I'll also keep an eye on link counts on Technorati, subscriber counts on Bloglines, and use Google Analytics for the visitor count. (slaw.ca)
In the October 2011 version of their paper entitled «Event Driven Trading and the «New News»», David Leinweber and Jacob Sisk examine the trading acumen of a model (set of filters) trained to exploit Thomson Reuters News Analytics metadata (sentiment tone, stock relevance and novelty as measured by link counts). (cxoadvisory.com)
Indeed — there may be some merit in using Majestic's Trust Flow score to create a dollar value as to how much you might bid or pay for advertising on any given page or site, as it is more qualitative that just visitor counts, link counts or referring domain counts alone. (toprankblog.com)