I have used web-based website popularity services before as well as popularity functionality from other paid softwares as well, but this new product from SubmitSuite brought some new interesting stats to the table.

Here's a list of what's being checked.

Inbound links (IBL)

◊ alltheweb inbound links
◊ Altavista inbound links
◊ Google inbound links
◊ Inktomi/Hotbot inbound links
◊ Msn inbound links
◊ Technorati inbound links
◊ Yahoo inbound links
◊ Alexa Linking websites

Popularity (PageRanks)

◊ Alexa rank
◊ Yahoo rank
◊ Google page rank
◊ Netcraft rank - new !!!

Indexed pages

◊ Google's indexed pages
◊ Yahoo! pages indexed
◊ MSN pages indexed
◊ Gigablast pages indexed
◊ Exalead pages indexed

Social taggings

◊ Del.icio.us bookmarks
◊ Digg.com mentions
◊ Reddit mentions

Important directories and site listings

◊ DMOZ links
◊ .EDU links
◊ .GOV links
◊ Wikipedia listing
◊ Yahoo Directory listing
◊ Google groups listing

Press and media mentions

◊ Google News
◊ Yahoo News
◊ Google blog presence - new !!!
◊ IceRocket blog presence - new !!!

SEO informations

◊ Domain visibility - new !!!
◊ Domain visible from - new !!!
◊ Actual IP - new !!!

What I like about this product is that it sits on your desktop. This means only you will have access to your data.

I never thought about being able to quantify social taggings as a good tool for SEO and web popularity measurement. Now that it is available, it is nice to see how your site performs against your competitor's websites.

You even get to have stats about press and media mentions which is something new.

Check it out at website popularity