How Popular is Your Blog?

• Posted by B Jones on May 19th, 2006 - Comment on this Post »

UPDATE: Unfortunately, it looks like pubsub is gone.
While doing a search for [blog popularity] in Google the other day, I stumbled across a great site called PubSub. I’m not even going to pretend that I have a full understanding of everything that the site offers, but I will talk a bit about one specific part of it.

PubSub offers a great tool that keeps track of blogs, and more specifically XML (RSS /ATOM) feed publishers. PubSub have developed their own ranking system, similiar to that of Alexa, but they seem to use a much more informed approach to calculate their rank.

Below is a 30 day chart that shows every link into your site and every link out. You can actually click the blue links “1 site” or “5 sites” and it will show a list of all inbound or outbound links for that day.

Here are examples of the other stats that are available.

Note: You can view stats a site without an xml feed, but since data is based on xml feeds, it will only show info about sites that linked to you in an xml feed

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