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URLFAN is a quick way to see what bloggers and web sites are linking back to your own site.

Much like alexa.com, URLFAN is one way to judge how effective your online presence is. In many ways, having a good number of blogs linking back to your site shows just how the most engaged online users — bloggers — feel about your site.

Here’s a rundown of a few Cleveland-area media sites, ranked by popularity on URLFAN as of April 4, 2006:

1. ohio.com — mentioned in 141 feeds, ranked 561 out of 1,230,303 sites
2. cleveland.com — mentioned in 97 feeds, ranked 839
3. newsnet5.com — mentioned in 45 feeds, ranked 2351
4. wkyc.com — mentioned in 22 feeds, ranked 5627
5. wcpn.com — mentioned in 3 feeds, ranked 29793
6. fox8cleveland.com, woio.com and wtam.com were not ranked.

Here’s a list of their top 100 ranked sites

Unlike technorati.com, URLFAN is a different way of presenting the information on blogs — concerned more with ranking sites rather than showing recent blog activity about a site.

As the power of remixing web sites continues to grow (through blogs, mash-ups and community sites), tracking just how often bloggers refer to your site will become an important metric for sites.

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