What it is
The share of connection requests that get accepted. Send a hundred, get forty accepted, your rate is forty percent. It is the first thing people ask about and the number vendors love to quote.
Why we don't quote one
Because we don't have an honest one to give you. Acceptance depends on your profile, your list and your note far more than on the tool, and a number from someone else's account tells you nothing about yours. We also don't report acceptance or reply rates in the daily Telegram report. What the product does show is status: Profile Scraper marks a lead as accepted once they are a first-degree connection, Message Sender skips anyone who hasn't accepted, and the lead list shows where each person stands.
What moves it
- The list. People who plausibly want to know you accept. People who don't, don't. Trimming the list before a run is the single biggest lever.
- Your profile. A clear headline and a real photo do more than any note. People look before they accept.
- The note. Short, specific, no pitch. How long a note should be covers it.
- Shared context. Same city, same industry, mutual connections, a post of theirs you liked last week. Auto Liker exists for that reason.
- Pace. A slow, steady trickle gives people time to notice you between requests.
How to measure yours
Two ways. In the app, run Profile Scraper a week after a batch of requests; it marks accepted leads, and you can count them against the batch. In LinkedIn, My Network then Manage shows your sent invitations still pending, which tells you the other side of the same number.
Measure in batches of a week or more. A day's worth of requests hasn't had time to be answered.
When it's low
Change one thing at a time. First the list: were these really the right people? Then the note: try no note, or a shorter one. Then the pace: drop to Slow and a lower daily limit. A low acceptance rate on a high volume is also the pattern most likely to draw LinkedIn's attention, so a low rate is a reason to slow down, not to send more.
Accepted is not the same as interested
Plenty of people accept every request they get. An acceptance says the door is open, not that anyone is standing in it. The conversation comes from the follow-up, one message with one question a few days later, and from your own replies. If you measure anything beyond acceptance, measure the replies you were glad to get. When to send the follow-up covers the timing.
A simple weekly routine
- Search once, for a hundred people who fit, and trim the list by headline.
- Run Auto Liker for a few days so your name appears under their posts before your request does.
- Run Auto Connect once a day at the pace and limit that suit your account.
- A week later, run Profile Scraper and count the leads marked accepted against the batch.
- Run Message Sender for the accepted ones, once, with one question. Then read your inbox.
Do that for a month and you'll have your own acceptance rate, from your own account, which is the only one that matters.
Don't chase it
A high acceptance rate from the wrong people is worth nothing. The number that matters is conversations with people you wanted to talk to. Twenty requests a day to a good list, one short follow-up, and your own replies in the inbox will beat any rate someone else quotes.