How To See Your Posts and Comments On LinkedIn

Here's how to find your posts on LinkedIn: both for the desktop version, and for the mobile app. Also, I'll show you all the metrics you can extract from LinkedIn and where to find them. Plus you learn what tool you need to get more advanced stats and real actionable insights into your data.

Extracting post data from LinkedIn is time-consuming and sometimes frustrating, so let's see how to do it the EASY way!

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1) See Your Posts: On Desktop 🖥

First, here's how you find your posts using the desktop version of LinkedIn.

How To Find Your Posts?

To find your posts navigate to your LinkedIn profile and scroll down until you see the activity section:
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Once you find it, click that "Show all posts" link at the bottom, and the activity overview screen will open. In the top navigation, make sure "Posts" is checked; or, you can choose a different format if you want to see different activities like comments or videos. Now, all of your posts will appear!

What Data Do You Get?

✅ The impressions (views) of each post, also known as its "reach"

✅ How many reactions, comments, and reposts it had

✅ Ability to drill down into the comments received

✅ Some stats about what demographics of people viewed your post

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Here's what it looks like:

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But LinkedIn doesn't display a lot of the insights into your posts that many creators rely on.

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What Data Do You Miss?

❌ Your Engagement Rate day by day and post by post

❌ How your stats develop over time (with visualizations)

❌ Aggregate lists of people who've engaged with you and how many times

❌ Lists of people you've engaged with (i.e. your outbound)

❌ How many people you're exchanging messages with

❌ The number of comments you're writing over time

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Read on, and we'll share more about how to get these types of deeper insights by going beyond the normal analytics you can get from LinkedIn!

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2) See Your Posts: On The Mobile App 📱

Now it's time to move on to the mobile view of the LinkedIn analytics interface.

How To Find Your Posts?

In the mobile app, you can find the post overview page under your Profile, by clicking your profile icon and then "Show all analytics":

Click on the "See all" button on the activity section, then click "Posts". You will now see all the available stats for your LinkedIn posts:

To get informations about who saw your post you may click on the highlighted "View analytics" text on the bottom of each post:

These insights will help you understand how your post did, at a granular level.

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What Data Do You Get?

✅ Post impressions

✅ Likes and Reactions

✅ All comments

✅ Members reached

✅ Watch time data, total vs average

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LinkedIn gives you the same data as when you browse on the desktop, except it's in a more compact view.

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What Data Do You Miss?

❌ Your Engagement Rate day by day and post by post

❌ How your stats develop over time (with visualizations)

❌ Aggregate lists of people who've engaged with you and how many times

❌ Lists of people you've engaged with (i.e. your outbound)

❌ How many people you're exchanging messages with

❌ The number of comments you're writing over time

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3) Pro Tip: Use a LinkedIn Analytics Tool 📊

More and more people demand better analytics for the optimization of their LinkedIn profiles. Luckily, third-party tools like Aware can help with this!

Use Aware To Analyze Your LinkedIn Content

Aware offers you a deeper level of metrics to help you grow your LinkedIn presence. In other words, we go beyond "what happened" and into "what should you do about it".

This approach gives you an 'unfair advantage' over casual creators, because you'll be able to see exactly what moves the needle while being efficient with your time.

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What Data Do You Get?

With this third party tool, you can visualize all stats that are provided by LinkedIn, plus get a few more that LinkedIn's reports don't include.

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✅ Impressions on your Posts

✅ Post reactions, likes, shares, comments

✅ Number of comments on your posts

✅ Number of comments you're writing on others' posts (i.e. outbound engagement)

✅ Historical data of all metrics listed above, going back to the inception of your account

✅ Your Engagement Rate % across your posts, over time, and by each post individually

✅ How your following breaks down by, city, job, company, etc

✅ A simple view of which posts are your ideal best ones to repurpose, with a button to send successful content right back into your Drafts folder to schedule it again

✅ CSV downloads and exports of all of your data

✅ Team breakdowns and comparisons vs the other users in your account

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Aware is perfect for people that want to brand themselves on LinkedIn and grow their profiles. We also work with a lot of the big LinkedIn agencies and influencers (Luke Shalom, Jasmin Alic, Sam Szuchan, Brianna Doe, Harris Fanaroff, Ben Wise, and many others!).

If you want to check out Aware, get your free trial account here.

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How To Find Liked Posts On LinkedIn?

If you want to see which posts you reacted to over time, you can easily do that. Like in the previous steps, you have to go on your profile then click the activity section. Now you will be on the "All Activity" tab. If you scroll down you will find your comments and likes on posts. Keep in mind that it's difficult to scroll through any but the most recent of your engagements, if you are a frequent engager and creator!

The process is the same for mobile and for desktop:

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See Saved Posts On LinkedIn

Personally, I find this function very handy for capturing inspirational content. The first time I tried to find my saved posts I needed to Google it myself. It is not intuitive at all!

LinkedIn has a small "Saved items" button on the left sidebar in the feed view. Easy to overlook, isn't it?

When you click the button you will find all the posts you saved for later:

On The Desktop Version

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On The Mobile App