Why You Should Monitor Your Link Popularity
Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by Isaac Yassar in Blogging
Hello there!
When was the last time you checked your link popularity?
As we know, link popularity represents the fame of a web address in term of number and spread of links, compared to other sites in the internet. Its algorithm is based on the indexing of major search engines.
Why should we monitor our link popularity?
1. Progress
Knowing that our blog is keep making progress is good. Link popularity is a nice and exact way to monitor the growth of our blogs. The more popular our link becomes, the better for SEO.
2. Passion
Monitoring the growth of our link popularity is a fun thing to do. It helps us in enjoying blogging and grow our passion there. Passion is very important for us in reaching our goals in blogging, either monetized one or just as a hobby.
How to check link popularity?
To check your link popularity, I recommend using a free tool from SubmitExpress.com . The good part is that there is no captcha to fill. You can just use the tool directly.
To use it, click here.
This tool allows you to check up to 3 domains for their link popularity. So you can compare your site with others’ too in one click.
In the result page, we can compare our link popularity with plenty of other sites with various level of popularity. And of course, Google has the highest level of popularity out there.
However, adding www and not are counted as different domains. If you are unsure, just check the two versions of your domain, with www and not.
From my experience, link popularity changed every 5-7 days of period. So we can’t check everyday and expect some significant changes.
If we actively publish new posts and leave our links on the internet (via commenting, social media, etc), our link popularity will grow steadily. Both dofollow and nofollow links improve our link popularity.
Try the tool buddy 
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About Isaac Yassar
I am a part-time blogger who really loves blogging and WordPress.
I always want to be a better blogger and this blog is a journal for it. Read more on my about page.
Dana @ LetUpdate
21. Dec, 2009
It seems that my link popularity quite low in google.
Isaac Yassar
21. Dec, 2009
Mine too. I think that’s just the way it is. It’s the nature of Google.
Jim Clary
21. Dec, 2009
Thanks for some great info, Isaac. I look forward to your posts.
Isaac Yassar
21. Dec, 2009
You are welcome Jim. It’s my pleasure tho share some information. You are always welcomed here buddy.
George Serradinho
21. Dec, 2009
Thanks man, just went to go see where mine stands and it’s between 100,001 and 1,000,000 which I think is not that bad.
Isaac Yassar
21. Dec, 2009
Great one George. I hope my blog can also reach it by the same age as yours.
Leif Andersen
21. Dec, 2009
Hmm…interesting. It would appear that the three ways to get to my site would make a difference:
submitexpress.com/cgi-bin/linkpoptest/popular.pl?url1=leifandersen.net&url2=www.leifandersen.net&url3=leifandersen.wordpress.com&email=
not surprisingly, leifandersen.wordpress.com is 72, leifandersen.net is 130ish, and I was really surprised to see http://www.leifandersen.net was about 500.
Isaac Yassar
22. Dec, 2009
That’s interesting. I never actually run a wordpress.com blog so I can’t try it.
Leif Andersen
22. Dec, 2009
Well, I wasn’t surprised that the leifandersen.wordpress.com blog had so few links, I did very little promoting of it until I got my own domain name. But I was surprised about the difference that the www made. Still this is an interesting tool, do you know how it gets it’s links?
Isaac Yassar
22. Dec, 2009
As far as I know, from major search engines. The more our links indexed in search engines, the higher our link popularity.
Blogging Tips
21. Dec, 2009
Great tool My link popularity is between 2500 to 10000.
Isaac Yassar
22. Dec, 2009
Same with me buddy. Mine’s also there.
alaJoAnn
22. Dec, 2009
Great tool! It’s the first time I’ve gotten a clear picture of who is linking to my site. 39 sites linking in, for a total of 808 links. Better than I expected.
Does that help to explain why my site, with little traffic, has a PR 4? (At least according to PageRank Checker.)
On the other hand, what does PR really represent? It can’t be that important. In another post you shared the “secret” of how you labored in the WP Forum to get a PR 4 (with your wonderful site). My humble site has achieved the same PR!
I’ll continue watching link popularity as a progress measure. It seems more valid than PageRank. Thanks for illuminating a piece of the puzzle.
Isaac Yassar
22. Dec, 2009
You’re welcome. Yes, I believe the links has something to do with your PR.
And IMO, it’s hard to define the real meaning of Google PageRank because there are many hidden algorithms related to it (hidden to avoid abuse). But as far as I know, Google aims to give good ranks to sites with valuable contents, not the sites with super-smart webmasters (in SEO) and no value.
Anne @ b6s.net
22. Dec, 2009
It’s good advice if you focus on a handful of sites. Not that practical for multiple sites/blogs management. Just not enough hours in the day…
Isaac Yassar
22. Dec, 2009
Yeah. If we have too many blogs to take care, we can end up with none of them become really meaningful or big because we can’t devote enough time to grow it.
ileane
23. Dec, 2009
Isaac,
This is an amazing tool that you shared with us. I have a wordpress.com blog so my score is rather low. That’s ok it gives me something to strive for.
Thanks!
@Ileane
Isaac Yassar
23. Dec, 2009
You’re welcome Ileane. Yeah, this tool helps us bloggers enjoy blogging more. A simple nice tool.
Mel Menzies
23. Dec, 2009
Thanks for this Isaac. I’m off to use the tool. Will let you know what my popularity is – unless I have to hang my head in shame.
Isaac Yassar
23. Dec, 2009
My pleasure Mel. Hahaha don’t worry mine’s also low. The important thing is the growth
Kidgas
23. Dec, 2009
I was surprised to see that I actually had as many links as I did for my blog. I am hoping to see my Page Rank improve over time also. Thanks for this interesting tool. I bookmarked it so I can check it every few weeks.
Isaac Yassar
23. Dec, 2009
Yup, I’ve also bookmarked it on my Mozilla Firefox. I don’t wanna type its address or Google it every now and then
Will
23. Dec, 2009
Hi,
First time here – and really impressed with this cool tool.
I’m sure I’ll use it every week or so. Thanks!
Will
Isaac Yassar
23. Dec, 2009
Hi Will. Welcome to my humble site. Btw, the tool’s result changes everyday if our site keeps growing. But the change is not very significant compared to its weekly change, of course
sakthikumaran
23. Dec, 2009
It is very useful for bloggers. thanks for the great post.
Isaac Yassar
23. Dec, 2009
You’re welcome buddy. It’s a cool piece of tool, worthy of writing on a post.
Kikolani
23. Dec, 2009
It’s been awhile since I have checked my link popularity. Honestly, I haven’t thought too much about it… I have a good amount of traffic incoming from Google, and a flow of regular visitors, so I just assume that means that I must be doing well in search engines and kind of let that be.
Isaac Yassar
23. Dec, 2009
Hi Kikolani. I actually haven’t used the tool for a while too. When I read a post on my buddy’s blog about increasing link popularity, I remembered about this fun tool. So I wrote it
EarningStep
27. Dec, 2009
great tools , i got total 20329 links . but most of them come from yahoo …it’s to bad… isn’t it ?
Isaac Yassar
27. Dec, 2009
I think it’s normal. Google always give less links then the others. Perhaps they omit some similar links, just like in their search results.
Tinh
28. Dec, 2009
I guess mine is bad as my blog is quite new but it is not too bad then from 10,001 to 25,000. Thanks
Isaac Yassar
31. Dec, 2009
That’s pretty cool! Congrats Tinh. Keep up the good work
Kok Siong Chen
29. Dec, 2009
Thanks for sharing! I would like to give it a try for this tool.
Isaac Yassar
31. Dec, 2009
Be my guess buddy. Try it. You won’t regret it
Rose
04. Jan, 2010
Unlike Yahoo and MSN, Google does not always display all your backlinks. SubmitExpress.com is just one way of checking. You should really check your incoming links through various methods to get a wider scope of just who is linking to your blog. EX: Technorati, Google Blogsearch, etc
Isaac Yassar
04. Jan, 2010
Thanks for the suggestions Rose. For me, Submit Express is just for fun. I’m not really interested in checking the real link number. I prefer building content and hang out here and there
David Lindsay
19. Jan, 2010
The end result of a blogger’s efforts is more important than any ranking given by a tool. For you Isaac, if you are happy with the discussions that your posts cause, then that is what counts. For a commercial blog, the income generated is what matters. As a few people have said, the results these tools give, page rank etc are influenced by so many factors.