Why Auto-Withdraw Matters
LinkedIn favors accounts with high acceptance ratios. When you have hundreds of pending invitations sitting in your account for months, it signals poor outreach quality to LinkedIn's algorithm. Auto-withdraw keeps your account clean and professional.
Plus, LinkedIn lets you resend invitations to the same person after 3 weeks. Auto-withdraw creates that opportunity by clearing old requests that weren't accepted.
How It Works
Go to Settings → Withdraw Invitations to configure auto-withdraw. By default, Botdog withdraws pending invitations after 30 days.
Important: This feature withdraws ALL pending invitations - including ones you sent manually outside of Botdog. Keep this in mind if you have manual invitations you want to keep pending (even though there's really no reason to want to do this).
The Data Behind 30 Days
A Botdog analysis of 16,492 LinkedIn invitations shows why 30 days is the sweet spot.
Out of all invitations that are accepted:
21% are accepted within the first hour
63% are accepted within the first day
88% are accepted within the first week
99% are accepted within the first 30 days
After 30 days, you're essentially waiting for nothing. The graph shows acceptance rates flatten completely after this point.
Out of those 16,492 invitations (66% sent without notes, 34% with notes), we achieved a 37% overall conversion rate. The auto-withdraw feature helped maintain account health without sacrificing any meaningful connections.
Best Practices
Keep the default 30-day setting unless you have a specific reason to change it. This timeframe captures 99% of potential acceptances while keeping your account tidy.
Monitor your acceptance rates in the dashboard. If rates drop significantly, review your targeting and messaging before adjusting auto-withdraw timing.
Remember the 3-week rule - you can re-invite someone after their invitation has been withdrawn for 3 weeks (so about 2 months after sending the invite), giving you a fresh opportunity to connect with better messaging. One best practice is to regularly export contacts in campaigns older than 2 months to re-engage them via a new campaign.
Auto-withdraw isn't just about account maintenance - it's about maximizing your LinkedIn potential while staying within best practices. Let the feature run automatically and focus on improving your targeting and messaging instead.