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I A/B Tested 7 LinkedIn Headlines Over 30 Days — Only 2 Got Recruiter Outreach. Here Is the Data

DEV Community·charlie-morrison·about 1 month ago
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I have been writing about LinkedIn invisibility for two months. Last month I tested it on myself. The setup: rotate seven headline patterns across thirty days, one week per pattern (with two patterns getting two weeks because I needed more data). Hold the rest of the profile completely static. Track inbound recruiter messages, profile views, and search appearances via the analytics tab. Use a private alt-account a friend ran to verify search position for the same target keywords across each headline. Two patterns won. Five did not. Here is what shipped and what flopped. The seven headlines I tested I tried to hit the actual variance you see in the wild rather than only the ones I expected to win. Each is rendered exactly as it appeared on the profile.…

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