How LinkedIn Invite Restrictions Are Affecting Certain Users: Solutions to Work Around It

In this blog, we will be sharing some practical guidelines to get beyond these LinkedIn restrictions.

Recently, LinkedIn has introduced its new “Weekly Invitation Limits” to limit the actions of users, especially those who use LinkedIn automation tools. According to LinkedIn, the new limits will reduce the spam activities on this platform.

Sounds good, but what does it mean for those users who run outreach campaigns?

Though these restrictions are not implemented on all the accounts, there are many LinkedIn accounts that have been limited to 100 requests per week. Many LinkedIn users have been getting warnings and put out in LinkedIn jail if they don’t follow the rules.

But what are these limitations and why LinkedIn is putting these restrictions on users?

A Quick Overview of the New LinkedIn Limitations

LinkedIn has introduced new limits of sending only 100 invites per day. When a user has reached the limits, a notification will pop up:

This news has affected a lot of LinkedIn users, especially B2B marketers who run outreach campaigns on LinkedIn.

At the start, there was an impression that these new limits are for those who use LinkedIn automation tools. But that’s not the case. These restrictions are affecting all the accounts, however, accounts with a few numbers of connections are being targeted quickly.

Users have to wait until the next week when the invitation limit will reset and users will be able to do something.

While many users are complaining about why their accounts are being targeted, there’s no specific reason behind it. Most likely LinkedIn is just testing these limits on its users until it implements them on all the accounts. However, it has also conveyed a message to its users that these limitations have been placed to protect the members from spamming.

LinkedIn has always been cracking down against spammers. It deleted millions of accounts in 2014 to keep the platform free of spammers.

Are these limitations good or bad?

At LinkedCamp, we feel like “LinkedIn’s New Weekly Invitation Limits” has both good and bad effects.

After monitoring the whole situation, we have realized that LinkedIn has taken this action to make the users understand each other well and be more personalized instead of sending them to connect requests blindly.

If you read the whole message, you’ll notice that LinkedIn wants its users to build relationships after knowing each other well. The message reads as:

“Connections benefit you more when you know them personally, so we have weekly limits to encourage better networks.

“For people, you don’t know, you can follow them to see their posts or send an InMail instead. If you’d still like to send an invitation, please try again next week.”

But don’t worry about LinkedCampers! We are going to share some practical strategies to help you overcome this challenge.

At LinkedCamp, we prefer quality over quantity so we will share some ways that will forge more meaningful connections.

1. Use Emails to Send Invitations

If you have the personal emails of the people you want to connect with, you can simply use those email addresses to send invites by email. This way, you can expand your network while the number of your connection requests will be saved.

There are some LinkedIn automation tools that can retrieve email addresses for you. You can also use them to extract a list of email addresses.

2. Improving your Content Marketing Strategy

At LinkedCamp, we have always been preaching the importance of personalization. These LinkedIn automation tools have special features that enable users to scrape data from LinkedIn profiles and then use this data to understand their needs and interests. Users can also use this data to craft personalized messages.

It has a CSV file feature that helps you send a personalized text (with the right variables to address the person such as name, job title, industry type, location, etc.)