How to blacklist LinkedIn profiles in STACKED

Blacklisting allows you to prevent STACKED from running automated actions on specific LinkedIn profiles.

This can be useful when you want to exclude existing customers, competitors, colleagues, people from a particular company, or anyone else who should never be contacted by your automation.


What happens when a profile is blacklisted?


Once a LinkedIn profile is blacklisted, STACKED will automatically exclude that profile from automation.

A blacklisted profile will:

  • Be skipped during automated profile visits
  • Be prevented from receiving configured automated actions
  • Be ignored by Remote Control commands (via API)

Blacklist an individual profile


To blacklist someone manually, add the tag blacklisted to their LinkedIn profile using STACKED Tools.


STACKED Tools panel showing the blacklisted tag applied to a LinkedIn profile to prevent automated actions on that profile.

The tag must be blacklisted exactly as specified, case-sensitive.


Automated blacklisting using drip campaigns


If you need to blacklist a large group, for example, everyone working for your own company, you can create a dedicated campaign that applies the blacklisted tag as profiles are enrolled.

  1. Create a campaign in Drip Campaigns for this purpose and set its Campaign ID to blacklisted.
  2. Then enable Tag profiles with ID when enrolling. Use only the Visit action.

STACKED Drip Campaign editor showing a blacklisted Campaign ID and the “Tag profiles with ID when enrolling” option enabled to automatically blacklist enrolled LinkedIn profiles.

The Campaign ID is case-sensitive.


  1. Create a LinkedIn People Search and apply filters that match the people you want to avoid, for example, the company name.
  2. Select your blacklisted campaign.
  3. Click Enroll prospects and select the blacklsiting campaign.

As the profiles are enrolled, STACKED applies the blacklisted tag, preventing them from being targeted by automation.


Is Qualify In or Qualify Out the same as blacklisting?


No.

When managing prospects through Funnel Flow, you can use Qualify In or Qualify Out to remove a prospect from the current campaign workflow.

This does not permanently blacklist the LinkedIn profile.

Qualified In or Qualified Out prospects can still be enrolled in other campaigns. Use the blacklisted tag when you want STACKED to exclude the profile from automation more broadly.

Find out more about prospect management options here.