Having a background in employment/recruiting search engine work and online reputation control for professionals, I decided to give Naymz a spin for development work. Namyz allows you to put up a profile just like Linkedin, but is shooting for more of a “rep control” aspect of interacting with the search engines and your social network. After a precursory trip through the free tools, I did find a variety of “premium options” for getting myself indexed a little higher in Google. I don’t know if that makes sense for a technical user, as you can simply add a variety of free profiles and coordinate them, but for a non-techie user who wants a single point of control Naymz may be a good solution. (However, I often preach to not put all your eggs in one basket!)

I was immediately turned down from the spammy “invite your friends/contacts” from other social networks. I included one of my basis Linkedin lists just to see it work, and to track how many people in my network accepted the invite. I can only assume the invite rate will be low, as the invite was not custom and probably included a wonderfully spammy e-mail.

Naymz offers a variety of tracking and promotional items ranging up to about $100 per year. Part of this premium service appears to be a pay per click campaign on your own name which is limited to a certain budget level (so it works if you are not popular or searched often, and worthless if you are.)

Some items that I found interesting from the website as far as benefits: (which I can’t test for a while, until there is a little data to actually back it up)

Visitor Tracking

You get these details about who is visiting your profile:

• Visit Date
• Visitor City, State and Country
• Visitor IP Address
• Visitor Name (when available)
• The page that referred the visitor

You also receive these details directly in instant visit notification emails

To help control what people find when they search for you online, you get:

• Premium placement in Google, Yahoo!, MSN and more
• Placements for combinations of your Title, First, Middle, Last, Nickname and Maiden Nam
• A personalized description on your placements
• Placements that link directly to your profile

In a month or so I will circle back to the Naymz system and see what happens.

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