Data recording: What’s the difference between scanning and visiting?
These options apply to Expert UI users. Regular/Simplified UI users that are running PRO have access to Scan and Visit data will be collected during the Message and Connect actions.
To access "Visit Profiles" or "Scan Profiles", log in to LinkedIn first, find a list of profiles that would be of interest to you, then click on the Dux-Soup icon in your Chrome browser to see the following drop-down:
Visit Profiles
By clicking on the “Visit Profiles” button, Dux-Soup will automatically run through LinkedIn profiles and open up LinkedIn profiles one at a time. This is exactly the same process as if you would manually click on a person’s LinkedIn profile and view it. If you choose to visit profiles, the profile owner will also get notified that you have visited their profile, which can be a good thing if you want to be on their radar before you send them a connection request message.
Scanning Profiles
Scanning profiles means that Dux-Soup will scan through a number of LinkedIn accounts very quickly and extract information from these profiles without actually viewing them. This will not be classed by LinkedIn as visiting a profile. No users will be aware that you have extracted information about their profile.
What Data Do You Get?
The aim of using Dux-Soup is to build your network, grow your connections and generate leads, but an important question to consider is which technique is the most efficient for you: Scanning or Visiting?
Visiting Profiles
Visiting profiles is the most comprehensive way to get lots of data as the following fields are captured:
Regular data
| Profile id | Middle Name | Phone | Notes |
| Visit Time | Last Name | IM | |
| Profile URL | Company Name | ||
| Profile Picture URL | Company Profile | Location | |
| Degree | Company Website | Industry | |
| First Name | Tags |
Extended data
In addition, when visiting, Dux-Soup is able to extract the profile’s employment history, education and skills list.
| Profile id | Middle Name | Company Name | IM | School |
| Visit Time | Last Name | Company Profile | Skills | |
| Profile URL | Connections | Company Website | Location | Position |
| Profile Picture URL | Summary | Personal Website | Industry | |
| Degree | Title | Tags | ||
| First Name | The year started the position | Phone | Notes |
Scanning Profiles
Scanning profiles is much quicker than visiting as the Dux does not have to open each profile one by one, but instead can quickly work through 100s of profiles in minutes. The fields that are downloaded from the scan data are the following:
| Regular LinkedIn | Sales Navigator | Recruiter | |
| Profile id | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Scan Time | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Profile URL | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| First Name | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Middle Name | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Last Name | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Title | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Location | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Notes | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Industry | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Company Name | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Company ID | ✅ | ||
| Sales Navigator Profile URL | ✅ | ||
| Recruiter Profile URL | ✅ |
Why use one or the other?
To be able to select the best option between visit and scan, you need to be clear about what is you are trying you achieve.
(1) Use visiting profiles to warm up your cold leads, and to download detailed profile summaries.
(2) Use scanning profiles to build CSV lists with minimal profile information, for inputting into the Dux-Soup Revisit tool to connect with these profiles