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Comment Hut Review

08. Jan 2007 | 7 Comments

The guys over at Comment hut were kind enough to let me try out the software over the past 10 days. So I thought it would be nice to let them know what I think of it & also let you guys know if it’s worth the money or not.

At this time it’s hard for me to tell how effective the linking is however I can report that:

  1. One of my site has moved from position 5 to position 2 for the keyword I was targeting (After 1 Round of Comment hut)
  2. My other site has moved from Position 13 to Position 6 for the keyword I was targeting.
  3. One site has emerged from a -100 penalty that it’s had for the last 3 months.
  4. One blog went from all supplemental to 30% Supplemental.

I can’t attribute the findings above to Comment hut 100%, I’m just giving you an idea of what I’ve noticed in the short period of time I’ve tried it. This could be due to general fluctuations or data pushes.

Also there’s the added bonus of Spiders indexing your newer sites much quicker & also Page Rank. I can’t really gauge if it’s had any effect on Page Rank but I can tell you that I’ve managed to get a brand new site fully indexed in 3 days (58 pages) with just comments (however I’m not sure how this looks in terms of trust in the eyes of Google).
I’ll give you a quick run down of what the software does:

It trawls the internet & looks for blogs that are relevant to your particular keyword. It looks at a number of different platforms:

  1. Wordpress
  2. Wordpress.com
  3. Drupal
  4. Live Journal
  5. Typepad

It then sorts all the results in order of Page Rank. You can then visit the pages & leave comments that include your URL. If the page has a nofollow active on it may mean it’s useless to Google. But Yahoo & MSN still count it as a link. You’ll find many blogs that don’t use nofollow. I was able to find a PR7 & 2 PR6’s with a scan of one keyword.

Comment Hut

I found the software easy to use & effective. Not cluttered with useless features. It gets straight to the point & does exactly what you want or need it to do. It does take about 30mins+ to collect data from ALL the sources, however for one keyword you may have over 150+ PR4+ blogs to feast on.

There are however a number of features I’d like to see in the future:

  1. The ability to check blogs for the rel=nofollow tag & filter them accordingly
  2. Check blogger.com blogs also
  3. I found that many of the blogs weren’t relevant to the keyword, they keyword only appeared in the body text. I’d like to see more relevant results with the keyword included in the title
  4. A mass delete function. Currently you can only delete all the results once you’ve exported to file.
  5. More accurate results, sometimes it brings up categories instead of actual posts (which you can’t obviously post to).
  6. I’m interested to know where it scrapes the results from, if so it’d be good to see it pull from different sources like Google Blog Search & Technorati.
  7. Auto Commenting, although I quite like making my comments very personal to the blog & the topic.

Comment hut is a good tool for a number of reasons:

  1. You can deep link to pages with any anchor text you want.
  2. You can use it to Boost PR so you can sell text links.
  3. It can be a good networking tool to find blogs relevant to yours.
  4. Can help new sites get spidered quickly & build up initial trust.

If you want to check Comment hut out they do a trial version that’s limited to Wordpress Blogs only. Would definately be an even more awesome tool if they managed to incorporate the features I talked about above.

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7 Comments on "Comment Hut Review"

Stewart Alexander 08. Jan 2007, 11:21 pm

Thanks for the update Stuart, you make some good suggestions, that I will pass on to Paul.

It will be interesting to see the results over a longer period of time.

Paul does have a tool that takes care of gaining backlinks from Blogger. It’s one of Paul’s first tools if I’m correct (he’ll let me know if I’m not believe me)…

It’s called Blogger Wizard
http://www.bloggerwizard.com

Very similar to Comment hut but built just for Blogger blogs backlinks.

Thanks again for the initial feedback and we’ll talk soon.

Stewart

Not Brian Anymore 09. Jan 2007, 1:49 am

Guys, as far as I know all three major search engines respect the nofollow tag. If I were you I wouldn’t waste my time on blogs that use no follow. Does this tool tell you right away whether a blog uses the tag or do you have to go look at the source code yourself? If not, that would be a good feature to ad.

Keep your comments useful please. Here I am doing the same thing you’re talking about doing (getting a link to my site from a blog that doesn’t use the no follow tag) but I am providing some constructive feedback. I’m not saying everyone should be goody goody whitehat. But just try and have a tiny bit of respect, please…

“Paul told me that Google is planning on announcing support for a tag on individual a href links. Any link with this tag will indicate to a crawler it is not necessarily approved by this page and shouldn’t be followed nor contribute weight for ranking. Our Search Champs suggested this and it has been a part of our plans since, we think it’s a great idea.

I quickly circulated this around our hallway and also to the MSN Spaces team – and we got quick agreement from both teams. Over the coming weeks, our MSNBot crawler will start respecting this new tag, and sometime after that MSN Spaces will start to support this as well (I expect Mike Torres and MC will have more details – the team has already made investments to help prevent blog spam to begin with). Cheers to Yahoo! and Six Apart for also supporting this movement.

Ken Moss
General Manager, MSN Search Dev & Test

Published Tuesday, January 18, 2005 7:34 PM by msnsearch”

work from home 11. Jan 2007, 8:43 pm

Well just afraid to use any thing for the moment with all the changes taking place at go daddy.
and normaly you only need one relevant link.
well might well try.

Paul Forcey 15. Jan 2007, 4:29 am

Hi there

Thought I would poke my head in and answer some of your suggestions
..

1. I don’t honestly know how feasible this is, we are going to be looking at it when my programmer returns from his new year holiday.

2. As Stewart said I do already have a tool that searches Blogger blogs, http://www.bloggerwizard.com. It isn’t something that we can integrate, Blogger wizard allows you to look for blogs that don’t have captchas and aren’t managed in anyway. There is a video on the sales page which shows more detail.
I am going to be running a special on this for Comment hut owners this week hopefully.

3. the blogs returned are the ones that are considered relevant by google.

4.Mass delete - just right click on one of the blog urls, select all and delete. You can do this before you export the info.

5. hmmm.. never seen that one, I will add it to the white board to look at.

6. It searches Google, we won’t be adding technorati as they have a habit of throwing cease and desist letters at programmers who mess with them.

7. We won’t be adding auto commenting as a feature, Comment hut is not a SPAM tool and I don’t want it to become one.

I am making some more videos showing people how you could use Roboform and macros to speed up the commenting process and we are kicking around some other ideas for updates.. so keep a eye out for more from Comment hut.

Paul Forcey

Alex Goad 31. Jan 2007, 9:37 pm

Hi Stuart,

Do you use this software regularly or was is more of an experiment?

Stuart 31. Jan 2007, 10:33 pm

It was originally an experiment but I use this software regularly now.

If if links are nofollow, spiders will still follow them to index your pages. Just not pass pagerank. So it’s an important tool for me to spider new & relevant sites.

It’s not perfect, but it’s heaps better than similar tools I’ve tried :)

Martin 29. Sep 2007, 6:16 pm

Funktioniert das Tool auch für deutsche Blogs? Funktioniert es überhaupt? Geht das nicht in Richtung Spam.

Gruß Martin

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