Honestly, I am not a fan of tools that measure your reach or popularity but with social and authority becoming more of a factor, it can’t hurt to try to measure yourself up.

Mark Traphagen shared on Google+ that he created Virante AuthorRank. What is it?

You can try it at beta.authorrank.org.

Here is what mine looks like:

Compare me to Danny Sullivan who has way more followers:

Mark himself:

Matt Cutts is broken:

Forum discussion at Google+.