Though I have been using Technorati for a while now to run some relevant blog searching (just checking who have been linking to me or mentioned me in their blog that I did not know of), I checked out several others just to compare them based on search results for my blog.
Results for Sites Linked to:
Technorati: 82 links from 62 sites (Rank: 27,130)
IceRocket: 36 links from 26 blogs
BlogPulse: 114 links
Feedster: 75 links
Though BlogPulse found the most number of inbound links, they were not measured by unique blogs so you’d get multiple link counts from one blog. IceRocket was able to track both the incoming links and the source blogs but they were less than half of what Technorati found.
Technorati seems to be doing very well in terms of coverage and tracking. The ranking system is also a good measure how your blog stands in the blogosphere. I’m hoping more features are added to these services.
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Total number of links is irrelevant. These tools are about finding new links, not 2 yr old links.
http://www.kbcafe.com/links.aspx?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yugatech.com
One of the owners of Icerocket is Marc Cuban, who owns the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, his blog is http://www.blogmaverick.com, hosted by weblogsinc. Which is the company of Jason Calacanis, who placed that $10k bounty on anybody who can make a better blog site ranking tool than technorati… small world
Thanks for mentioning IceRocket. Feel free to email us w/ suggestions anytime.
Blake Rhodes
IceRocket.com
rhodes at icerocket.com
Cool!… that was fast… 6 hours after Yuga posted, blake from icerocket posts… companies can actually use these tools as a portal as to how the public perceives them…
whoops, forgot the link here
http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000893051645/
Technorati has been one the first in this game, and they’ve been doing particularly well in providing coverage. I wouldn’t be surprised if they get gobbled up by some big search company like google or yahoo. Maybe any day now, but that’s just a wild guess.