When I go to check some of these things out for homework assignements I always look at my Alexa toolbar and my Google pagerank buttons to see how well the site is doing. Some sites talk a good game but when you look closely they are newbies on the web... or just ignored by the world.
Also I wanted to let you all know that we are doing really well improving our sites ranking. ... not that we can take all the credit for it
But it is so cool to see that we are creeping up and up getting closer to the Big E (which is suffering dogfights and street riots due to bad SEO ).
Good stuff... Off to bed