9 Free Tools to check Social Media Backlinks & Popularity of your website

Checking Backlinks are so 2008 ! Social Media backlinks are the “in thing”. And fortunately, social media popularity checker tool are cute. Here are nine of such awesome online tools that will help monitor your social media popularity. They check backlinks from Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Reddit and all that !

1. PageBoss

Checks backlinks from all reputed social media sites. Clean interface. Supports four languages.

 

2. URL Matrix

Amazingly fast tool. Analyzes everything from Alexa to Technorati to Compete.

 

3. Social Scan

Quick and easy to use tool. Scans popular social media channels like Stumbleupon, Delicious, Digg for backlinks.

 

4. Site Mention

Cool tool, digs up all possible social media mentions about your site on Twitter, Friend Feed, Youtube, Myspace, Flickr, Yahoo Answers, Digg, Delicious, Furl and Reddit.

 

5. Quark Base

Analyzes every detail possible about a website including its ownership, server details and a huge list of details from social media channels.

 

6. Website Grader

The popular grader platform. Does a pretty job in grabbing all the info related to a website right from on site optimization metrics to off site factors like inbound links to social media channels pointing to the site.

 

7. Back Tweets

This tool finds you all the backlinks from Twitter to your site. Amazingly quick !

 

8. Popuri.us

Nice tool with a great visual appeal, check major factors like Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati, del.icio.us, etc for mentions.

 

9.  Social Meter

An average tool that checks the basic numbers from Del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, Google, Jots, Linkroll, Netscape, Reddit, Shadows, Spurl, Technorati, and Yahoo My Web.

BONUS

Site Volume

This is a nice tool that will help you find the frequency of mentions abut a particular keyword on social media sites like Digg, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube etc, and make comparison charts, giving you idea about what content is popular on each site.