What is the best blog commenting software?

[crankit98]

I want to try blog commenting as another way of getting targeted traffic. I'm now using PPC with Yahoo Search and I'm doubling my investment in about 6-8 days.

PPC is paying off so now if I can just targeted traffic other than PPC, I'll be in better shape. Have anyone had experience with blog commenting software and what are good ebooks explaining how to blog comment without spamming?

Thanks in advance for your ideas

[marck_don]

Well if I had the money I'd spend it. My niche is video games right now, and even at $2/day, yesterday I received like 7 clicks on it. I'm not sure how I got that many, because they only estimated I might get 1 click a day. I'm only working part-time at the moment and until I make a good sale, I'll have to stick with this limited budge I've been trying to blog comment and writing ezine articles to help, and it does, at least with traffic. I dunno how the other guys here seem to manage to make money just by writing articles I'm hoping someday soon I can do the same..

[Angela Wills]

I would say to blog comment without spamming you would actually need to read the post and reply, not use software. I am so annoyed with all the comments on my blog saying stuff like:

"great blog"
"you make an excellent point"
"I found you on digg"
"I'll bookmark you and be back for sure"
"this is the best article on this topic"

They all get deleted.

To have a valid comment on just about any reputable blog you need to READ the blog post you are commenting on and then post a USEFUL comment in reply to that exact post. Otherwise you're a spammer.

[crankit98]

Point well taken. Maybe I should ask this question. Instead of blog commenting software,
is there an execellent blog finding software? I know I can just google blog finding software or blogs and my niche.

[CindyBrock]

As a blogger for myself and others, I can tell you that software is going to actually hurt the process. Here's why:

Let's say you find a software and it directs you to 10 blogs that match your niche. What is the QUALITY of the other posts? Are they stupid, non-useful, riddled with sales speak, and/or simply of no value? If so, you'll have to cross that blog off your list.

The trick with blogging is finding blogs that have readers who meet your TARGET buyer/client. For example, if I'm selling an ebook about gardening, the software (or searching on Google) might point me to several blogs for landscapers. Yes: these blogs are somewhat in the same niche, but landscapers are not my intended target buyer/client. So, while the software did it's job, in reality it didn't do it's job! Make sense?

More and more blogs are being moderated. In fact, I posted on a blog this morning and 1/2 of my post (the part that was sales related) was deleted by the moderator. The reason he didn't nix my post completely was because I asked a question that others also had. (I was able to get my web site url in the blog via my guest post name.)

When I first come up with my blogging web site list for a client and start blogging, about 10% of the sites are axed during the first visit. The next 25% usually fall off within 2 weeks. Then, over the next 30-60-90 days, one or two may drop off as well. I drop them because I simply don't see the results. (You track your results via Google Analytics.) For every 1 blog I lose, I usually generally come across 1-4 others that are better. Thus, those those get added to the list and my blogging list grows and changes (just as everything else in the online world does).

My best advice: never post on a blog that you would not read on a regular basis!

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[Suzi]

I have been having a very frustrating time recently in that when I have found good blogs to comment on, and I read all through the comments, given a thoughtful comment myself and then pressed 'submit' - the comment has just disappeared into nowhere. On the odd occasion it seems this means it has been sent into moderation, and it later appears, but more often than not it disappears completely.

But a few days ago I decided to try using something called 'Comment Kahuna' which is a free blog finding software. This is something that can obviously be abused as it also allows you to set up one comment that could be submitted to many blogs, but I certainly don't use it this way.

From the blogs it finds in my niche, perhaps only 1 out of 5 is the right kind of blog for me, but what I have found a great joy so far, is that every one of them I have taken the time to comment on, has seen the comment posted immediately. And that is so much more satisfying than what was happening previously.

I wouldn't suggest that this should be the ONLY way to find blogs, but I think it can be a useful tool to use among other methods.

Suzi

[MikeF421]

Scrapebox is easily the best one out there. It's got a bit of a learning curve to it, but it's a pretty powerful piece of software.

Comment Kahuna is really good if you are looking to be less spammy. It can be set to autopost, but it also can just find the blogs for you and you can manually post to them. It also has the feature to sort the blogs it finds by PageRank, so you can target higher PR sites.

I have a feeling we are not too far off from seeing the day when Google completely discounts links in blog comments.

[Engage]

I have a feeling we are not too far off from seeing the day when Google completely discounts links in blog comments.

Gotta agree. Hasn't that pretty much already happened, given that almost all blogs use the nofollow tag in their comment section?

I see a new opportunity now.

1) Turn off the nofollow tag.

2) Make sure all your readers know that.

3) Receive many more comments.

4) Ruthlessly moderate the comments so that only the cream of the crop survive.

Carrot and stick. If a reader can add quality content, they should be rewarded. If they can't add quality content, they should be ignored.

Yea, it's work, but so is writing all the content on our sites ourselves.

[cindybidar]

1) Turn off the nofollow tag.

2) Make sure all your readers know that.

3) Receive many more comments.

4) Ruthlessly moderate the comments so that only the cream of the crop survive.

Carrot and stick. If a reader can add quality content, they should be rewarded. If they can't add quality content, they should be ignored.

Yea, it's work, but so is writing all the content on our sites ourselves.

That's exactly what I do on my niche blogs, but it gets harder and harder to tell the good from the spam. Especially when you have lots of comments on lots of posts - spammers now are simply copying and pasting older comments that were approved. Unless you have a fantastic memory, it can be tough to spot these copycats.

[Engage]

Thanks for your input Cindy.


That's exactly what I do on my niche blogs, but it gets harder and harder to tell the good from the spam.

Well, does the comment add something useful to the article, or not? If we focus on that, then the question of who is or isn't a spammer seems moot.

To me, the larger problem is lazy comments. People who want to say something, but don't actually have anything to say. On blogs about publishing anyway, it seems the standards should be higher. More like a mini guest article.

[TrishL]

I use a combination of Matthew's Google search method AND a few LinkedIn groups I belong to that focus around either my geographic location (a big part of my business exists off-line) and/or my key focus areas.

Also, the easiest thing you can do to get your comments approved (IMO) is include the blogger's name and 1 key point from the post itself.

Addressing someone by name and actually making a valid point? Priceless!

PS I've also struggled with the "poof, my brilliant (read: lengthy) comment just disappeared!" thing - thanks to the wonderful Denise O'Berry... I now copy EVERYTHING before I hit 'submit' - that way I can try one more time. If it happens again, I figure the issue is with their spam blocker software - and I move along...

[stevetorres]

Blog Comment Demon is one such software. The trick is to avoid spamming, and type in the comment manually. If it is approved by the moderator, it will increase link credibility.

[josaphlewis]

Blog commenting is a very useful form of marketing and works great for achieving .edu and .gov links, getting these links you can get stable constant traffic to your eBook download page as well. i need the paid version of Fast Blog Finder.:)

[nickelodon007]

Generally i don't like using software for blog commenting i like doing it on my own, but my personal favorite one is Scrapbox.

[adamtaylor]

I have to agree that these days the only way the moderator will allow your comment and link, is if you contribute to the blog post. Automated commenting software just won't do the trick. Don't go and spend money, rather just spend so me time everyday commenting on a few blogs yourself.

[MikeF421]

Don't go and spend money, rather just spend so me time everyday commenting on a few blogs yourself.

I guess it depends on how valuable your time is to you. For me, my time is too valuable not to spend a few bucks. It also would depend on how many sites you are working on. If you have one site, sure do it manually. If you have 50, forget it.

Scrapebox is a godsend. Not to mention it does so much more than just commenting. You combine it with a couple of other tools, and you have a pretty powerful SEO combination.

[towergem]

I think it is very likely your comment created by software would be deleted because it is not related to blog's content