Charles Preston & LinkedIn Site Structure

LinkedIn is a social networking site that caters to the business world that was launched in May of 2003. It’s a great resource for finding potential employees or companies to work for.

LinkedIn profile pages show up higher in search engine results when doing a search for a person’s name such as charles-preston. LinkedIn web pages rank highly for people’s names because it is an authority site.

LinkedIn has accounted for the fact that a common name like Charles Preston could apply to many different people. By using a website structure that other social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook use.

The way LinkedIn takes care of this is by showing you all the different people who have the same name (like Charles Preston) on one page in a long list. Finding the person you are looking for is pretty easy since you can just scan the page and read the details of each person. Details include job positions, education and geographical location.

For example if you did a search on Google for Charles-Preston and found that name on a LinkedIn page you could then contact Charles and or view his LinkedIn profile. Currently there are over 80 million people registered with LinkedIn, and quite a few of them are named Charles Preston.

If you are looking for a way to do business networking, find a job or a potential employee LinkedIn is a great place to start. LinkedIn is also a great reputation management tool. You can also use LinkedIn to re-connect with old friends and colleagues.