How to Add a Website Link to LinkedIn Profile? [in 2023]

If you have a website, you should add the website to your LinkedIn profile to give your website more visibility.

In this LinkedIn profile tutorial, we will teach you how to add a website to LinkedIn profile whether it is your official website or not.

If you prefer to watch a video tutorial on how to add a website link to LinkedIn profile, check out this one:

How to Add a Website Link to LinkedIn Profile?

To add a website link to LinkedIn:

1. Open LinkedIn.com and sign in.
2. Click on the ‘Me’ tab.
3. Select ‘View Profile’.
4. Click on the ‘Contact Info’ button
5. Click on the pencil icon to edit this.
6. A popup window will appear, click on ‘Add a website’
7. Add the website link to the Website URL field.
8. Select a website category from the list.
9. Click on ‘Save’

That’s it. If you have followed our instructions, your website should be added to your LinkedIn profile.

How many websites can you add to the LinkedIn profile?

You can add as many as three websites to your LinkedIn profile. You must label each website either as your company, blog, or personal website.

Surely, LinkedIn does not want you to add some random websites so people won’t get pushed to make LinkedIn accounts just to promote those websites.

If it is a personal website, you can choose your Facebook or Twitter account. Surely, the website of the company you are working for can represent your company website.

You can even choose to put a link to your portfolio if you have one and if you don’t then now is the time to make one as it is your best chance to let everyone know what you bring to the table.

How to Add a Custom name to Your website on the LinkedIn profile?

While you are selecting a website category, you can choose the ‘other’ option. This would prompt another field for you to fill up. Now, you can fill up the field by describing the website that you added there.

Can’t Add a Website to LinkedIn Profile

If you can’t add a website to your LinkedIn profile, here are the most common issues.

You want to add a website link that has already been added to the LinkedIn profile. You can only add a website only once to the LinkedIn profile.

Secondly, you can only add three websites to your LinkedIn profile. So if you want to add 4 or more website URLs, unfortunately, LinkedIn won’t allow you to do so.

So if you have multiple websites, select the top 3 most important that you want to promote for your LinkedIn connections.

Other links you can add to your LinkedIn profile

Besides adding websites to your LinkedIn profile, you can also add the following information to the Contact Info section of your LinkedIn profile:

• email address
• phone number
• address
• instant messaging options.

So even if you don’t have a website, you can make sure that people who want to contact you via LinkedIn will be able to do so.

So as a best practices, besides adding your websites to the LinkedIn profile, also add these contact information options to your LinkedIn profile as well.