Naymz vs. LinkedIn: Why I Like Naymz Better
I interviewed personal identity management site Naymz in June and signed up for an account with them.

Naymz provided me with a profile page that now ranks 9th in organic on Google for "Garrett French", along with a paid search ad that shows up on Google, Yahoo, MSN and others.

What I like best about Naymz though is that they send me emails to tell me everytime someone looks at my profile page and where they're located. It's a big ego-gratifier.

I got an email from Naymz recently that stated, among other things, "Our goal is to make Naymz into a community where people can network and connect with others who have similar identities and interests."

That's when I started thinking - LinkedIn should buy Naymz or Naymz should just start moving in the LinkedIn business vertical social networking direction and let my colleagues leave wonderful and elaborate descriptions of how much smarter they are after working with me.

I'm not a major LinkedIn user - do they show who's been looking at your page?

Naymz would you care to comment about your direction?

LinkedIn have you guys thought of selling paid search ads to individuals so their LinkedIn profile pages will show up in search results?

Does LinkedIn show up in organic results already?

Update:
This gmail ad showed up in my inbox with an email from Tom Drugan of Naymz. It's a paid ad for Facebook's Matt Cohler's LinkedIn profile page.

Is this a service that LinkedIn is already providing? Or did Mr. Cohler buy this himself? N-E-body no?

Update 2:
A commenter from http://www.localeze.com/ informs me that LinkedIn offered vanity urls for folks. MySpace and YouTube both do that as well. He says the ones for LinkedIn show up reasonably well in organic SERPs.
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