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Back Links: Comment Kahuna v.s. Real Link Finder
By Todd Alan | March 19, 2008
When it comes to building back links through blog commenting the right free tools can save you an enormous amount of time. In my previous post, Build Back Links Fast With Comment Kahuna, I talked about the benefits of being able to quickly find blogs, based on specific keywords, that do not use the nofollow tag which prevents your comment back link from receiving the all important Google Juice. Since that post I’ve been playing with another similar, and in my opinion superior, tool called the Real Link Finder by Neil Shearing.
On the surface the two tools seem to have a similar feature set. The one advantage Comment Kahuna offers is that it allows you to filter your blog search based on Page Rank (PR), which is strangely missing from Real Link Finder. Having said that, I’m not too sure how accurate Comment Kahuna is with it’s filter since I did find a few blogs that seemed to show a different PR than what Comment Kahuna seemed to indicate.
The Real Link Finder has one feature that’s very nice which is missing from Comment Kahuna and that’s the ability to filter the blog posts it searches based on the number of comments for the post. The advantage to this will become clear after you’ve submitted the first comment to a number of blogs only to never see them get accepted because the moderator is an absent landlord. By targeting blogs with existing comments you’re more likely to find blogs that are maintained by the author and therefore more likely to get past the moderation.
Lastly, for whatever reason, the Real Link Finder just seems to return better quality blog posts from its search. Now let me qualify that because it’s really based on my experience and nothing more. Basically the posts returned from Real Link Finder seem to be on topic and accepting of my comments more often than those from Comment Kahuna. I almost feel weird reporting this because I’m not sure I understand why, but based on submitting comments to a dozen or so posts from each tool, I’ve have about 75% acceptance rate from those from Real Link Finder as opposed to only about 40% from Comment Kahuna.
Perhaps this is due to the Real Link Finder’s use of filtering the search for existing post comments and thus avoiding “dead” blog posts, or perhaps there is some other underlying difference in the search mechanism. I don’t know. All I can tell you is this has been my experience so far.
I’m sure I could improve the results from Comment Kahuna by simply providing some additional human filtering on the blog post search results before I submit comments, but out of the box Real Link Finder does what I want.
Well maybe not everything I want …
Real Link Finder Wish List
- Add the ability to filter based on PR
- Add the ability to filter based on the date of the blog post
- Add the ability to filter based on the date of the last post comment
- Produce an html file with the blog posts links that were submitted to so you can easily check the submissions (this is another nice feature of Comment Kahuna)
All in all, when it comes to results my experience has been better with the Real Link Finder.
Just remember, regardless of which tool you use, your comment must make a valuable contribution to the blog post in question if you want to have it accepted by the blog author. If you’re simply spamming the blog comments then you’re not going to have much success in your back link campaign and your tool of choice is irrelevant.
cheers,
todd alan
Topics: Productivity, SEO, blogging, link building, web traffic |
Hey Todd, have you given Neil your wish list? He gladly accepts feedback for future software updates
Hey Dennis, thanks for the comment. I haven’t done that but it’s a great idea so I’m on it. Thanks for the suggestion.
cheers
Hey Todd. Thanks for the Real Link Finder recommendation. I downloaded it and started using it. I’m a newby at all this. Is there a strategy for posting your link on message boards? For instance, when I type a comment, do I type in my URL in the comment field after I make a comment, or does Google give me credit for just posting a comment and counts the hyperlink in my name? I hope I made sense.
Thanks for the great info
Hey John, you might want to look at the comment Kahuna tool as well. I recently reviewed the newest version of Comment Kahuna and have decided it’s now a better tool. What can I say? Things change
Regarding leaving comments on blogs or forums (message boards) …
first I recommend caution on message boards because these people can smell a marketing pitch a mile away.
With blog comments if you put your link as the “website” field it will show up as your link for your name ant his is all you need to do for google to give you credit.
If other people are leaving links in comment bodies and it seems acceptable on that particular blog then by all means go ahead and do it as it’s certainly more eye catching than the name link.
but for google purposes the name link is enough.
cheers,
t