Here's the answer, by the numbers: document posts, the PDF carousels of frameworks and teardowns, lead the platform at 6.6 percent engagement, nearly six times a text post. Native vertical video runs 5.6 percent and climbing. Newsletters bypass the feed entirely and land in inboxes. Polls are dead at 0.07 percent, skip them. And putting an external link in the post body costs roughly 60 percent of your reach, so the link goes in the comments, never the post.
Timing is brutal here: only 5 percent of posts that start slow ever recover. So publishing is an event, not a drop. Post when your audience is actually online, stay in the comments for the first hour answering with substance, and let the early reading time compound, because LinkedIn's algorithm ranks on topical authority and dwell time, not hashtags.
But the real shift is what you measure. LinkedIn's job is inquiries, not applause. A post with 400 impressions that lands one client conversation beats a post with 40,000 that lands praise from peers. Twenty right people reading slowly beat twenty thousand passing. That's also why the cheapest authority builder is ten real comments a day on posts your future clients already read.
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