<!–wpads#insidepost-square-left–> Okay so I’ve been flooded with emails (well, two actually) asking me about the program Comment Hut that I talked about in this post about SEO Warfare and how to get more backlinks. I realized that I should explain in slightly more detail how exactly to use Comment Hut, and then I started thinking about how to best use all the links you can create with Comment Hut.
If you read SEO Warfare 1, 2, and 3 and (probably most relevant) Don’t Waste Backlinks, then you’ll know why I am telling you to do parts 5 and 6 below. If you haven’t read those posts, they’ll spell it all out. In this post, I’m going to explain how I use Comment Hut software to get backlinks for my sites.
So to quote Han Solo, here goes nothin’. I’m gonna explain it in more detail.
HOW TO GET LINKS FROM BLOGS USING COMMENT HUT
1. Download Comment Hut. This is a great program for getting quality backlinks. The free version (they call it “Comment Hut Lite”) is very useful even though it limits you to ten results from a search. But getting ten free targeted links to your site is worth a download. If you try it out and you like it like me (I use it every day), get the full version. It gives you unlimited search results and pulls results from Squidoo, Hubpages, Drupal, TypePad, and a couple other types of sites as well. (If you do get the full version, I appreciate you using my affiliate link above and hope the positive karma returns to you.)
2. Install and start Comment Hut. Duh.
3. Enter your desired target term. If you have a website about the Nintendo Wii, then type in “Nintendo Wii”. You want to seek out content that relates to your site so that when you get your link (from that site), it’s relevant. Comment Hut will find all the sites that have posts about the Nintendo Wii. While it’s getting the results, go do something like have a cup of coffee or help get a kitten out of a tree or write a letter to the Ethiopian kid you support or whatever. When you return to your computer, you’ll see the Comment Hut screen full of search results from all kinds of blogs. These will all be posts about your target term.
(You can tell it you want to find out the PageRank as well, but personally I don’t care about the PR of a site. I just go down the list and, well…read on.)
3. Enter comments. Double-click on one of the results. It will open that blog post in your browser. Read over the post, and then click the “leave a comment” link. Put your name, your email, and see where it has a spot for “URL”? Put your website address there. Now, time to leave your comment. Don’t post meaningless garbage, like “Good post!”. The blog owner will just delete your comment. (Don’t post meaningless garbage like “Pumpkin rabbit marshmallow!” either. That would be weird, and they’ll also delete your comment.) Post something like, “I never knew how much the Wii could change my life. After reading your post, I too am inspired to lose 378 pounds by playing the Wii boxing game for eight hours a day, every day. Great post!” and the blog owner will read it and comment back and everyone will be happy. And the link to your site will stay put.
[Note: Comment Hut isn't a spam program. All it does is find relevant posts. It doesn't post anything for you. You have to type the posts. If you post spam, that's up to you - and if you make meaningful comments that's up to you too.]
4. Make a list of your commented blog posts. After you enter a comment and you see it on the page, do a CTRL-C to copy the URL and paste it into a text document. You’re gonna need to keep a list of all the post URLs where you entered comments for the next step. This is for a super-secret project that I’m about to ONLY YOU. (Yes, you sitting at that computer. Why aren’t you wearing pants?) I want you to make ONE URL per line, okay? Serious.
5. Use my Keyword Linker Tool. (No, I didn’t say “Use my keyword linker, tool.” I would never call you a tool.) This is what you’re gonna use to make your Comment Hut-entered comments really pay off! It’s a script I will keep hosted here for you to use for free – and if you do any SEO type stuff at all, you’ll find uses for it…First, you need to “enhance” the URL list you just made, but putting some keywords or phrases next to the URLs. So for example:
http://nintendowiisite.com
Would get some relevant keywords added next to it, like:
http://nintendowiisite.com Nintendo Wii Boxing Strategies Guide Game
Just enter some typical relevant keywords (maybe three to five) – it doesn’t matter if they make sense to a human, either. Just make them things Google would enjoy. After you do this to all of the URLs, copy the entire list (with their keywords) and go to here: Keyword Linker Tool. See the big empty text area? Paste your keyword-and-URL list in there and click the button. WHAMMO! You get a bunch of HTML. But this HTML turns plain ol’…
http://nintendowiisite.com Nintendo Wii Boxing Strategies Guide Game
into
Nintendo Wii Boxing Strategies Guide Game
Now do you see where I’m going with this? The HTML that was automagically generated with some PHP (and a tasty little bit of regex sprinkled in) makes all those keywords turn into anchor text for all those blog post URLs. And now that your link is in each of those blog posts, we want those URLs to get indexed because they’re our friends now. So what do we do? #6.
6. Make a webpage with your new HTML. Lots you can do here. You can just make the most simple web page in any text editor and upload it to your site, and submit that web page address to Google, Microsoft Live, etc. if you want. Or, you can get free hosting accounts (like maybe a Blogger blog, a Hubpage, a hosted Wordpress blog, etc.) and paste your HTML to a page there. OR, you can even ask me, and I will put your links page on one of my sites and make the search engine spiders come get it. All I ask is a link to one of my sites in return. (This is best; I don’t submit it to the search engines but my sites get spidered constantly. When the search engines find links or content on their own, they tend to be ranked better and get indexed faster.)
Whew. Okay, I think I explained the proper use of Comment Hut and how to REALLY benefit from all the links it will help you to get to your site.
If you make a bunch of relevant comments across a bunch of different blogs, you’ll soon see that the varied “locations” of your comments coupled with the highly specific target of the topics in those commented posts will make a huge difference in how well, how often, and how deep your site is spidered and indexed by the search engines. All this comes together to eventually gain your site a better ranking and better traffic.
Happy linking…
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