SocialScan shows your web site's social networking stats

Posted Apr 10th 2008 6:30PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

If you run a blog or other web site, odds are you already know how important social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon can be for generating traffic. But while you may be used to seeing large traffic spikes from these sources occasionally, over time social bokmarking sites can give you yet another gauge of your blog's popularity. Have your stories been Dugg or stumbled more times than your competitors? SocialScan makes it easy to find out.

Just enter any URL into SocialScan and the service will look up the site on 12 different social bookmarking/news sites. Some measures are more thorough than others. For example, you'll only find out how many times that exact URL (ie: your homepage) has been submitted to sites like StumbleUpon or Reddit, while the Digg results will show any time a web page starting with your URL has been submitted.

[via MakeUseOf]

Tags: news, social-bookmarking, social-scan, socialscan

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

4-10-2008 @ 7:40PM

Tom said...

That's silly, you can do a reddit search for your domain!

http://reddit.com/search?advanced=True&domain=downloadsquad.com

4-10-2008 @ 7:47PM

alienvenom said...

Not the same thing... not at all.

This site searches many of the blogosphere directory sites, including Reddit.

4-11-2008 @ 12:22AM

Tom said...

This sadly won't be seen by alienvenom since I can only respond to myself, but I was obviously pointing out that the stupid site can't find any links that aren't directly to the URL you post, when in fact it's quite possible and there's no way to contact SocialScan to let them know

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