![]() The two asterisks are used to search for any month and year. In addition results with ANY start date will be included. Search B: Will include the results of search A. The results will be Inside Sales Managers that work at TargetCorp from July 2010 to present. The title, company and start month/date are specific. If you can master accurate targeting then you will be on your way to becoming an expert. Once they get some results, they assume success and work with what they have. Most people stop here in their evolution. That means 50% of the results that you will never see. If you have 50% bad results, then you are getting 50% less results. The problem is Google limits the total results to approximately 500 (sometimes a bit more). The above search finds exactly what you told it to find. This is due to the “People also viewed” section of the profile. ![]() In fact, one of the results from our Google search was a Veterinarian specializing in large animals. This search will find people who are currently Inside Sales Managers AND will also find anyone with “Inside Sales Manager” ANYWHERE on their Linkedin page. This search will find any profile where “Inside Sales Manager” is somewhere on the page. Our goal is to find people who are currently Inside Sales Managers. You are targeting the right pages, but the wrong part of the pages. If the size of the total data exceeds what the search engine returns, the search needs to be split into multiple smaller searches. ![]() Law of Permutation: Search engines return limited results.You need to understand and access all possible results. You want to develop a search query that brings back accurate results. Let’s get started and define the three core concepts (it’s real easy stuff). If you understand these concepts, along with the basics of search string design, you can get ALL the data you want from LinkedIn. There are three core concepts to understand when trying to retrieve data from LinkedIn or anywhere on the Internet. Knowing how to think about search will outlast any example I give you. While I will give some search string examples, first, I’m going to teach you how to think about search. There are plenty of forums that go into details, giving specific examples of how to use search strings on Google to find almost anything. Looking to find data on Linkedin, but don’t have a LinkedIn account? Welcome to the five minute starter course to getting free data… using Google. A full access account on Linkedin is expensive. ![]()
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