Generally Link Popularity is the total number of websites that link to your site. Sometimes we call it website rank, traffic rank or whatever that show how popular is your website or blog comparing to others. This is become important because good link popularity can dramatically increase traffic to your blog. And also knowing the link popularity of a blog is a very simple way to see how good they are.
Basically there are 4 Link Popularity standards that are commonly used :
Google PageRank
Google describe PageRank :PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important".
The numbers rank from 0 to 10. On the last PageRank update OnlineTechJournal PR has been decreased to PR2 from PR3 previously.
Yahoo! Search InLinks
The "InLinks" is a number of web pages pointing to your site. It's based on Yahoo! search. Based on Yahoo! Search InLinks currently there are 401 web pages pointing to OnlineTechJournal.
MSN
This is somehow not popular in measuring blog popularity but similar to Yahoo! Search InLinks, this data shows the number of web pages pointing to your site based on MSN search. Currently there are 11 web pages are pointing to OnlineTechJournal
Alexa Traffic Rank
Alexa Traffic Rank is a very famous tool used to rank web site traffic. Alexa computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources. In Alexa, the lower the rank you have is the better.
There are a huge websites that provide online service to check Link Popularity. Some of them are also provide a widget script so you can put it on your blog. Below are some recommended Link Popularity checkers :
If you know any websites provide the same tool please share it here.
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mypagerank.info
like mypagerant.net
but no widget available.
Thanks for the info. I have added it to the list..:)
Hi James,
For those who having the Alexa Toolbar, they will get the benefit, thus increasing their Alexa page rank. Am i right to say this?
Hi Is,
Actually it's not that way. The one that get the benefit is the blog owner, not the reader in term of Alexa Traffic Rank. But, the blog owner will get the benefit if the blog readers use browsers with Alexa toolbar installed. If not, the visits will not counted by Alexa.