Who’s Linking to Your Site? - Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web - page 94

Figure 6.2
Checking for links to
Cnnsi.com. note that
technorati also shows
when the result was
found.
Watching Blog rolls for Your U rL
Many blogs contain lists of links to other blogs; these lists of links are called blogrolls .
Blogrolls are great discovery tools. they exist because of two primary assumptions: if you're
interested enough in someone to read their blog, you might also be interested in what they read,
and if you like one type of blog, the other ones listed in a blogroll might be similar enough that
you'll like them too.
if you have a blog or a site that is popular with blogs, you might ind that your urL ends up on
blogrolls. to track these, try using Blogrolling (blogrolling.com). Blogrolling lets you set up a
blogroll and search through blogrolls for the urL of your choice. You'll be able to see how many
blogs that use the Blogrolling.com service are linking to you. run a search for your urL, and then
put a page monitor on the results.
Blogrolling's search doesn't list every possible blog that links to you, of course, only those that use
the Blogrolling service. But it's another interesting data point to add to your information traps.
If you don't have an account with Technorati, the easiest way to monitor its
search results is with a page monitor. But I really recommend you get an
account—it's free and only requires a name and e-mail address.