LinkedIn Skills & Expertise has been around for nearly two years but many LinkedIn experts have wondered how it would be used. It is logical for LinkedIn to want to group skills from professional profiles into a unified structure that can ranked, analyzed and monetized. If LinkedIn can be the tool to easily find people with the highest ranking on certain skills and expertise it could add tremendous value to the LinkedIn profile service.

With the LinkedIn Endorsements feature, it seems logical that the LinkedIn search algorithm will start to rank profiles by a combination of “popularity of skill” and “volume of endorsements”. It is critical for job searchers and small business company pages to load up on the most popular LinkedIn skills & expertise. The objective being to place at the top of LinkedIn and Google search results (LinkedIn profiles have priority ranking in Google). The maximum number of endorsements any LinkedIn skill can receive is 99.

LinkedIn will not provide a list of the most popular LinkedIn skills & expertise. However, being the the top LinkedIn expert we developed an algorithm to determine the 100 top LinkedIn skills. Below are the top 15 LinkedIn Skills. For the list of all 100 contact us – we charge $19.

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