A great way to get good incoming links to your site is to post comments on other people’s blogs. Not just spammy comments but actual comments that add value to the original post. If you add an interesting comment it will have two benefits. One is that the comment is likely to be approved and two, actual readers of the comment might be tempted to head over to your site.

A while ago you could go many a blog and post a comment and this would give you a link to your site. People were guilty of posting spam comments. To help stop this practice the “no follow” tag was introduced. What this does is it stops the search engine spiders from following the link in a comment to another site. The no follow tag has made it more difficult to get links back to your site.

The people at Portal Feeder recently created a piece of software called “Comment Kahuna”, which is used to search for keyword related blogs that you can then leave comments on. The latest version (1.6) can be used to find blogs without no follow. I have been using Comment Kahuna for several months with good results.

Yesterday I received an email with details about a similar software program. It is called “Real Link Finder”. It is distributed by Neil Shearing. I downloaded the program and set it up on my computer. If you refer the free program to a friend you get access to a short training video. I did this and also checked out the video. It provides some useful information however you can survive without it.

This evening I have been running a side by side comparison of the two programs. I used “tennis apparel” as the first search term I wanted to find blogs on which I could leave comments to link to my tennis website. With Comment Kahuna you can specify what PR you want the blog to have. In Real Link Finder you say how many comments you want about the post it is searching for.

After hitting search in both programs Real Link Finder came up with no results. On the other hand Comment Kahuna found quite a few blogs with relevant posts that I added comments.

Next I entered “flight to Beijing” which I wanted to link back to a page with tips for finding a cheap flight to Beijing. Once again Comment Kahuna came out in front. It found more than 20 blogs, compare this to one from Real Link Finder.

I tried a few more search terms and Comment Kahuna always seemed to find more blogs. Both programs have a basic interface so there was not difference in terms of usability. The main criteria I judge this comparison on is the number of blogs I can find to leave comments. Based on that I have to give Comment Kahuna the thumbs up.

You can get Comment Kahuna for free from the Portal Feeder website. Real Link Finder is available at RealLinkFinder.com.

If you have used one or both products leave a comment and let me know what you think.