Comment Hut VS Comment Kahuna
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008About 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!
