Guide · By AISkillScore · Updated · 5 min read
This page used to list six LinkedIn ranking signals. That list had no primary source, so it is gone. Write the headline and each role as work you can defend, in the language of the jobs you want. A keyword you would not say out loud does not belong. Match one posting before you rewrite the profile.
LinkedIn does not publish a formula on a page we can quote as "six primary signals." The earlier version of this article asserted headline keywords, title match, endorsements, activity, location, and connection degree as if they were a documented ranking. They are cut until LinkedIn's own documentation says them.
Treat any "algorithm hack" the same way. If the sentence needs a number, it needs a source.
Write the headline as the work you do, not a list of adjectives. In each role, use the same standard as the resume: what you produced, with a tool or a constraint, and a result only if you can stand behind the number. Endorsements and a busy feed are not a substitute for that line.
Use the posting's words when they are true of you. A keyword you have not practiced will show up in the first conversation.
The profile is public and general. The resume for one job can be specific. Do not let a tool invent a metric on either. If a line would be stronger with a number, add it yourself when it is true.
Resume Worded's homepage says it gives tailored feedback on a resume and a LinkedIn profile, and that people who reach a score of 90 or above get up to 3 times more interviews (resumeworded.com, fetched 24 September 2026). That outcome line is their claim. We do not adopt it.
Pick one job and run Job Match (5 tokens). Put the lines that already prove a requirement on the profile in plain language. Leave the rest off until you have done the work.
Say the work you can defend, in the words of the roles you want. We do not publish a ranking formula, because we cannot cite one from LinkedIn.
We cut that claim. It was not sourced. Activity does not prove a requirement on a posting.
Job Match on one posting, 5 tokens, then copy only the lines that hold.
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