Egorati and Who Links to Me
March 24th, 2006 by JJ
Bloggers are self-centered attention whores. Why else would they post their opinions online for all to see, allow people to leave comments, and run searches to see which other sites are linking to them?
I know it sounds like I’m in attack mode today, but the truth is I’m one of the worst offenders. In fact, I’m going to help feed your addiction.
- First up - Egorati:
It’s a term bloggers invented for searching Technorati to find out who links to your site.
I run an egorati search at least once a week. If I get a new linkback, I’ll check out the site, read a couple of posts, and leave a comment thanking them for the linkback. If like the site, I’ll return the favor by linking them on my links page.
Go to Technorati and enter in your web address. Here’s my egorati.
- Next - Who links to me:
This is the same concept as egorati, except it’ll also show you your Google page rank. The higher your page rank, the better your placement in search results. The best way to increase your page rank is to get popular sites to link you. Go to wholinkstome and enter your web address. Here’s my wholinkstome search.
- Next up - Google:
Everyone’s favorite search engine. While Technorati and wholinkstome cater to bloggers, Google indexes nearly every site on the net. This will help you find out if a non-blog site links to you. Go to Google and enter link:(your web address). Here’s my Google linkback search.
- And finally - Statcounter:
A lot of bloggers put counters on their site to see how many hits they get each day. I recommend Statcounter. You can hide the counter, you can check to see where people found your site, and it’s free!
Go to Statcounter and sign up for an account. You’ll have to put a bit of code in your template to track hits. When you’re creating the code, you can choose to have it hidden so no one will see that you’re only getting 10 hits a day - or you can choose to have a cool looking statcounter displayed on your page. I’ve chosen to hide mine, which is why I’m not putting a link to it here. What can I say? I’m shy.
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Narcissism at its finest.
The site is called Ego Surf. It’s fun to play with, but for some strange reason the numbers go up and down with seemingly no rhyme or reason. My first run gave me higher numbers than each successive run, but it’s kind of fun to play with
FyreGoddess:
Oh no… Now I’m addicted! I’ll never get anything else done.
I love Statcounter. It’s the best counter there is!
heehehe @ egorati
btw, i did a similar post about blog ego but limited the “review” to the three blego-stroking-services in an article i’d just read, including egosurf. do drop by 
this is very comforting, more than 2500 junk websites linked to “the Challenge” blah
and yes Statcounter is the best
I love statcounter. It’s addicting to play around with.
You are pathetic!
Sorry… have to go ping Techocrap now …
We all do it. I use Google Analytics, though. Sad, in a way, isn’t it?
[…] Be generous with your blogroll. When you come across a site that you find moderately interesting, link to it. A lot of bloggers regularly check wholinkstome and Technorati (aka an Egorati search). They’ll see you linked to them, read your latest entry, and they may link to you out of courtesy. If your blogroll starts getting out of control, you can put it on a separate page. […]