When you connect a sender profile to GetSales for the first time (or open a new session for it), LinkedIn treats it as a fresh login from a new environment. Jumping straight into outreach from a freshly opened session is the fastest way to trigger restrictions. The goal of warming up is to build a normal, human-looking activity history before any automated outreach begins.
This guide covers the recommended approach.
1. Keep activity manual for the first 3–4 days
For the first 3–4 days after opening the new session, log in and use LinkedIn manually inside the same browser environment (Cloud browser or GoLogin). Do the kind of things a real person does:
Scroll the feed
View a few profiles
React to posts or write your own
Check notifications
Reply to messages
Avoid running any automation during this window. The point is to let the platform associate normal human behavior with the new session fingerprint and IP before any tooling touches the account. Keep the session consistent: same browser profile, same proxy/IP, same working hours.
2. Enable Smart Limits from the start
Turn on Smart Limits on the sender profile before you begin any automated activity. With Smart Limits enabled, daily action limits adjust automatically based on the account's health signals, so the profile ramps up gradually instead of hitting a fixed ceiling on day one.
This matters most for a new or recently reopened session, where a conservative starting volume protects the account while it establishes trust. Leave Smart Limits on through the entire warm-up period and into early outreach.
3. Check the Health Score and fix what's weak
Monitor the sender profile's Health Score during warm-up and watch which metrics are dragging it down. Common areas to improve:
Acceptance rate — low acceptance signals poor targeting or messaging; pause and refine before scaling.
Response / reply rate — indicates whether your conversations look genuine.
Pending request backlog — a large backlog of unanswered requests hurts standing. Clear stale pending requests with the withdraw-pending-request action.
Activity consistency — large gaps or sudden spikes both look unnatural. Aim for steady daily activity within the profile's schedule.
Use the dashboard sender-performance and conversion-funnel widgets to track these over time, and only start scaling outreach once the score is stable and healthy.
4. Reconnecting a profile that was inactive last month? Warm up through the existing network
If a sender profile sat inactive over the previous month, don't reopen it and immediately start sending requests — that contrast in behaviour is a red flag. Instead, engage with the network the profile already has.
Recommended setup:
Import the profile's existing network as contacts.
Build a light engagement flow using only soft, non-outreach actions — for example a visit-profile action followed by a like-latest-post action. These engage with contacts the profile is already connected to.
Avoid connection-request and message actions in this warm-up flow entirely.
This generates safe, natural activity among people the account already knows, which rebuilds trust and warms the profile up. Once activity has been steady for several days and the Health Score looks good, the profile is safer to add to your active outreach flows.
Pro step (optional): build a real ad-cookie history
A brand-new browser session has no ad or tracking cookies at all, which makes it look unusually "clean" — a small but real fingerprinting signal. You can close that gap naturally during the manual warm-up window.
While you're using the session manually, sign in to a few everyday B2B sites right inside the GetSales Cloud browser — for example canva.com or notion.so — and accept / allow all cookies.
Why this helps: many B2B SaaS sites run the LinkedIn Insight Tag. When you accept cookies on those pages, LinkedIn's own cookies are set in the same browser profile. That gives your session the normal, human-looking cookie history a real person's browser builds up from everyday use.
Other sites that commonly carry the tag: HubSpot, Zoom, Slack, Asana, monday.com, Zendesk, Calendly, Grammarly, Figma, and Adobe. The Insight Tag sits on 100,000+ mostly B2B domains, so most SaaS marketing or login pages you already use will work.
A few more strategies worth adding
Ramp volume gradually — don't jump. Even after warm-up, start outreach at a low daily volume and increase it over one to two weeks rather than going to full limits immediately. Smart Limits helps, but a deliberate ramp on your side reinforces it.
Set realistic working hours. Configure the profile's schedule to match a believable workday in its timezone (and use the lead-timezone option appropriately for global outreach). Activity in the middle of the local night looks automated.
Separate the warm-up flow from the outreach flow. Keep the engagement-only warm-up as its own flow so you can run it on new or reactivated profiles without mixing it into live campaigns. You can leave a lighter version running in the background even during active outreach to maintain natural activity.
Diversify the action mix. Profile visits, post likes, and varied messages (especially within the same session) read as more human than a single repeated action type.
Set notification emails on the profile. Add notification recipients so you're alerted to account issues early and can pause before a problem escalates.
Use the hold function instead of pushing through warnings. If the platform shows any friction during warm-up, pause the profile (or set a hold-until time) and let it rest rather than continuing and risking a restriction.
The short version: new or reopened sessions need a few days of manual, human activity before any automation; turn Smart Limits on from the start; watch the Health Score and fix what's weak; and for dormant profiles, warm up by engaging the existing network with visit/like actions — never cold requests — before adding the profile to outreach.
Reach out to our support team if you have any questions about a specific profile.