LinkedIn is now popular and has been around for several years. Many people may have two duplicate accounts on LinkedIn with different emails and other contact credentials. The fact may be known to some while some others may get to know about it in the future.
Fortunately, LinkedIn offers you an option to merge LinkedIn accounts, which makes your life easier and hassle-free, and also helps you keep a methodological and clean LinkedIn presence.
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What to do if I have a duplicate LinkedIn account?
Multiple accounts on LinkedIn can confuse others (including your prospects) and also violate the rules of the networking platform. Below are some options that you have when you have multiple accounts on LinkedIn and want to merge them.
Option One – merging Linkedin accounts
If you have multiple accounts on LinkedIn, you can ask the networking platform to merge duplicate Linkedin accounts and close one of your accounts. You can send the message to the LinkedIn team by contacting them via the Help Center. You will have to tell the main email addresses on both of your accounts to prove that these accounts belong to you. You will also have to tell the team the email of the account that you want to keep.
Option Two – merging Linkedin accounts
You can log in to your secondary account if you remember the email on it. LinkedIn provides you the “reset password” option that you can use if you know the email on the other account but are not aware of the password on it. The Help Center of the networking website will send you the link that you can use to create a new password.
Once you can access your secondary account, you can add a new email to it as a secondary email. You can then export all the connections and have a copy of the list. To get the name of all your connections, you have to go to the “contact” menu. Once you have the list, you can go inside the “settings” and shut down your other and secondary accounts. You can use the list to invite the contacts you want to your primary account.
Option Three – merging Linkedin accounts
If your other and secondary account does not have any connections and does not have any value, it can be closed easily. You need to copy the URL of the public profile of the other account. Next, you should go to the contact section of the Help center, provide the URL, and ask the Help center to shut down the account.
How to merge duplicate Linkedin accounts?
When you merge two accounts on LinkedIn, the connections of the second or secondary account are transferred to the main/primary account. However, work experience, profile content, saved articles, and endorsements are not merged. For merging two accounts on LinkedIn, you can follow the step-by-step process given below.
- First, log in to your primary account (the account that you wish to keep).
- Click on the “Me” icon. It can be found on the top section of the website on the right-hand side.
- Select “setting and privacy” in the drop-down menu that appears.
- Select account.
- Select the option “account management” that appears in the menu.
- Click on the option “merging LinkedIn accounts”.
- Provide the email address of your duplicate or secondary account and its password.
- Click on the option “submit”. The website will ask you to confirm that you are closing the appropriate account.
- Click “Continue”.
- Enter the password of your primary account that you wish to keep.
- Once everything is confirmed, you can click “submit” and the accounts will be merged.
- Confirmation mail of the merger will come to the email of the user. It would be the email on the primary account.
What happens when you merge two LinkedIn accounts?
It is best to have a single account on LinkedIn. It becomes easy for you to maintain and manage your professional identity when you run a single account. This way you do not have to concentrate or focus on multiple accounts and manage them. It is also easier for your connections, friends, acquaintances, and business partners.
If there are no connections on your secondary LinkedIn account, you can simply close the other/extra account. If there are up to 10 connections on your secondary account you may have to invite them from your primary account once you close your secondary account. The list of the existing connections can be easily obtained on your secondary account before you close it down.
However, if you have more than 10 connections, you should contact the customer support of LinkedIn. The customer care of the networking website will transfer all the connections from the secondary account to the primary account.
However, the recommendations or the job positions and professional histories are not transferred from one account to another.
Can’t merge LinkedIn Accounts
You may fail to merge your two different LinkedIn accounts when you do not remember the email of the secondary account. In such cases, you may use any potential email that you think may be connected to your LinkedIn account.
The e-mail may relate to your previous or current work organization. It may also be an email related to your school or some personal email address that you no longer use. You can also try certain variations of the email addresses (for instance.gmail.com, Google mail.com, etc.).
There are cases when the users do remember the email addresses but do not have access to it anymore. In such cases, the users may undergo an “identity verification process” on LinkedIn, know their previous email and then use it for closing the account on LinkedIn.
Other information related to merging duplicate LinkedIn accounts
Merging duplicate LinkedIn accounts is important as it reduces ambiguity and reduces your efforts as well. It helps you maintain a clear professional identity on LinkedIn and ensures that people are not confused with your many accounts. LinkedIn also encourages its members to have a single account and also has certain policies regarding it.
Summary – Merging duplicate accounts
Merging multiple LinkedIn accounts is an easy process, provided you know how to undertake it. The guide above will help you manage your different accounts and will ensure that you keep all your connections intact on your primary accounts.
