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About this tool
Builds site:, filetype: and quoted-phrase searches from your own name and profile URL to show how discoverable your LinkedIn presence is.
This builder assembles twelve search-engine queries from your own name, LinkedIn vanity URL, employer, city and work email domain, using documented operators — site:, filetype:, quoted phrases, OR and the minus exclusion — to show what a stranger can read about your professional life without logging in. It covers your indexed public profile, country-subdomain copies, public posts and articles, sites that republish your profile URL, scraped aggregator entries and PDFs carrying your contact details. It builds strings for you to run yourself; it never searches, scrapes or stores anything.
Open LinkedIn Self Exposure Query Builder on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Add your input to the workspace.
Adjust the options until the result looks right.
Copy or download the output and put it to work.
Every query uses documented search syntax and your validated profile URL, so results are precise rather than noisy.
Country subdomains, republished links and scraped aggregator entries are searched separately from your own profile.
The page assembles strings locally; nothing is fetched, logged or sent.
Search site:linkedin.com/in followed by your name in quotes, then repeat with site:*.linkedin.com/in to catch country subdomains such as uk.linkedin.com. That returns the public version of your profile, which is what people see before signing in and what search engines have cached.
It is the part after /in/ in your profile address, and LinkedIn's rule is 3 to 100 characters using only letters, numbers and hyphens. Searching for that exact string in quotes, with -site:linkedin.com, reveals every other site that has embedded a link to your profile.
Partly. Settings and Privacy > Visibility > Edit your public profile lets you limit which sections search engines see, or hide the public profile entirely, and a separate setting controls whether people can find you by email address or phone number. Changes take time to appear because search engines re-crawl on their own schedule and may keep a cached copy meanwhile.
These queries only surface pages that are already public and indexed, but this tool is written for auditing your own footprint. Compiling a profile of another person, particularly for contact, monitoring or targeting, raises data protection and harassment questions in many jurisdictions — take proper advice before doing it in a professional context.