Twitter’s search tools might be nice, however it does not really leave me wanting more.  Rather than it, I have turned towards Topsy.  If you want to know what other people are tweeting about, sharing with friend or anything else this search engine is the best of the best. 

Now, no matter if you believe search engine optimization is a bunch of horse hockey or a real science, there is no doubt that there are a lot of great tools built to help you check into your SEO needs. 
Here are some of the Web’s best tools for checking online popularity.

PRSearch.net Popularity Tools
Webconfs.com – [...]

Just wanted to share some exciting news this morning, Mitchelaneous has finally broken the 600 subscribers mark!  I’ve been watching this one for a while, since I had been hovering in 580 subscribers to 590 subscribers for some time.
To check out every single post, be sure to check out the archives (all of them [...]

As I remove MySpace and add Plurk to my own Mitchelaneous side bar, I thought this would be as good of a time as any to bring up the fact that you should not be afraid to socialize and meet new people.  Sure, some places build a fan following because of great content but [...]

Looks like my post-Firefox 3 bump in stats is starting to come to an end for Firefox Facts.   While the madness was going on (one post got up to 80+ comments!) I came up with a few tactics to try to milk the proverbial press cow as long as I could.
Watch where people are [...]

This is a tool I think Google and/or FeedBurner would be smart to pick up as soon as possible.  FeedCompare.com allows you to compare any two feed subscriptions to see how you stack up against the competition.

Above you can see the results of the Mitchelaneous RSS subscription feed numbers in comparison with my podcast, the [...]

Want to see how popular you are on the Web? I recently found a pretty neat program that checks your popularity against some other web sites that you might be competing against for eyeballs out there on the Web. Link Popularity Check does an alright job and giving you the facts and figures [...]

There is no doubt that the two “easy ways out” when it comes to Web popularity – you either know somebody famous that mentions your service or you. The second way would be to pay lots and lots of money on advertising. Other than that, building a “successful” brand on your own is [...]

I was looking through the archives for my podcast and a few popularity tracking scripts for WordPress and it really is neat to see what podcasts really are the most popular ones. Why keep this list secret though?
You deserve to see the most popular hosting podcasts. Heck you are the reason these are [...]

I have been a big fan of Steve Rubel’s writing for a long time – so I was more than happy to see that he found his way to my Google Reader article that I wrote a few days ago. After he did link to me and del.icio.us put me on the front page, [...]