This software has many more important functions that I like… and it’s FREE. Though I wasn’t sure about it until I read your review, and now I’m going to download it and try it out. Thanks for the great review/comparison.

I noticed one guy is claiming there to be a trojan with the file. I can 100% guarantee there is no trojan, no virus or anything in any version that has ever been downloaded from my website. I have not updated the .exe in many months now and no virus scanner has picked it up as having any sort of virus signature.

I don’t know why anyone would claim it had a virus but meh. Thanks for enjoying it guys.

P.S Im still getting occassional downloads from this review, thanks again.

I know you were just pointing out how quick it worked, I just thought I would be a smart ass

Thanks!
-Aaron

The way the tool works is it searches based on certain footprints of these blog comment plugins and so any blogs it finds on those footprints are listed as using that comment plugin, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to list them and then maybe go through the pages to see if they fit the other footprints and label them as such, I haven’t heard of this being a major issue amongst my users though, I will ask around and see what others think of this idea.

I currently don’t have any tools out in the public domain other than the blog commenter as most of my work has been for specific clients and / or my own personal uses.

I do have other tool(s) in the pipeline but they are decidedly much bigger than this commenter. I am hoping for a release this year or early next year at the latest, it will be a big tool with methods of gaining lots of backlinks, content and stat checking. I will definitely send a review copy your way when its done.

I will check back here in case you or any of your readers have any questions, criticisms or ideas about the commenter.

Thanks for allowing me space in your comments section.

Re: your points in reply; I’m glad the small bugs are being ironed out!!

in regards to my points:

5) It is exactly as you say; so you cna track the number of outgoing links on a post/page etc so you can see where the links may be ‘worth’ more in a purely link value sense.

6) Here I meant for example some sites are both Comment Luv AND keyword Luv or Dofllow or Top commenter; i.e. they have multiple benefits. At the moment I have found the software just picks up on one of those aspects and displays them.

I just thought it would be cool if it would show that Site X has keyword AND Comment Luv etc etc

Great tool though and would be interested to know if you have any others in the pipeline (or made)!

I would like to address a couple of your “Dark sides” if I may (dont think Im getting at you or anything, I do this on all reviews I find to help make the product better in future):
1)Comment Tracking – as the tool is free I kinda got it to its 3rd revision and figured enough was enough. I had never had anyone mention this as a possible addition to my tool and will definitely look into a 4th revision with this included. Thanks for the tip.
2)Program Freezes – I am fully aware of loading large lists and occassionally saving extremely large lists will temporarily freeze the UI. The tool is still hard at work but the UI is frozen due to a lack of threading in these parts of the app. Its not perfect I agree, I will get this sorted in future.
3)In-built profile saving – I agree that this would be nice but I also prefer the profiles being portable so I can setup a campaign and then take the profile to another computer. I have 3 offices (including home office) so having the portability of profiles was what I saw a need for. No reason I couldn’t include inbuilt for future I guess though.
4)Region issues – I have had this brought to my attention a number of times, as the results are pulled from SEs I sadly cannot control them. I feed the SE a region and it replies with (supposedly) relevant results, my tool just delivers these to the UI. I have an idea of how to help people manually sort through them which could help but isn’t perfect. Sadly I have no real answer for this yet.
5)Post Comment Number Filtering – err. Whats this? Do you mean sort the blogs by which have the most comments and therefore more outgoing links? If so this could be interesting but maybe an outgoing link counter would be more effective as sometimes blog posts can contain large link lists. If I have the wrong meaning here gimme a slap and let me know what you did mean by it please.
6)Doesn’t show multiple platforms – again not really sure what you mean by this could you clarify please?
7)Posts rendering blank – I have noticed this occassionally and it is a bug I am aware of, sadly it will not be fixed in v3 maybe in the 4th, we will have to see though.

I hope that this comment isn’t seen as a hijack of your review, I really liked it and am chuffed you felt it worthy of a 4/5. I just like to have a chat with all reviewers as you guys have made this tool more popular than I could ever have imagined. Any further input would b egreatly appreciated.

Again thanks for the review and your time reading this long ass comment

@ Forest ofc not Forest none of us want to leave unrelated comments; related comments work better However as you know commenting is a great link building tool and I would recommend using it! however always have guidelines in place and keep certain things in mind when doing it to get ‘best bang for buck’; an example of which being here: http://www.dollarshower.com/blog-commenting-checklist-for-effective-link-building-networking/

Thanks for the review.