Another way to track the status & traffic of your blog comes our way from Wholinked.com. This is a neat little sidebar widget that queries search engines for your most recent inbound links and outputs them in a list. The service is currently free, although the "what's this?" link at the bottom of the box flashes an ad when you select it. For a review of the service, (and an interesting "marketing" challenge w/ a cash prize attached) see Technology Evangelist. Two ways to look at this, of course.... it tells you who linked to you, and tells your readers how authoritative you are based on how authoritative your inbounds are, but it also serves as an automatic backlink on your site for anyone who links in, including those ever creative "marketers"...

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