How is WebKEW doing at the 90-day point?

At the two-month point, we took a look at the progress of WebKEW in this post. At that point, 60 days into this project, WebKEW had 383 links in Google.

Here we are about a month later, 90 days into the project, and there are two things to note:

1. The number of links is continuing to grow. On June 17, WebKEW now has 4,940 inbound links according to Google:
   
   
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   What kind of sites are linking to WebKEW? Go into Google, type WebKEW and you can see. It's all over the map, from personal web sites to blogs to social networking sites to business sites. There was a day where WebKEW appeared on the Popular list at Del.icio.us and that certainly generated some links. WebKEW benefited from some exposure on Digg.com. The folks at TeamDroid.com were nice enough to add WebKEW to their template and that is extremely helpful. And so on.
   
   To go from 400 links to 5,000 links in 30 days is a strong rise. When we look again in a month, the number of links may decline a bit as things adjust and settle out. Or they may continue growing at a more subdued pace. Or they may rise significantly again. Only time will tell. But you get the idea -- even if it does fall next month, the number of links into WebKEW is growing at a reasonable clip right now.
   
   Let me take a moment to say a special THANK YOU to everyone who has taken the time to link to WebKEW. It is truly appreciated.
   
   
2. WebKEW has been assigned a PageRank by Google. WebKEW's PageRank is currently 6.
   
   
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   A three-month period of time like that for the assignment of PageRank is fairly typical. A PageRank of 6 is a nice place to be for an initial PageRank. We will talk about where PageRank comes from, and what it means, tomorrow.

So things are proceeding.

If you are creating your own Web site, you should track your metrics like this. See how many links you have every 30 days. Wait 90 days see what PageRank Google assigns to you. As mentioned in this post, if you have only 1 or 2 inbound links after 90 days, that is telling you something. If you have 1,000 or 5,000 inbound links, that is telling you something else.

It will be interesting to see where we are a month from now. THANK YOU again to everyone who has been kind enough to link to WebKEW.