Do you ever wonder how popular, I mean how really popular a website is?

Perhaps you’re wondering if you should get some ads and/ or place ads on your webpage, or maybe you’re wondering about your search stats, or maybe you just want to see how much someone else values your website.

Here is a list of tools or sites, that help you determine the value of your website as well as its popularity.

I would take any estimate with a grain of salt, since these are just estimates. I can tell you on a first-hand basis, but I wish I had the kind of revenue.say that I am supposed to have from my ads on my site. Having said that, I think I need to look at the placement of my ads and optimize them for better click throughs.

1. Yahoo site explorer. This is the granddaddy, so to speak, of these types of sites. It breaks down the site and shows you how many incoming links a site house, as well as the source of the incoming links. This can be useful if you’re trying to figure out how many more links you need and someone else in order to beat them out for a particular keyword phrase. Yes that simplistic, but it’s true.
2. Socialmeter. I’m not really sure what makes this site useful, other than it adds all of the  links that a particular site has across all of the social bookmarking sites. Doesn’t really evaluate anything, it just aggregates the totals and that’s it.
3. Tweetvolume this website shows you the volume of tweaks or twitter messages that have gone out for a particular word. There is no guidance as far as what kind of time frame this tool looks at, but it is interesting to see how many times does a particular word has been said or tweeted about.
4. Cubestat. This website, gives you the stats for the URL that you enter in the search field. It reads back daily page views, incoming links, estimated ad revenue, among other things.
5. Feed compare. This site allows you to indulge in some mine is bigger than yours comparisons of feedburner subscriptions. Basically it looks at how many people are subscribed to a website speed and compares him to how many people are subscribed on another feed.
6. Website outlook.  Just like cubestat, this site gives you  valuation numbers for your website.

Take whatever number comes out of these websites with a grain of salt. There are many, many questions that I still have about the reliability of this data, as well as the source and the timeframe. Don’t be discouraged by whatever numbers come out of these sites. I should also say, don’t get too excited with whatever numbers come out of the sites either.