Outbound link to company's LinkedIn profile from website

[MeganR]

Does anyone know how to create an outbound link from a company's website to its LinkedIn profile without getting a 999 Request Denied error?

When a user clicks on a link to the company's profile URL, they're asked to login or sign up for LinkedIn and access is denied.

Is there a workaround, a way to generate a URL that will display company's LinkedIn profile without having to be logged into LinkedIn?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Just found this error going through client's screaming frog report.

 

[Stefan Somborac]

Hi @MeganR,

Test your LinkedIn URL without being logged in. (E.g. Open an incognito window and just paste the URL into the address bar.) I think you'll find that the link is OK.

LinkedIn just throws back this 999 error when it detects a crawler; it's not because the link doesn't work.

(FWIW, the 999 isn't even a standard status code. See Wikipedia.)

 

[MeganR]

Stefan, you are correct! Thank you!