What is Going On With LinkedIn Top Voice Influencers?

Follow This To Earn LinkedIn Top Voice Badge Within A Week :)

Mayur Jadhav
ILLUMINATION
4 min readSep 1, 2023

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I managed to earn LinkedIn Community Top Voice badge on my profile in early days of its release.

And I’m excited to share the exact process that I followed to secure the top voice badge within a week, with minimal effort.

With Top Voice badge you become the top 1% of the top 1% on LinkedIn.

Isn’t it the cool thing?

LinkedIn Top Voices

LinkedIn is undergoing many changes, consistently adding, modifying, and removing features.

As part of these changes, LinkedIn Influencer program merged into the Top Voices franchise, making it easier for you to identify and follow valuable and high-quality content from the experts around the world.

A bit confusing, right?

Forget about the past, former names, and everything.

Here is the present, and most likely, the same will stay in the future until LinkedIn makes any further changes, which I don’t anticipate.

Two Types of LinkedIn Top Voices

There is still a lot of confusion, but let me break it down and explain it to you in a simpler way.

Going forward, you’ll see only two badges: one is the Top Voice badge, and the other is the Community Top Voice Badge.

1. Top Voice Badge

Image from LinkedIn (Bill Gates)

The blue colored top voice badge is only distributed to the executives who run large organisations — CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, large startups, or well-known brands— as well as recognizable leaders and industry experts.

This is out-of our scope.

I’ll tell you more about the second badge, that’s on my profile.

2. Community Top Voice Badge

Mayur Jadhav on LinkedIn

You can identify this light golden colored badge highlighted with one of your skills which is a new thing on LinkedIn.

It’s definitely an eye-catching and credibility booster badge.

Here are some examples of Community Top Voice Badges:

— Top Storytelling Voice

— Top Research Skills Voice

— Top Team Leadership Voice

— Top Business Analysis Voice

— Top User Experience (UX) Voice

— Top Product Management Voice

— Top Online Content Creation Voice

Benefits of Being A Top Voice On LinkedIn

Becoming a top voice and displaying the top voice badge on profile can bring you a lots of opportunities that give you benefits for both personal and professional development.

Build an Authority

The community Top Voice badges showcase your list of top skills which you earn by contributing into collaborative articles. This badge can help you build authority in a specific area of expertise. You have to make sure you engage with content and earn relevant badges.

Grow Your Network

This community Top voice thing is still new on LinkedIn. When you send a connection request to someone, the top voice badge increases the connection request acceptance rate.

Also, it helps you to gain more followers and inbound connection requests.

Find Your Dream Job

These community badges are created to contribute, earn, and showcase your top skills. Having a badge on your profile that displays your top skills attracts more recruiters.

There are high chances you’ll be contacted by recruiters for any specific opening where your top skills are required.

Increase Visibility

By becoming a top voice on LinkedIn, you increase your visibility among other professionals within the industry. With this badge more likely you’ll be noticed by peers, managers, recruiters, hiring managers, and potential clients.

Build a Personal Brand

By becoming a top community voice, your profile separates from other professionals. You fall in the top but small group of experts. It will definitely help boost your personal brand.

Improve Your Credibility

To build your credibility, demonstrate honesty and integrity in everything that you do. The Top community voice badge displays your expertise transparently and communicates clearly. It helps you build trust and authority.

Gain More Clients and Customers

You have to stand out in the crowd and among the competitors to attract more clients and customers. Top community voice badge might help boost confidence in people who want to work with you or purchase products or services from you.

Learning and Professional Development

By engaging other top voices, contributing to the collaborative articles on different topics within your industry, following the latest trends and insights, you can continue learning and staying updated with the knowledge and skills.

How To Earn Community Top Voice Badges

Mayur Jadhav on LinkedIn

Lets break the LinkedIn Top Voice feature (without doing anything illegal).

I have written a full descriptive guide on How To: Get LinkedIn Top Voice Badge on your profile within a week or two. I’ve detailed the exact steps which I followed to earn my Top Voice badge.

It’s available FREE for now.

Click here to download it now before I increase the price to $99.

*DISCLAIMER: This is not a LinkedIn’s official guide. The information mentioned here is solely my own opinions and is not in any way, shape, or form, a representation of my current or past employers **

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Mayur Jadhav
ILLUMINATION

BI Developer. Writer. Creative Educator. Building → learnSASCode.com | 43k on LinkedIn