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Sender limits and account health

Written by Jaclyn Curtis

Every sender has daily limits on what it will do, and Alsona shows you how healthy the underlying account looks. Getting this right is what stops LinkedIn restricting an account, and it is the least glamorous and most valuable setting in the product.

Open Senders and click a sender to see all of it.

Reading the health panel

Six figures sit across the top of the LinkedIn settings.

What it tells you

Connections

How established the account is. A new account with few connections should send far less than a mature one.

Has Premium

Whether the account has a paid LinkedIn plan. Agents cannot run on a basic account.

Has Sales Navigator

Whether Sales Navigator search URLs will work as a prospect source on this sender.

Language

The account language.

SSI Score

LinkedIn's own Social Selling Index, out of 100. A rough measure of how well regarded the account is on the platform.

Account Health

Alsona's read on how much risk the account is currently carrying.

Treat anything other than low risk as a signal to slow down, not as a number to beat. An account that gets restricted stops earning entirely, and recovery takes weeks.

Auto-scale is the answer for most people

There is an Auto-scale toggle at the top right. Switch it on and Alsona applies its recommended safe limits and raises them as the account warms up.

With Auto-scale off you will see a banner reading "You are not using recommended values", and any limit you have set above the recommendation is shown in red. That red is worth paying attention to. It means you have overridden a safety margin deliberately or by accident.

Turn Auto-scale off only if you have run automation at scale on that specific account recently and know what it will take.

The ten limits

Each shows your current setting, the recommended value, and how much of today's allowance has been used.

Limit

What it governs

Profile Views

How many prospect profiles the agent visits per day. Usually the highest limit, because viewing is the lowest-risk action.

Profile Follow

Following a prospect rather than connecting.

InMails

Paid InMail messages. Capped at 100 and also constrained by your LinkedIn plan's own allowance.

Connection Invites

Connection requests per day. The limit that matters most, and the one LinkedIn watches hardest.

Page Invites

Invitations to follow your company page.

Post Likes

Liking prospects' posts as a warm-up action.

Post Comments

Commenting on prospects' posts.

Messaging 1st-degree Connections

Messages to people you are already connected to.

Pending Invitations Auto-Withdraw Limit

How many unanswered invitations to hold before withdrawing the oldest. Not a daily limit.

Pending Invitation Auto-Withdraw Days

How long an invitation waits before being withdrawn.

A note at the bottom of the screen explains that limits vary by plus or minus 10 percent, so activity does not follow an obviously mechanical pattern.

Why withdrawing invitations matters

LinkedIn looks at the ratio of accepted to pending invitations. An account with hundreds of unanswered requests sitting there looks like it is inviting indiscriminately, which is exactly what LinkedIn restricts accounts for. Auto-withdrawal keeps that ratio healthy without you doing anything, and the default settings are sensible.

Email limits

The Email Settings tab has its own limit for emails sent per 24 hours, and its own list of connected email accounts with their signature status and provider. If your dashboard shows zero email activity, check this number first: an email limit of zero means no email will ever be sent, however many agents are running.

  1. Pause the agents using that sender.

  2. Turn on Auto-scale so limits drop to safe values.

  3. Leave the account alone for 24 to 48 hours.

  4. Resume at the recommended limits and do not override them again.

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