Comment Hut VS Comment Kahuna
About 2 weeks ago, I picked up Comment Hut from Paul Forcey, the software developer for Comment Hut as well as a friend I got to know from NicheRockets forum.
Paul was the brain behind many excellent online marketing tools like Blogger Wizard, Widget Secrets, Hubpages Explained, Squid Hub Searcher and Keyword Manipulator. Frankly, I am quite a fan of his products and own quite a number of these.
That said, I am still going to put his tool Comment Hut to the test. At the same time, I am also trying out Comment Kahuna, another product from Jason Potash.
Both software are meant to track down blogs for you to comment on. In terms of features wise, the two tools have a built in feature that allows you to find blogs according to specific keywords and Page Rank.
I tested out both software.
Comment Hut – How It Works
With the Comment Hut (full version), it allows me to find blogs using 7 content management systems or rather platforms like:
1. Wordpress
2. Wordpress.com
3. Drupal
4. LiveJournal
5. Typepad
6. Squidoo
7. Hubpages
Simply enter your keyword and Comment Hut goes hunting down relevant blogs to the keyword. I do observe that the url of each blog post contains the keyword and from the different blog posts I found, the results are laser-targeted to the target keyword.
For each search, I can easily find 100s of such relevant blogs. I decided I have no time to post on every single blog and hence use the PageRank filtering feature of Comment Hut to remove those low PR blogs. The entire process was fast and took me no more than 10 minutes to compile a list of 511 blog posts of PR above 3.
I chose PR 3 because it would seem suspicious to the search engines to only have backlinks coming from PR 7 or 8 blog posts. It is better to cast your “linking” net wide. Also, there are much fewer PR 7 posts around.
All I did was simply to go to each blog post, browse through and make a helpful comment and I have a backlink completely FREE! Very quickly, I managed to get dozens of quality backlinks to my site, transferring PR love to me.
Some of these blogs that I posted to have the “No Follow” tags but many don’t. And in any case, from observations and what users have reported, Yahoo, MSN and the smaller search engines seem to be ignoring the “No Follow” tags. A quick look at the AWStats revealed that the spiders have visited the pages shortly after posting.
Like what I mentioned in my previous posts, spending one or two minutes posting on a blog post that enjoys good traffic can bring in a constant stream of traffic for a long time. Plus, Yahoo, MSN and smaller search engine spiders are following the links anyway. So the impact of the “No Follow” tag seems to be rather exaggerated.
Comment Kahuna – How It Works
Comment Kahuna works somewhat similar to Comment Hut. Simply enter a keyword and it will go searching for blogs related to the target keyword. Notice here that I said “related” and not “relevant”.
The reason why I said that is because, out of the 50 blog posts I found, many are the category pages of the main WordPress.com for related keywords, and not totally relevant as what I hoped for.
Let me explain it clearer. Say the keyword I searched for is “affiliate marketing”, they will return results like:
http://wordpress.com/tags/affiliate-marketing, http://wordpress.com/tags/internet-marketing, http://wordpress.com/tags/make-money-online
Now, not that this is no good, but the blog posts I found do not seem to be completely relevant and specific to the keyword I have targeted. If I target “web traffic” as my keyword, obviously I want to write my comments in a blog post around this topic. So giving a result showing a blog post tagged “make money online” seems to be out of sync.
My conclusion is that Comment Kahuna is useful if you are looking for blog posts that are centered around generalized topics, and not if you are looking for specific narrow niche topics.
But one feature I like about Comment Kahuna is its ability to sieve out the blogs with “No Follow” tag. Another useful feature is its profile creation and storing. If you wish, you can create a profile for each website you are promoting. When you get to each blog post, the software will auto-populate your name, email address and website link for you. So all you need is to comment.
You can also save your project halfway and come back again to continue later.
Comment Hut VS Comment Kahuna
Comment Hut is definitely a more powerful workhorse in terms of finding relevant blog posts to comment on. It can easily track down 100s of blog posts compared to the scaled-down 10s that Comment Kahuna can manage. The search results are also more relevant and targeted using Comment Hut.
But in terms of pricing, Comment Kahuna is free, but the full version of Comment Hut costs you $97. There is a Comment Hut Lite version which is free as well. This tool allows you to find WordPress blogs only rather than the 7 platforms that the full version is capable of searching.
Comment Kahuna has a slight edge over Comment Hut in terms of its ability to auto-populate the blog posts with your profile details. I have been bugging Paul to come up with this feature to match Comment Kahuna.
And I am pleased to inform that a companion tool is in the making. And it will be free for existing users of Comment Hut. Cool!
On the overall, Comment Hut earns a well-deserved 8/10 as a blog comment posting tool for its powerful search engine and accuracy. While it does not come with a comment posting feature at the moment unlike Comment Kahuna, such a feature will be added very soon. Comment Kahuna comes in with a 7/10 score since it is free and useful in tracking down blogs without “No Follow”.
Happy Blog Comment Posting!
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23 Responses to “Comment Hut VS Comment Kahuna”
By Scott on Feb 13, 2008 | Reply
Hey I like this post you got here. I will definitely be giving Comment Hut a test. I’ve been recently posting into a lot more blogs and this software should help me get going.
-Scott
By alchemygaming on Feb 13, 2008 | Reply
Hi,
Thanks for the report, great info. I have started to use a similar program fast blog finder. it seems to work ok too.
I will have to wait and see how it goes for my sites, but that will come in time i take it.
steve
By Geoff Dodd - Australia on Feb 26, 2008 | Reply
Thanks Davion. I have both Comment Hut and ‘Kahuna’ and have been using the auto-fill feature of Kahuna. I didn’t realize that the Hut has a more accurate search function with better relevancy. Thanks again Dav. Geoff in Australia.
By Davion on Feb 29, 2008 | Reply
You are welcome Geoff! I am quite certain that you will love Comment Hut. It gives far more accurate and relevant results as well as a larger pool of blogs to post to. I own the pro version which gives me much more traffic from the postings in other CMS platforms like Squidoo and HubPages.
By alchemygaming on Feb 29, 2008 | Reply
Hi,
hey Davion do you get good traffic commenting on squidoo and hubpages?
steve
By Davion on Feb 29, 2008 | Reply
Hi Steve,
There are a few benefits in commenting on Squidoo and HubPages.
1. Commenting on a Squidoo lens or HubPage that is already ranked in the search engines for their targeted keywords gets you very targeted traffic. This is similar to EzineArticles.
2. They are good for backlinks as well! Spreading your link building will make it natural, and score better with the serps.
Like what I mentioned, the key in getting more traffic is in commenting on a page that is ranked well. If it is not, then it is done purely for linking purposes.
By Andrew on Mar 13, 2008 | Reply
I have not used Comment Hut but I do use Comment Kahuna. Not because it was free but because it was what I wanted.
Whilst it ain’t perfect at sorting out ‘Do Follow’ blogs it is a good help but the range of these sites is lower if on eis being too strict on the nicheing so for me the slightly broader targeting in conjunction with the Do Follow searches is a good match. I think this is a matter of how one works rather than better or worse.
Thanks for the comparison!
Andrew.
By Sara on May 10, 2008 | Reply
Davion,
Your review was just what I needed. I have been trying out Comment Kahuna this week and hadn’t been too pleased. I noticed, just like you did, that many of the posts coming up in the search weren’t very targeted.
I was going to continue to test it out, but it sounds like kind of a waste of time. I am going to go get my hands on a copy of Comment Hut. Thanks for saving me some time. =)
Thanks,
Sara
By edwin on May 22, 2008 | Reply
I am definally gone try out both, as we all know are no-follow comments, besides gaining a technorati point, mostly useless, so i’m curious about comment kahuna..
By Dota God on May 28, 2008 | Reply
why dont one just search wordpress.com tags instead of using these tools .. it will be much simpler ..
btw .. wordpress.com gives no follow links in comments as well as recent comments widget
By Danny Proven on Jun 22, 2008 | Reply
Great article for which my thanks. I’m torn between the two. Although you’re article was written in Feb and its now June there is still no sign of the companion tool for Hut but I do find there results better. I think once the companion tool comes out I might be persuaded to part with $97 : )
By Matt (windows xp embedded) on Jul 2, 2008 | Reply
I’ve just downloaded kahuna after the video convinced me. Im still a bit sceptical about whether this is “good practice” but ill give it a go and let you know whether the results are good. One thing i find with blogs though is that some of my clients are too niche to even find one post!
By kl2u on Jul 10, 2008 | Reply
I test the comment hut few days…not bad at all. It easy to use. But I’m tried yet the comment kahuna. I was thinking to buy the full version of comment hut. Hopefully I get my backlink better.
By Make Money Online on Jul 16, 2008 | Reply
Nice post, its a really cool resell rights blog that you have here, keep up the good work
By Legal Aid on Aug 1, 2008 | Reply
Comment Hut would be much better if they would capitulate and add a “Do-Follow” attribute filter. All the evidence is out and has been that No-Follow posts have about 1/10 the Back Link persuasion and PR boost that the “Do-Follow” link has.
Who cares about MSN and Yahoo?
I get very little traffic from them, and I have page one ranking with several sites on both of those search engines. I get nearly 10 times the traffic on a page ranked page one on Google.
The Guys over at Comment Hut feed that lame info about No-Follow and Do-Follow, everywhere, even on the Warrior forum. Give me a break.
That being said, I do like the concept, and the software is great at finding what you want - but don’t try to send me a smoke screen at a clear weakness in the software. Just fix it and be the best out there!
Nuff said!
By Bincom ICT Solutions on Aug 2, 2008 | Reply
thanks for this review. I was wondering which one of the 2 softwares to use but i guess you ld done all the work for me. Thanks.
By Gimme4Free.net on Aug 6, 2008 | Reply
Ive heard a lot about CommentHut but never Kahuna, will have to give it a try.
Thanks
By J.R. Jackson on Aug 19, 2008 | Reply
Thanks Davion for the review of these two products.
I’ve been looking into both of these for the last few days.
J.R. Jackson (a.k.a. MLM’s $8-Million Man)
http://www.JRJackson.com
By Ultimate Content Creator on Aug 24, 2008 | Reply
Has anyone compared these 2 with Glock’s software ?
I like this one because it highlights all the do-follow links, so you can just post to them only if you want. He only thing is, Comment Hut has more platforms it looks through to find relevant blogs, including live journal. Glock only does Drupal and Word Press Blogs.
By Torben on Aug 25, 2008 | Reply
You have to be a bit creative to get the same relevancy of blogs in CommentKahuna like Comment Hut does it already from the start.
Since Commentkahuna uses a simple Google Search to find the blogs, you can use the usual search tags. For example, you are looking for affiliate marketing. To get VERY relevant results put this phrase in the “Enter Keyword phrase”-field:
“affiliate marketing” inurl:affiliate -tag -tags -”logged in”
^So what does this phrase do? First of we tell it to only find posts that have the EXACT PHRASE “affiliate marketing” in them. Secondly the URL must also containt he word “affiliate”. We also say: exclude sites that have the word “tag” or “tags” in them, this way we avoid the Wordpress Tag-Index and Tag-Clouds. And last but not least with the
-”logged in” we exclude posts that require you to login to be able to post a comment.
VOILA, there you have HYPER-relevant results also in CommentKahuna (actually so HYPER that there are only a few blogs to be found:):) + You can now use the advanced features CommentKahuna has over Comment Hut (semi-auto-filling of the forms, saving the process, filtering out NoFollow blogs, and so on).
Knowledge is power guys:)
By Jayson on Aug 29, 2008 | Reply
Good review. I have a question though - are you sure these products don’t have adware or spyware?
By Beauty Salon Equipment on Sep 5, 2008 | Reply
I had a problem with comment kahuna, when I searched for Beauty Salon Equipment , many of the results listed weren’t blogs at all!?
Also, there was a problem with comment hut - I never got the email with the ‘lite’ version download link.
These two products look great and I’m just wondering if I’m doing something wrong?
By Lizzy on Sep 15, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for comparing the 2, makes it easier for which one to go for.