When you click “Edit” on the “Edit My Profile” page next to where you are located, it takes you to a sub-screen with your “Basic Information”.

That page includes “County” and “Zip Code”.

That is how LinkedIn locates you – it fills in the “Area” information from that setting.

Now – the logic used to determine where someone is has flaws in certain situations. Consider a Zip-code that overlaps two towns, or something like that – the reported location can be wrong.

I counseled someone a couple years back and they were very unhappy that the system said they lived in one location instead of the other…

LinkedIn probably gets the data from some service and has just as much an issue if they said the location was your town instead of the one it does.

Perhaps they’ll allow us to locate ourselves with a Latitude/Longitude in the future;-)

steve
(I expect it does something similar for non US sites – and the logic for that is also subject to flaws…)

When I clicked on EDIT in AREA , there is no option for changing the area info. Kindly help me out with this issue.

Thanks in advance.
Rehman.

Ahh – more success – glad you’ve got that resolved. Another reason every other reader has to search for themselves, just to be sure…

steve

I love hearing back – glad that worked well for you.

It is unfortunately one of the biggest issues with LinkedIn (and why I devoted a section to it in my book).

steve

Thanks for your reply. I was having the same problem as Carolyn and deleting the account at the other e-mail resolved it. Turned out I had signed up a few years ago with LinkedIn and had forgotten about it.

I just tried adding an email address that is already in mine, and I see the error message that you’re talking about. The difference is that I see that address in my list…

So – it seems most likely to me that the system is properly reporting an error, but is misidentifying the error.

It is clear – the account that you are logged into does not have that email address attached to it.

But it is also likely that some other account does.

So – search for yourself, and see if you can find a second account that might have been setup with that email. If needed, reset the password by trying to login with that email and having LinkedIn reset that password – and mailing it to that email address.

Then remove that account.

After it’s cleared up, you should be able to add the email to your main account.

I’m not sure what might be going on if you don’t have a duplicate account.

steve

The problem is that address does not show up in the list of addresses. I’ve tried to contact LinkedIn regarding this, but it’s been over 10 days and no response.

Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.