Security & Hygiene — How to Automate Without Getting Banned

Why LinkedIn Bans Accounts

LinkedIn monitors your activity for "Spam Signals." If you trigger these, you get a temporary restriction. If you keep doing it, you get a permanent ban.

The Top 3 Triggers:

1. Velocity Spikes: Going from 0 activity to sending 100 connection requests in one day.
2. Extension Conflict: Having 5 different Chrome extensions (Scrapers, Auto-likers, Email finders) all pinging LinkedIn’s API simultaneously.
3. Low Acceptance Rates: Sending connection requests that get ignored or marked as "I don't know this person."

The "Safe Mode" Protocol

To keep your account healthy, stick to these daily/weekly limits. (Note: These limits vary based on your account age and Sales Navigator status, but these are safe baselines).

1. Connection Requests

• The Limit: Max 20-25 per day (approx. 100 per week).
• The Strategy: LinkedIn now strictly enforces a weekly limit. Quality > Quantity. Always add a note (if relevant), but data shows blank requests sometimes perform better if the profile is optimized (which we did in Lesson 1.3).

2. Direct Messages (DMs)

• The Limit: Max 100-150 messages per day.
• The Danger: Copy-pasting the exact same text 50 times in 10 minutes. LinkedIn’s spam filters read your messages.
• The Fix: Personalize. Vary your openers.

3. Profile Views

• The Limit: Max 80-100 views per day (if using automation).
• The Logic: Viewing a profile notifies the user. It’s a soft "nudge." But viewing 1,000 profiles a day is obviously a bot.

The CreatorHub Advantage: The "Unified OS" Safety

One of the biggest risks to account security is "Extension Clutter."

If you have:

• Tool A for writing...
• Tool B for scraping...
• Tool C for scheduling...

They create a "noisy" digital footprint that flags LinkedIn's security systems.

Why CreatorHub is Safer:

CreatorHub replaces that clutter with One Unified Operating System.

• Single Point of Contact: It manages the workflow seamlessly.
• Human Simulation: The Campaign Agent and Kanban Planner encourage a workflow that mimics natural human behavior—drafting, reviewing, and scheduling at natural intervals.

How to "Warm Up" Your Account

If you haven't been active on LinkedIn, do not start running full speed tomorrow. You need to "warm up" the account.

• Week 1: Manual engagement only. 5 comments/day. 0 connection requests.
• Week 2: 5 connection requests/day. 1 Post.
• Week 3: 10 connection requests/day. 2 Posts. Start DMs.
• Week 4: Full Capacity.

🏁 Module 1 Complete!

Congratulations. You have laid the foundation.

• ✅ Mindset shifted to Authority.
• ✅ Niche and ICP defined.
• ✅ Profile optimized into a Landing Page.
• ✅ Security protocols installed.

Next Up: We stop being invisible. In Module 2, we dive into Strategy & The Algorithm. We will build the Content Engine that feeds the machine exactly what it wants.