, including:
- What Is The LinkedIn Weekly Invitation Limit?
- How To Bypass the LinkedIn Weekly Connection Limit?
- How To Send More Connection Requests on LinkedIn?
Let’s see how to bypass this LinkedIn limits and never get this message again.
What Is The LinkedIn Weekly Invitation Limit?
LinkedIn is a social media platform for networking and making professional connections with people.
However, you must follow its rules and usage guidelines for a seamless experience.
The weekly invitation limit is one of them.
LinkedIn has limited the connection requests you can send to 100–200 weekly invites.
Previously, that limit was set at 700 invites per week. This limit has been implemented to fight spam on LinkedIn.
To understand better LinkedIn weekly limits, I’ll cover the following frequently asked questions:
- When Does the LinkedIn Weekly Limit Reset?
- How Many LinkedIn Invites Can I Send Per Week?
- How to react when you reach the LinkedIn connection limit?
- What is the Impact of the New LinkedIn Invitation Limit?
1. When Does the LinkedIn Weekly Limit Reset?
Your weekly connection limit on LinkedIn resets precisely 7 days after you send your first invitation.
For example, if you send an invite at 1 p.m. on Monday, your limit will reset at the same time the following Monday.
This means you can keep track of your invitation schedule, plan your connection requests, and maximize your LinkedIn activities.
2. How Many LinkedIn Invites Can I Send Per Week?
You can send 20-25 connection requests daily and around 100 weekly.
If your unanswered invitations exceed 700, LinkedIn may require you to cancel some.
If you have a good Social Selling Index score and your account is old, you can go up to 200 invitations per week.
3. How to react when you reach the LinkedIn connection limit?
If you see the “You’ve reached the weekly invitation limit” message:
- Stop sending invitations for 3 days.
- Send a few manual invites after 3 days.
- Slowly relaunch your automation tools.
Never relaunch your LinkedIn automation software before making a manual test.
4. What is the Impact of the New LinkedIn Invitation Limit?
This new limit has a massive impact on how you should organize your LinkedIn outreach campaigns.
LinkedIn connection requests are a rare resource now.
You can’t waste them.
There are 3 things you can do instead:
- Find techniques to bypass the LinkedIn limit.
- Find a technique to send more invites.
- Personalize your invites to get the most out of them.
1. How To Bypass the LinkedIn Weekly Connection Limit?
There are 3 ways to bypass LinkedIn’s weekly invite limitation:
- Connect with Open Profiles
- Connect with group members and event attendees
- Sync LinkedIn with your email contacts
1. Connect with Open Profiles
One of the most underrated LinkedIn prospecting strategies is bypassing the invitation limit by detecting and messaging open profiles.
You don’t need to be connected to an Open Profile to send a DM.
Open profiles allow you to send an unlimited amount of InMails.
You can message them right away without sending a connection request.
Disclaimer
To have access to InMails, so you need to be Premium LinkedIn Subscription to use this feature (like LinkedIn Sales Navigator, LinkedIn Recruiter, or LinkedIn Premium).
When you want to message an open profile, a different type of chat box opens.
LinkedIn tells you that you can send free InMail messages to that person.
Free InMails appear like regular LinkedIn InMails on your prospect’s LinkedIn inbox.
But how do you easily detect an open profile among your prospects?
You can use Evaboot, the smartest Sales Navigator scraper. Its algorithm double-checks your leads to ensure they match your selected search filters and provieds you with data like emails, LinkedIn URL, open profiles or not, etc.
1st you have to export your leads from LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
Then, in your exported lists you will see if your prospect has an open profile.
Once you have this information, you can split your prospecting campaign into 2 parts:
- campaign on open profile without connection request step
- campaign on closed profile with connection request step
This way, you can save a lot of invites for your outbound campaigns.
The only drawback of InMails compared to cold emails is that you can’t send follow-ups.
This means that you must pay attention to the copywriting and personalization of your InMails, which will make the recipient reply to your message.
2. Connect with group members and event attendees
LinkedIn’s weekly connection limit does not apply to group members and event attendees.
When you are part of a LinkedIn group, you send direct messages to other members without connection.
So you can message 2nd and 3rd-degree connections without sending a connection request.
Once the group admin accepts your request to join, you can see all group members by clicking on See all.
Once you get to the list of LinkedIn group members, you can message them directly by clicking on the message:
It is precisely the same thing for LinkedIn events.
Once you sign up for the events, you can access the list of all event attendees and send direct messages to them.
Click on the Networking Tab.
Then, you will be able to message any event attendees.
The only drawback to this technique is that your messages will land in the Message Request section rather than the main Inbox section.
3. Sync LinkedIn with your email contacts
The first hack to bypass the LinkedIn connection request limit is to transfer your email provider contacts to LinkedIn.
The email invitation through CSV uploads is no longer available on LinkedIn.
This hack was really useful but unfortunately you can’t use it anymore.
However, it’s still possible to sync your Gmail/Yahoo/Outlook/AOL contacts with LinkedIn.
These kinds of invitations are not counted into the weekly limitation.
Here, I will describe the process for Gmail, but it’s pretty much the same thing for any other provider.
Step #1: Find emails
The first step is to get the emails of the people you want to invite on LinkedIn.
Their emails should be the emails of their LinkedIn accounts.
That’s why a big part of them will be personal emails.
Evaboot provides you only with professional emails, but they are not GDPR-compliant for prospecting.
That’s why Evaboot might not be the best fit for this operation.
I would advise you to use Skrapp.io, which also finds personal emails.
Step #2: Create a Gmail Account
The second step is to create a new Gmail account.
You don’t want to mess up your Gmail contacts with all the people you want to connect with on LinkedIn.
So, let’s create another account specifically for that.
Step #3: Add the emails to Google contacts
Once the new account is created, go to your Google Apps and select Contacts.
Once you are in Google Contact, find the button “Import”.
Then:
- Click on Import.
- Select a CSV file.
- Select a tag for the import if you want.
If you found valid email addresses, people will be added to your Google Contact.
Google will also add their names and profile pictures.
Step #4: Go to LinkedIn to add to the contacts
Once your contact are imported:
- Go to the “My Network” tab
- Click on “More options” in the “Add personal contacts” section
- Select your email provider
- Select the Gmail you added the contacts into
- Accept LinkedIn permission request
After that you will land on a screen like this:
Simply tick all the checkboxes to invite the contacts.
Bypassing the invitation limit using this hack is not the only technique you can use to contact more people.
You can also use white-hat techniques to increase the number of LinkedIn invites you can send every week
How To Send More Connection Requests on LinkedIn?
The best way to get more LinkedIn connection requests on LinkedIn is to increase your LinkedIn Social Selling Index Score (SSI).
With a high SSI, you can send up to 200 LinkedIn invitations per week.
In order to increase your LinkedIn SSI, you can:
- Optimize your LinkedIn profile
- Increase your invitation acceptance rate
- Publish great content on LinkedIn
1. Optimize your LinkedIn profile
This all about increasing your acceptance rate when you send new connection requests.
Your LinkedIn profile has a huge impact on whether your target audience will accept your LinkedIn invitation.
That’s why it’s better to put all the chances on your side by optimizing your LinkedIn profile.
2. Increase your invitation acceptance rate
If LinkedIn sees that you have a lot of LinkedIn pending invitations, it means that LinkedIn members did not accept your connection invitations.
You must maintain a high quality LinkedIn network.
LinkedIn may be considered with this data that you are spammy and won’t increase the number of invites you can send.
Pro-tip on this one: it’s better to not add notes without your connection request.
Waalaxy made a study backing up this data. I personally verified that with my own experience.
Here is an example of a LinkedIn campaign I sent without notes in my connection request:
Results: 51% acceptance rate over 1300 invitations sent.
Be careful, especially if using LinkedIn automation tools for your LinkedIn lead generation campaigns.
If you automate bad LinkedIn messages, your acceptance and response rates will decrease, and the LinkedIn algorithm will classify you as a spammer.
Always send personalized messages if you add notes to your requests.
3. Publish great content on LinkedIn
LinkedIn rewards people, bringing weight to the platform.
That’s why publishing great content valuable to your 1st-degree connection is an excellent way to increase your Social Selling Index score.
Another side effect is that if people see you as a LinkedIn influencer, they will be more likely to accept your request, increasing your acceptance rate.
Conclusion
Now you know all about LinkedIn limits. If you want to maintain a high prospecting volume, you must adapt.
You have 3 techniques to bypass connection request new limitations:
- Open Profiles
- Group members and event attendees
- Email contact synchronization
However, the real fight is to be able to send more connection requests and get them accepted.
FAQ
How many invitations do you get on LinkedIn?
LinkedIn gives you 30.000 invites in total.
There is no official daily limit, but LinkedIn has a weekly limit of 100 invites. You can send all 100 in one day, but it may flag your account.
Why can’t I send invitations on LinkedIn?
LinkedIn may have temporarily restricted your account.
This can happen if you send too many invitations in a short period of time or if many of your invitations have been ignored, left pending, or marked as spam.
What is the LinkedIn connection limit?
As a LinkedIn member, you can have up to 30,000 1st-degree connections.
This means that your LinkedIn Network is limited to 30,000 connections. Another limit is that you can send 100-200 weekly connection requests.
For the best experience, connect with people you know and trust. And keep your LinkedIn profile active by following others and staying updated on their posts.
How many LinkedIn connections can you have?
Your LinkedIn Network can have up to 30,000 connections. Make sure to always connect with people you know and trust.
