I bought Bookmarking Demon a year ago and decided over the weekend to pry open my PayPal account and purchase Blog Comment Demon. It was $47 for the same excellent quality as BMD. I was reluctant to buy BCD so soon after joining The Keyword Academy. I’m not as cavalier about (potentially) spending $80 on IM shit anymore. And I’m still not convinced about the long term viability of The Keyword Academy Course, but that is for another post.
So exactly why did I need/want Blog Comment Demon? Isn’t blog commenting crap? Isn’t it just spamming? Doesn’t smarter people than me say that it simply does not work for Google rankings anymore? Aren’t all blogs “no-follow” anyway? Can’t you just go to Google blog search and find a blog for free?
All good questions. Eff if I know or care about any of them. When I build a niche site I simply want to get links sprayed out there. BMD has been a good way to do it. In many cases when you search for the keyword that I targeted with bookmarking, my bookmark account will show up in the Google listings. That tells me BMD works. Those links count in Google.
As far as blog commenting goes, I concede that those links aren’t very powerful. Not like getting a backlink from a blog post. Probably not as groovy as writing an article for Ezine Articles either. But I am at the point of absolutely hating to write articles for EA. I can do them in about 15 minutes yet I am sick of even thinking about doing them. In fact, I am sick of writing, and building for that matter, niche article sites.
So I choose the easy way out. I use BMD to add my sites to the bookmarking sites and I use BCD to make comments on blogs. So isn’t writing a decent blog comment as much of a suck as writing articles? Same concept right? Not to me.
It takes maybe 1 minute to write a comment on someone’s blog. If you stay on topic most people are thrilled that someone would make a comment on their blog. It’s fast and easy and it’s a heck of a lot more interesting, and perhaps fun, to surf around and visit other people’s sites. In 15 minutes I can have 6-8 backlinks. If I only want to post on “do-follow” sites then BCD provides them to me. If I only want to post on PR2 and above sites it will show that to me as well. It has great organization features and it keeps track of whether my comments are approved or not. And if you want to spam with the same comments then there is an automatic tool to allow you to do that too, though it’s probably not a great idea. It’s not how I use the tool.
I build a lot of franken sites these days because they are easy and Ebay pays. Most reputable link directories will not list my site. Most people will not link to those sites either. But I can get fast and easy back links by blog commenting and bookmarking.
For those building niche sites I would suggest that it is best to spray your links across the web in a variety of methods. Stick with article submissions, link trades and using AMA and/or Unique Article Wizard. That’s cool. But I would suggest that BMD and/or BCD is worthwhile for extra links that are easy to obtain. BCD is $47. Pretty cheap if you do blog commenting and consider your time. I used to use Google blog search and Google Alerts. They both pretty much suck. Both better than nothing, but BCD makes the task much quicker and easier.
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Hey splork,
Firstly, thanks for posting. Everyone seems to have gone quiet lately (whats happened to Griz?) so it was nice to see someone keeping in touch with their readers.
Question though, what does blog comment demon do that free software like fast blog finder or comment kahuna doesn’t? What makes it worth paying for?
I am thinking about BCD as well- is it a similar interface as the new BMD? I have got fast blog finder but the feature of knowing whether your comment was approved may well be worth the $47.
Be interested in seeing your thoughts on the KeyWord Academy – I am starting to think that there is basically so little to making money online that its hard to sustain a membership site on it- selling the dream on the otherhand can go on forever as per the a-listers
I’m curious what your thoughts are on the keyword crash course… course. What makes it lack in longterm viability? Is it the sole reliance on UAW?
Thanks for the lead with BCD, hadn’t heard of it yet.
Hey Ed. Yea Griz is a busy guy. I think he pretty much tries to stick to one post a month in general. Especially when things are busy at his resort.
The free version of FBF is limited and only gives you a couple of Do Follow blogs plus I think it stops at 50 blogs. I tried Comment Kahuna a while back and didn’t care for the interface and the small amount of blogs it would bring back in the search.
BCD finds so many blogs that I have to stop it from dragging them into the project. The nice thing is you set up a project for each keyword you are looking to comment. You go through each and it saves when you commented and gives a check that the comment was submitted. Later you can do a “refresh” and it will verify that the comment was approved. Open up the project and you can continue where you left off. It allows you to sort “Do Follow”, PR and other variables. You can do a blog search then further refine the search with keywords. There are quite a few options like proxy settings to configure if oyu want as well.
You should go check out the videos.
Passive Income. It has the same interface as BMD. That feature you referenced is pretty cool. You simply refresh the project and it will find out if it was approved. It simply checks a little box indicating it was approved.
Keyword Academy. The videos were useful, particularly if you are a beginner. Most of us aren’t. The free keyword report pretty much offers up what I need to know. There was one other thing they use that I’d never heard of in the video for finding the right keyword which was pretty interesting. The rest of the videos were typical.
The thing is I just don’t know where they are going to go from here with the videos. For $33 it just seems like a lot for one webinar. Maybe two I guess. But what else is there to this? Seriously. Find keywords people are searching for, write up some content and post it then get anchored text backlinks. For the last 2 years bouncing from Vic to Court to Griz that has been the grail. I’ve read that tactic for Adsense in multiple ways over the last couple of years but it always comes back to keywords, good content and backlinks. How many ways can there be to flog that? And I’m not interested in squeezing out an extra 3 bucks from a shitty niche website by screwing around with Adsense placement. The only thing I monitor is getting smart priced.
So I’m kinda with you on that. Court and his buddy are good and honorable guys. They help a lot of people. I’m just tired of the same thing over and over.
Online Privateer. Read above. The reliance on UAW doesn’t mean much to me. I find AMA about as useful. They both do the same thing.
BCD is pretty cool. It makes blog commenting easy and organized if you are into that. Some people don’t think much about links from blog commenting. I think they are about as good as any other effort at getting a backlink that you initiate yourself. The best is obviously from an authority site that links to your site because your content is important or helpful. Most of our niche article sites are crap so we have to resort to these dubious tactics. BCD is better than most and at least the comments you leave have to be worthwhile or the owner won’t approve it. That has to be worth something.
I am so glad you tried out BCD and liked it. I have been itching to buy it myself. I do not care for FBF and was hoping someone would try this out first and report about it.
After hearing all the rave reviews on the Keyword Crash Course , I thought I was the only one not sticking with this.
After working on the internet for 3 years now I know what I need to do it is just finding time to do it all.
Oh! I almost got XPS upgraded to XPS 2. I screwed my order up so I have to wait for the bank to straighten out my mess. Man, I seem to screw up more and more these days. Getting old makes you feel like a moron sometimes. Anyway…Hope the upgrade is worth it. I had to wait for my income tax rebate to get it. I am excited to see what the new features are all about.
Thanks again for your input to Blog Comment Demon!
Franken sites? I googled and all I get is crap about that idiot and soon to be Senator Al Franken.
I’d like to figure out a way to make money with ebay’s affiliate program because my adsense earnings are horribly depressing. Perhaps these “franken sites” are up my alley.
Good straight talking as usual, just important to make the comments relevant and not become spam like…here’s a good post on that…
http://christinagleason.com/blog-comment-spam-people-pay-for-this/
franken sites are just mashups. I use Blogger and Ebay Widgets to create a quick site ala BANS but quicker, free and less hassle.
Denise, I really like XSP version 2. There were some that didn’t think the changes were all the great, but I bought the upgrade pretty much the day it was released and have not been disappointed yet.
I could be getting this whole Keyword Crash Course all wrong. I wanted to support their efforts. I thought the initial videos were very good. And it could be that the monthly webinars are simply to die for. I just don’t see what more can be said, and I would want to spend time reading, about building niche sites, month after month after month.
Like I mentioned in my post I got access to a niche building video for signing up through them with HostGator hosting, plus the free Keyword report is outstanding. Couple those with all the posts Griz and Court has made over the years and you’ve pretty much got a plan to make money with Adsense.
Phil, that’s the deal. No spam and everybody wins.
Splork, have you used the bookmarking tool that’s part of PLRPro PGB? How does it compare to BMD?
Favorably. BMD is just more robust. Has more bookmark sites. BMD has a beginner and expert selection. The beginner is much like PGB but without as many sites. The expert gives you the chance to bookmark with varying titles, keywords and descriptions. You can do pinging. Proxy server support. You can “hide” you URLs by adding in RSS feeds to your submissions. Multiple accounts. Keeps tabs on which bookmark site has what and how many accounts. Keeps track of what URLs get submitted to which bookmark site. It won’t post duplicates for instance. Bookmarks multiple URLs.
Just got the $1 silver trial through your link for nichebot. Which subscription do you have for nichebot Splork ?
I have the equivalent of the Silver membership but it was called Nichebot Lite back in early ’07 when I signed up.
Hey I have been looking for reviews on BCD since it came out, I actually bought it since no one seemed to be saying much about it, and I know a refund would be easy.
So far it seems to be very bad at determining if a blog is dofollow, with a ton of false positives. It seems to mark a lot of blogs as dofollow that have no comments or only comments with no links. I hate wasting my time reading a blog post and writing a decent comment just to find out the blog is really nofollow. Also, manually checking to see if the comments are really dofollow is another waste of time. I would rather it only mark sites as dofollow that it was SURE were dofollow, and potentially miss some of them.
I haven’t played with it enough but that’s been my experience so far, have you seen anything like that Splork?
The only thing I’ve noticed is that it sometimes pulls in blogs that I have to register to or that does not have a place to add your link, like you mentioned.
False positives happen and maybe should be expected but the few I checked were fine. If nothing else I like that I have a tool that will search blogs for me to comment on relevant topics and keep that effort organized. I don’t care if some of my comments are no follow. All things being equal I obviously prefer to comment on a do follow site, but if the blog post is on topic, interesting, and the site is relevant and trafficked, I will certainly post on a no follow. It only takes like 30 seconds.
As far as I know, and it’s not a lot, the only thing that no follow effects is Page Rank flow. I guess that is a biggee but that doesn’t mean that Google ignores that link. It’s still a backlink to your site.
Splork and Denise I tend to agree that there is only so much that can be said about niche site development.
On the other hand KWA is paying me to be a member via the affiliate system so its not really an issue for me. They actually solved a problem for me because I had a number of new readers from the SBI Storm who were struggling with the concept of a backlink, never mind a anchored one
An awful lot of people are looking for a way to make money online quick – about 90% of them just want the A-list crap but the last 10% really do want business and TWA is a good place to send them: Vic’s door is shut and Grizz is pretty overwhelming for someone looking for a structured step-by-step (which is what many people want). What I will be curious to see is how long people stay as part of program: my guess is that people will pay the $33 just to have the community though, C&M seem to keen on fostering a feel of accountability within the community – it will be interesting to see how it works out.
Thanks for the comments on BCD – like Denise I have never taken to FBF – even the paid version I found a real pain in the posterior so will be giving this one a go – next month- May is link building month for me!
Thanks for the PGB-BMD comparison. It was very helpful. I just ordered BMD – through your link, of course : )
Thanks Kim. I hope you like it. If you don’t make sure you ask for a refund. I’m not saying you’ll not like it but many people buy stuff and find it’s not what they expected it and don’t ask for refund. It’s an important part of buying stuff these days in IM. Make sure you spend some time with his guide and if you have any questions I’ll be happy to help if I can.
Well, I do have a question (or 2), since you offered : ). I think I’ve got a handle on how it works, and I’m pretty sure it’s better for my needs than PGB. I’m just not sure about the timing and quantity of the submissions. How many sites should I submit at a time, and how many accounts should they be distributed among? I plan to use it only with my Tier 2 sites – is that a good idea or should I use it for my money sites too? Thanks for your help, Splork.
I use it for all my sites.
I create about an account a week.
I think I’ve got it set to distribute 1 to 5% of my sites across all bookmarking sites per run. In preferences. I pick 1 to 2 RSS feeds to post per run. I have it set to post 5 sites at any one time. I keep the spamometer well between very low to high spam. I run the tool a couple of times a week unless I have an opportunity to jump on another IP address, then I might do another run. Say I’m at the YMCA on their wireless or something.
I have no problem “retiring” accounts if feel like they are getting too crowded with my links.
Thanks, that was just what I needed to know.
Hi Splork,
Just a curious question… hope you don’t mind. Are you doing all these IM stuff on a full-time basis or on a part-time basis (i.e. you have a day job)? Or did you start off as part-time before switching to full-time? Coz I was quite amazed that you are able to do so much… while I’m still trying hard to find time to digest and implement the programs and tools that I’ve bought so far…
Another question I’ve is regarding the PGB. Do you think is it better to buy the PGB package itself, or in separate but similar modules like XSitePro+AMA+BCD, etc.? One thing quite attractive for the PGB is the 440 monthly articles. But do you think?
Thanks in advance for your time and advice.
Hi Lynn. I have a full-time job. I have no plans ever to make IM a full-time gig. I would have to bank a lot of cash before that happens. That is possible but not in my plans. I use the money to play and invest. Break this shit down into the basic component. Find a niche. Spend your time finding the right keywords. Write something about it. Post it on a website and get links. Use Hubpages or Squidoo or XSP or WP. Doesn’t matter really. If you get quality links then Google will think your site is the bomb and rank it high. The tools can make your job easier. Just don’t let them be a distraction. Keyword research, write something, post it and get backlinks. How you do it doesn’t matter. And it’s only my opinion, and experience, but of 10 sites you might build 3 might be worth anything. 1 will be a big moneymaker. One that you should keep working for. It may be a waste but I bet 10% of my sites generate 90% of my IM income.
PLRPro’s PGB versus XSP/AMA/BCD/BMD:
PGB is a fantastic tool. Amazing what it can do for the price. If I had no knowledge about XSP/BCD/BMD, I would be perfectly happy using PGB. I’ve used XSP for years. BMD for a year now. I’m now using BCD. I like them. I really see no reason to change. Each tool taken separately (XSP/BMD/BCD) compared to the PGB component that it mirrors is more powerful. But the fact that you get each tool plus the 440 articles is quite a deal for the money. If you buy the Demons and XSP and all these other tools it will add up.
I’m beginning to wonder if it’s better use of time and money to start out spending the $400 or so you’ d spend on those tools on getting outsourced articles. $400 could buy you essentially 30-40 Squidoo lens and/or Hubpages (10-15$ per quality article of 400-500 words). After 3-6 months you should recoup those costs with Adsense if you choose the right keywords. Time spent: minimal. Maintenance required: minimal. Getting backlinks would be the biggest timesuck. Rinse and repeat. Or take the money/foundation and purchase PLRPro.
I guess what I’m saying is to relax. You don’t have to spend a ton of money. There are free methods that work just fine. My #2 performing site is a crappy and ugly Blogger blog. I haven’t updated it in 6 months. It’s got about 25 articles that I rewrote from PLR. I make money with Hubpages/Adsense. I make a little cash with Squidoo. It all adds up.
Hi Splork,
I clicked through your affiliate link and found out that PLR Pro is sold out. Do you have any idea when they are reopening it for new memberships? Thank you.
Hey Sam. I don’t. They have like 4 groups I think of 200 people each. If they can service another group with good quality, they would. As people leave they’ll open up a spot. I’ll try to find out from March or Daniel but I’d put yourself on the email list if you haven’t already.
Thank you for your advice, Splork.
I have put my name on their e-mail notification
list.
Using Blog Comment Demon is a helpful one to find quality high pr blogs to your site, i used this and your $47 is very worthy.
Blog comment demon is a product of edwin soft, they had bookmarking demon as well, these tool is precious for us while we are finding related blogs to our niche.
Ok, I’m confused here. In your first comment Splork, are you talking about BCD, or did you start talking about Fast Blog Finder? I have the paid version of Fast Blog Finder, and I’m wondering if I should just continue using it, or if I should look in to getting BCD. I also have BMD, but I thought it was crap, because of it’s success ratio. But what do you suggest between the paid version of FBF, or BCD? Thanks for your time.
Just stick with FBF. BCD won’t be any more useful than what you already have.
Great advice, dude. Just put my e-mail on their list for future updates.