If you have a free LinkedIn account, you may have received a warning that you were approaching your commercial use limit of 300 searches in a month. Your searching ability may actually come to an abrupt halt if you reached the maximum views by viewing too quickly.
This happens because you have viewed too many profiles on your mobile device or desktop or you looked at the profiles in the “People Also Viewed” section.
You do not get dinged for browsing for jobs on the jobs tab, for looking at your first level connections, or by searching by name in the search box at the top left of your profile.
What LinkedIn hopes you will do is purchase a premium plan on 1) Sales Navigator, 2) Recruiter, or 3) Premier Business. Any of these upgrades will allow increasing the number of searches you are allowed.
Upgrading to the Career and Premium Essentials plans have no bearing on increasing your commercial limits, as both of those are subject to the 300 searches also.
If, for example, you set up your account on the 16th of the month, your month would typically end on the 15th of the next month.
However, for the purposes of the reset for commercial use limit, you must wait until the 1st of the following month to reset your new count of 300.
