LinkedIn Headline Grader
Your headline is the first thing anyone reads — recruiter, potential client, future collaborator. Paste it here and find out if it's actually doing its job. No headline yet? Generate one from scratch.
A headline is just one signal.
LinkedIQ reads your entire LinkedIn presence — headline, About, experience, and every post — and tells you exactly what's helping your authority and what's quietly working against it.
Get your full brand analysis →Paste or build your headline
Have an existing headline? Paste it to grade it. Starting from scratch? Switch to Generate — fill in your role and what you're optimizing for, and get 5 specific options.
Get scored across 4 dimensions
We score keyword richness, positioning clarity, audience signal, and character efficiency — each with a specific insight into why it scored that way.
Apply the fixes in order
Each result includes ranked fixes and an example of a stronger version. Update your profile and come back in a few weeks to see how it changed.
What makes a LinkedIn headline score high?
Specificity and intent. High-scoring headlines name real domains, technologies, and outcomes — not generic roles. They use characters efficiently, signal who they're for, and contain the keywords your ideal reader would search.
Is this the same as generating new headlines?
Not exactly — grading and generating serve different needs. Grading tells you if what you have is working and precisely what to fix. Generating gives you a starting point if you don't have a headline yet. You can do both here — switch between the tabs.
How is this different from LinkedIn's own profile strength indicator?
LinkedIn's indicator measures profile completeness. This measures positioning quality — whether your headline actually communicates authority and value to the right reader, which is a different problem entirely.
Should I update my headline often?
Update it when your positioning changes — new role, new audience, new goal. Then give it 4–8 weeks before judging. LinkedIn search re-indexes slowly. Frequent small tweaks produce noise, not signal.
Is this tool really free?
Yes. No signup, no credit card. LinkedIQ's paid product is a full brand intelligence platform — this tool is our way of giving something genuinely useful upfront.
What does LinkedIQ's full platform add beyond this?
This is a single point-in-time snapshot of one section. LinkedIQ reads your entire profile and content history, tracks authority signals over time, scores voice consistency across your posts, and tells you what to write next based on what's actually landing with your audience.
Your LinkedIn deserves a strategist,
not a scheduler.
LinkedIQ reads your full LinkedIn presence and tells you exactly what's working, what's hurting your authority, and what to write next.