3 Safe Ways To Bypass LinkedIn Weekly Invitation Limit in 2025

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 the risks of sending too many requests:

1. What Is The LinkedIn Weekly Invitation Limit?
2. How To Bypass the LinkedIn Weekly Connection Limit?
3. How To Send More Connection Requests on LinkedIn?
4. What are the risks of going above LinkedIn connection request limits?

Let’s see how to bypass this LinkedIn limits and never get this message again.

What Is The LinkedIn Weekly Invitation Limit?

The LinkedIn weekly invitation limit is currently between 100 and 200 connection requests per week.

LinkedIn does not disclose the exact number of invites allowed, as it depends on factors like your account type, network size, and past activity.

Previously, the limit was set at 700 invites per week, but it was reduced to combat spam and maintain platform quality.

To bypass this limit, you’ll need to follow specific strategies to optimize your connection requests while staying compliant with LinkedIn’s rules.

To understand better LinkedIn weekly limits, I’ll cover the following frequently asked questions:

1. When Does the LinkedIn Weekly Limit Reset?
2. How Many LinkedIn Invites Can I Send Per Week?
3. How to react when you reach the LinkedIn connection limit?
4. 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 on LinkedIn, 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:

1. Stop sending invitations for 3 days.
2. Send a few manual invites after 3 days.
3. 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:

1. Find techniques to bypass the LinkedIn limit.
2. Find a technique to send more invites.
3. Personalize your invites to get the most out of them.

How To Bypass the LinkedIn Weekly Connection Limit?

There are 3 ways to bypass LinkedIn’s weekly invite limitation:

1. Connect with Open Profiles
2. Connect with group members and event attendees
3. 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:

1. Click on Import.
2. Select a CSV file.
3. 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:

1. Go to the “My Network” tab
2. Click on “More options” in the “Add personal contacts” section

1. Select your email provider
2. Select the Gmail you added the contacts into
3. Accept LinkedIn permission request

After that you will land on a screen like this:

Simply tick all the checkboxes to invite the contacts.

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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:

1. Optimize your LinkedIn profile
2. Increase your invitation acceptance rate
3. 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.

What are the risks of going above LinkedIn connection request limits?

While sending more connection requests can be tempting, going beyond LinkedIn’s weekly limits comes with serious risks that can lead to account restrictions or even permanent bans.

1. Getting Temporarily Restricted (“LinkedIn Jail”)

LinkedIn closely monitors invitation activity.

If you exceed the weekly limit too aggressively, LinkedIn may flag your account as spammy and temporarily restrict your ability to send new connection requests.

Signs you’re in LinkedIn Jail:

• Seeing a “You’ve reached the weekly invitation limit” message more frequently.
• Receiving a warning about excessive invitations.
• LinkedIn asking for additional verification (email, phone number, CAPTCHA, or ID check).

If this happens, stop sending invites for 3–7 days and withdraw old pending requests.

2. Getting a Permanent Restriction

If you continue sending excessive requests after a temporary block, you risk permanent account restrictions. This means:

• A complete block on sending invitations for an extended period.
• Possible account suspension if LinkedIn considers your activity a violation of their policies.

3. How to Stay Safe and Avoid LinkedIn Jail

• Limit daily invitations (20–25 per day is a safe zone).
• Don’t use LinkedIn automation excessively (avoid mass connection requests with tools).
• Maintain a high connection acceptance rate (withdraw unaccepted invitations).

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:

1. Open Profiles
2. Group members and event attendees
3. Email contact synchronization

However, the real fight is to be able to send more connection requests and get them accepted.

FAQ

Does LinkedIn have a limit on connection requests?

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 maximum number of connections you can have on LinkedIn?

As a LinkedIn member, you can have up to 30,000 first-degree connections in your network.

Beyond this limit, you won’t be able to send new connection requests—you’ll need to remove existing connections to add new ones.

For the best networking experience, focus on connecting with relevant professionals, engaging with content, and maintaining an active presence.