# Import profiles and keywords from a CSV or a list URL: https://useembers.com/help/signals/import-profiles-and-keywords/ Category: Signals and agents Plan: Solo and above Updated: 2026-10-25 Last verified: 2026-10-25 > Bring the profiles and keywords you tracked in another tool, including a Trigify export. Upload a CSV or paste a list, choose what to add, and import. Import adds many watched profiles and tracked keywords at once, from a CSV or a list you paste. It reads the file, shows you what it found, and adds only what you keep. It was built for people moving from Trigify, which closed on 22 October 2026, and works with any export. > **Warning: Solo and above** > > Import adds watched profiles and keywords, so it needs Solo or above. The free trial runs on Solo. On Free, the Import tab reads "Import is on Solo and above." with **See plans**. ## Import a list ### Open the Import tab Go to **Watchlist** (`/watchlist`), choose **Add monitor**, then **Import** (the panel is titled **Import a list**). During setup, the **Monitors** step has the same import under the form: choose **Import a CSV or a list** after "Moving from Trigify or another tool?". ### Upload a CSV or paste a list Choose **Choose a CSV file**, or type or paste under **Or paste a list**: one LinkedIn profile, company page or keyword per line, or several on a line separated by commas. Then choose **Review import**. A spreadsheet file asks you to save it as a CSV first. ### Choose what to add Embers says what it found, for example "Found 12 profiles and 3 keywords in 812 rows.", and lists **Profiles to watch** and **Keywords to track**. Each profile has a checkbox, its LinkedIn path, how many rows it appears on, and a role select, the same roles as [adding a profile by hand](/help/signals/watchlist/). Beside each list, "2 of 3 slots" counts what you checked against your plan's room, and a checkbox past the room stays off. ### Import Choose **Import**, which names what it adds ("Import 2 profiles and 2 keywords"). Embers adds them in one go, then shows "Added 2 profiles and 2 keywords." and a **Not added** list with the reason for anything it refused. **Import another list** starts over; **Done** closes the panel. ## What Embers reads in a file Embers finds LinkedIn profile, company and school links anywhere in a cell, with or without `https://`, and reads each column's header to decide what it holds: - **Keywords** come from a column whose header says keyword, search term, query or boolean. A cell with several keywords split by commas or semicolons becomes several. A column named for exclusions or negative keywords is ignored, so an exclusion never becomes a keyword. - **A role** comes from a column named role, type, category or similar: Competitor, Influencer, Investor, Teammate, Advisor, client or customer (Client founder) and "my profile" (Your profile). A company or school page only gets Competitor, Investor or Other. - **Post links and other links** are counted and skipped. In a pasted list, a line with a link can end with a role, such as `linkedin.com/company/acme - competitor`. ## Which profiles are checked A results export lists hundreds of people next to the few profiles you watched, so Embers checks only the profiles it reads as sources, up to your plan's room: - a profile in a column named for tracked, monitored or watched profiles, competitors or influencers; - a profile that repeats down a column, such as the post author every engager in a results export engaged with; - every profile in a short sheet of profiles (four columns or fewer, up to 50 profiles) and every link in a pasted list. Everyone else in the file sits under **Show N other profiles in the file**, unchecked: "These look like people your old tool found, not profiles you watched." Check any you want to watch. A row Embers cannot add shows why instead of a role: already on your watchlist, a profile Embers knows has 250,000 or more followers (see [watch any public LinkedIn profile](/help/signals/watchlist/)), or a keyword over 85 characters. Your plan's caps are in [watched profiles and roles](/help/account-and-billing/linkedin-accounts-and-seats/). ## After the import An imported profile is scanned like one you add by hand: its first scan starts at once, or when your workspace goes live if you are still in setup. Keywords are searched within the hour, then daily, and the first keyword starts [keyword tracking](/help/signals/keyword-tracking/). Leads appear on Leads as each scan finds them. Coming from Trigify, the CSV you exported from a saved search works as it is. Trigify had no bulk export for monitored profiles, so paste those as a list. The Trigify switch code **TRIGIFY30** takes 30% off your first three months on a monthly plan; see [skip the trial](/help/account-and-billing/free-trial/#skip-the-trial-when-you-are-ready). ## Troubleshooting **"No LinkedIn profiles or keywords in this file."** The file has no LinkedIn links and no keyword column. Name the keyword column "Keyword", or paste the list instead. **A profile you watched is unchecked.** Its column header looked like a list of people. Check it under **Show N other profiles in the file**. **"Your plan allows 5 watched profile(s). Upgrade to add more."** Your plan's room filled before that row. Remove a watched profile or upgrade, then import it again. ## Related - [Watch any public LinkedIn profile](/help/signals/watchlist/): Roles, statuses and what a watched profile produces. - [Track keywords](/help/signals/keyword-tracking/): How keyword posts become leads. - [Watched profiles and roles](/help/account-and-billing/linkedin-accounts-and-seats/): How many profiles each plan watches. ## Frequently asked questions **Does the import bring in the leads from my Trigify export?** No. It imports the profiles and keywords you tracked. The people a results export lists are shown under other profiles, unchecked, and are not added as leads. Embers finds leads again from the profiles and keywords you import. **Which files work?** A CSV, TSV or plain text file. Save an Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets file as CSV first. Embers reads the first 2 MB of a file, which holds the profiles a results export repeats on every row. **Does an imported profile cost more than one added by hand?** No. Each imported profile and keyword counts toward your plan exactly as one added by hand, and is scanned the same way.