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Since so many bloggers don’t understand how and why to use trackbacks, it’s always a good idea to use other ways to learn about who’s linking your site.

Most bloggers know to create a Google Alert that will email them when their site is mentioned, but even that method has its flaws. Today I had a reminder of just how flawed those alerts can be. See, I have one set up for each of my blogs and, in theory, I should receive an alert whenever I’m linked. In practice, it’s an entirely different story.

So imagine my surprise when I received an email from a service I haven’t even signed up with, ://URLFan. The alert informed me that Electric Venom was linked several days ago by a high-traffic blog I actually read fairly regularly. I hadn’t even seen the link there!

Turns out, ://URLFan tracks all domain mentions and ranks traffic much the same way that Alexa does. There’s one difference, though: Alexa only uses certain sources to count visits while ://URLFan uses concrete data including real-time traffic, incoming links and feeds, then compares that to the rest of the blogosphere.

Currently, ://URLFan is reading 1,301,584 feeds; parsing 73,555,094 posts; and ranking 1,515,000 domains with the numbers constantly growing. (You can check EV’s ranking here.)

For those who’ve been wondering how their blog measures up to others, or just for a way to stay on top of who’s saying what about their site, this looks to be another great resource to add to your list.

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