Having strong recommendations is essential, and having more of them builds your credibility online. You need to take advantage of this recommendation blitz by helping your connections write as many high-quality referrals as possible.
Because online recommendations are much shorter than traditional ones and take much less time to write, employers expect you to have more of them. Having more recommendations is a credibility builder, and it tells LinkedIn’s search algorithm that your profile is more important than other profiles, so it puts you on top of a search results page.
But this blitz for a larger number of recommendations doesn’t mean you can ask all your best friends to write one. You still need quality people to write quality recommendations. Be sure you have a nice mix of the following business relationships as recommenders:
Someone you reported to, such as a supervisor or boss
Someone senior but who you didn’t report to
A colleague you worked with in the same group
A colleague parallel in your organization but in a different group
A customer or client who you helped
Someone who worked for you or reported to you
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Source:http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/identify-whom-to-ask-for-an-online-recommendation.html
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