See Who’s Reading Your LinkedIn Profile

Trackbacks/Pings (Trackback URL)

1. Allen Stern
   

   May 10th, 2007 at 6:30 pm

   Mike - I don’t see that option on the right bar - is this only for premium sub members? No idea if you are one but thought perhaps that’s the difference.

2. ParanoidLinkedOut
   

   May 10th, 2007 at 6:42 pm

   What’s going to happen next is we will see the # of LinkedIn users rise as members create proxy accounts to see without their identities being disclosed.

   I have no idea what utility this function serves.

3. Josh
   

   May 10th, 2007 at 7:03 pm

   This is a community building function and is one of the primary reasons for MyBlogLog’s success.

4. Swarmski
   

   May 10th, 2007 at 7:16 pm

   I like the idea, but the feature doesn’t yet seem to have been deployed to all accounts; any ideas when it will be officially released ?

5. Louis Gray
   

   May 10th, 2007 at 7:30 pm

   I originally asked for this feature in February.

   Via How to Make LinkedIn Even Better, I said the site could improve by:

   1. How many times your personal profile has been visited
   2. Who has recently visited your personal profile

   Done. Nice job, LinkedIn.

6. Jay
   

   May 10th, 2007 at 7:47 pm

   Yea, I don’t see it either.

7. Paul
   

   May 10th, 2007 at 8:23 pm

   I don’t see it, either. Must be only for some accounts right now.

8. kaytedid
   

   May 10th, 2007 at 8:38 pm

   there’s a link to it on the homepage when you are logged in. on the right side.

9. Swarmski
   

   May 10th, 2007 at 8:45 pm

   @8: Good pointer; thank you.

   The hints as to who has been watching are needlessly vague, however; someone in engineering function of the internet industry watched my page ? Well, I would sort of expect that to be the case. The real question is: who is it ?

10. Chris Rindone
    

    May 10th, 2007 at 8:51 pm

    I found it in Account & Settings > Profile Views.

    Seems that it’s a good way to be alerted of people who could potentially do you some good, offer you a project, or whatever.

    It’s also good that you have the option to not have certain info disclosed when you view profiles. Choice is good!

11. RaJ
    

    May 10th, 2007 at 9:03 pm

    Its a good feature, but not sure how useful it is in linked in. This feature is good for hi5 or myspace or orkut.

    http://www.suggestusability.com

12. Gal Josefsberg
    

    May 10th, 2007 at 9:12 pm

    Excellent. LinkedIn is merging usefulness and “fun”. This feature is sort of like DIGG’s swarm tool, not really useful but fun to watch. Still, Linked In is the only networking tool I still use so I guess they must be doing something right.

    GJ
    http://www.60in3.com

13. Dave
    

    May 10th, 2007 at 10:00 pm

    I see the options in accounts & settings > profile views, but I don’t see any links to see who has been looking at my profile.

    I looked at both the homepage as well as the “My Profile” pages.

    I’m guessing it hasn’t been rolled out to everybody yet..and I’m a fairly newer user.

14. lux
    

    May 10th, 2007 at 10:38 pm

    I was able to find the feature, but it was in the right column on my user homepage, not my profile page.

    Free users only get to see details on the last 5 people who have viewed your profile. To see more, you must upgrade.

15. Jeremy
    

    May 10th, 2007 at 10:40 pm

    This is a very good idea by linkedin. My partner actually suggested we offer similar a while ago for our site, and we started collecting the data, but haven’t offered it publicly yet.

    Would people want to “opt out” of such a feature, eg, if they were looking up competitor’s for example…they might want that to stay private.

16. sf
    

    May 10th, 2007 at 11:01 pm

    Why would anyone want to let people know s/he is spying at their profiles?! This is just a stupid feature that most people would like to turn off.

17. kay
    

    May 10th, 2007 at 11:01 pm

    It’s been rolled out to everyone, however, if no one has viewed your profile in the last week then the feature won’t appear on your homepage. In our next version, you’ll be able to see the number of times your profile has appeared in search results (even if it wasn’t clicked on).

18. Jope
    

    May 10th, 2007 at 11:44 pm

    It’s something Xing (a LinkedIn competitor, used to be Open Business Connections or something like that) had from day 1.

    It’s nice to see LinkedIn is rolling out something useful, unlike the ‘ask your network’ thing. Anyone know how to turn that off…?

19. Dennis Bjørn Petersen
    

    May 11th, 2007 at 12:12 am

    Nice feature, but curse them for trying to make money

20. Bryce
    

    May 11th, 2007 at 3:32 am

    big brother, anyone?

21. Lars
    

    May 11th, 2007 at 3:47 am

    Once more the Linkedin-Team copyied functionalities of XING. After the public profiles, integration of external Links its now “who visited me”.

22. Michael Wolff
    

    May 11th, 2007 at 3:56 am

    next to useless. you have to be a paying memmber to view more than five, and in any case, not being able to see who it was doesn’t help. Ecademy’s service that provides an alert everytime someone visits your profile with a link to their profile is really useful. That’s what LinkedIn should be offering.

23. Allen Stern
    

    May 11th, 2007 at 4:24 am

    Alright Mike notes that you only see this if someone has viewed your profile - so here is mine, http://www.linkedin.com/in/allenstern

    Please view it so I can see this thing.

    What’s funny is that this is a horrible development practice. If no one has viewed it, the box should say that rather than leaving the box off completely.

24. Jimmy Daniels
    

    May 11th, 2007 at 7:15 am

    Well, I have been all over the site and can’t find it, even on Michael’s profile, could they have pulled it already?

25. pallet jack
    

    May 11th, 2007 at 7:24 am

    hmm - Makes me want to get a linkedin account -

    So that is it’s utility; also imagine this on myspace …. It’ll be there soon

26. Ron K Jeffries
    

    May 11th, 2007 at 7:51 am

    Thanks for the tip. I have an ongoing love/hate relationship with LinkedIn.

    Right now I’m back to liking it. But They have not yet convinced me to send them money, but I’m tempted…

27. Anand
    

    May 11th, 2007 at 8:00 am

    @ ##2

    No, that is not required. LinkedIn offers you 3 options

    Show my name and headline
    Only show my anonymous profile characteristics, such as industry and title
    Don’t show users that I’ve viewed their profile

    So, you may choose the 3rd option…

28. Jeremy Wright
    

    May 11th, 2007 at 8:33 am

    I like it. It’ll be more useful once more folk turn on their name. It’s just a great way to choose to reach out or, worst case, to see the kinds of people who stumble upon your profile.

29. Chris Byrne
    

    May 11th, 2007 at 8:34 am

    Good to see Linkedin doing this finally.

    It’s been on XING (previously OpenBC) for some time. However they have engineered it to encourage people to upgrade to the Pro account and is not enabled on all accounts (steals valuable ad space!)

    It’s fun for a while but soon you will want to turn it off when people who try and sell you things keep visiting you so that you see their visit data.

30. Mr. E.
    

    May 12th, 2007 at 9:50 am

    Pretty funny the guy from xing claiming he invented this. This is not a new concept (business networking site ryze had this six years ago). Kudos for linkedin for not revealing the exact name without specific permission and for not revealing personal information even if people pay. They obviously think about this much more carefully than other sites.

31. Jay
    

    May 12th, 2007 at 4:21 pm

    Neat! I wonder if this will provide any visual differences if viewed by someone in your network vs. outside your network?

32. Peter Cunningham
    

    May 14th, 2007 at 5:53 am

    Quote : ‘It’s something Xing (a LinkedIn competitor, used to be Open Business Connections or something like that) had from day 1.’

    I don’t know who invented it but it has been a standard part of Viadeo (www.viadeo.com) for a long time. Our principle is that you need to let people see you looked at their profile to see whose been looking at yours - that’s simple fairness. You can of course hide your full name - eg I could be Peter C.

    There seems to be serial copying in this business

    That ought to tell something to the thousands of aspirants hoping to start the ‘new business network online’ on the back of a few technological gimmics.

33. bob
    

    May 16th, 2007 at 6:22 pm

    a fart stinks