Oct 7, 2005 | Richard Bird | 4 Comments

Web Popularity OCD

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Try this once and some will be hooked. Icon Interactive’s Link Popularity Tool checks the number of pages that link to your site or domain in AlltheWeb, AltaVista, Google, HotBot, MSN Search, Yahoo!, and more.

A site that has a Link Popularity Score of 1,000-5,000 is considered average. A site with a Link Popularity Score of 20,000 is considered popular. Sites with a Link Popularity Score above 100,000 are Internet “Icons”.

Where are you? Where are your competitors… your own “icons”? Now you can know (every day ;).

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Adam Messinger [TypeKey Profile Page] | Oct 17, 2005

I have my doubts about this tool. My personal weblog racked up a score of 155,516 and I hardly consider myself “icon” material. I’m no Jeffrey Zeldman, that’s for sure.

I think where this tool goes astray is in counting all links from every search engine. That’s a sure way to include a lot of duplicates.

Richard Bird | Oct 17, 2005

Adam: Sure, the methods used may not be “exactly right,” but they are consistently right, wrong or suspect. So, if you’re comparing popularity indexes for a given set of domains for competitors, brands, et cetera… everyone is measured the same. Though, the number might not mean anything “real,” it can be used as a relative measure rather than absolute.

Adam Messinger [TypeKey Profile Page] | Oct 17, 2005

Good point. Their measurement scale, however, is still deceptive. One has to wonder how much testing they actually did on this thing before setting the standard for “icon” so low.

P.S. There’s something hinky going on with TypeKey sign-in on this weblog. The first time through it tells me that my sign-in failed, and when I click the “sign in” link again it allows me to comment as though there was never a problem. Just FYI.

stratton [TypeKey Profile Page] | Oct 18, 2005

Adam -
Thanks for the heads up with the TypeKey login “hinkiness” (great phrase, btw). We recently updated our MT install and it looks like there was a conflict with some pre-3.2 template tags. It should be working properly now.

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