I've been trying to find better ways to evaluate which (of all of the blog posts our team has written) is the most popular. Of course I can (and do) look at the logs and browse through the ones with the most hits, but our site has a lot of hits & has many pages. I figured that by searching for sites that people bothered to collect add to Delicious I'd get the ones that really struck a chord with people.

The first problem I ran into is that Delicious and all of the many 3rd party applications that I was browsing through are all geared to the tag and there weren't a lot of tools that allowed you to search and get information based on links. I went through a couple different lists of Delicious tools and was surprised at how many were broken since the articles were written.

The best way to find out who is linking to you in Delicious is through their url search function. I've just made it easy to access here:

Unfortunately there isn't a wildcard option that I could find for Delicious so I had to fall back on using Google:

This gives you information what Delicious users are tracking, but it's also useful to look for what folks are blogging about. So I decided to pull in Google's Blog Search to find out what folks in the blogosphere are talking about:

The one 3rd party Delicious application that I thought was also useful for finding more relations that people have made in Delicious is Similicious which provides some interesting sites that are related (via Delicious tags) to the link you provide.

These are just a few options. Please feel free to contribute others you've found useful.