Test Your Site's Link Popularity with Socialmeter

Socialmeter, which I spotted on del.icio.us, scans several major link-tracking sites and spits back an analysis of your URL's popularity. Currently they track links on del.icio.us, digg, Furl, Google, Netscape, Reddit, Technorati and a handful of others. The result is an aggregate count of most of the social links to a Web site and then some. It's handy not just for blogs, but for brand and corporate sites too. There's even a Socialmeter bookmarklet. Drag this link to your toolbar and use it on any URL.

Comments

[philippe]

1195 for me

[sal]

Thats pretty slick, thanks for that, I will give it a try

[Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound]

I wish I knew what the numbers mean.

If my website is 502 and my blog is 914, is that poor, fair, good, excellent, or none of the above?

[Stephen Davies]

A little late on this but the results it brings up aren't correct.

For example, my blog's bookmarked in del.icio.us around 50 times but in Socialmeter it says I have none.

Looks good though.

[Alan Levine]

It is either interesting or another bout of ego surfing. I too found the del.icio.us numbers (mostly zero) questionable using known sites that have been tagged.

Also, why this set of services; there are numerous others (guess these are ones that could be queried via APIs). Why not some sort of weighting system? Is Shadows or Sprul equivalent in wight to say Google or Yahoo (I am not not diminishing those but would question the numbers produced).

A good start though at trying to do some loose joining.

[Brian]

A note about Delicious: They temporarily blocked the Socialmeter IP after traffic exploded. I emailed them and asked them to re-allow the IP, but they said to get lost. So after a while I created a work around and now Delicious numbers are back.

[chris]

Socialmeter is integrated into YurNet.com's metasearch engine results...