Initially, I wrote this first post: Sometimes it pays to read those newsletters that come from various companies. A link on Jayde.com’s newsletter reveals a great free SEO and website stats tool. The “Link Popularity” tab will return instant results which eliminates the need to look up these findings manually…. Check it out here: http://www.getip.com But then, I double checked the stats against the tool I use regularly, Quirk’s Search Status for Firefox which can be found here, or at Firefox Extensions. Comparing the two, or conducting a manual check for backlinks indicates a flaw in the getip.com reporting. The Google PageRank and Alexa Rank seem to be correct, but the backlinks are way off compared to SearchStatus. I recommend the Search Status extension for Firefox, but I’m going to use the getip.com site for other things as well. Maybe it was just a temporary glitch. Too bad, I really thought I was on to something! What’s your opinion?