Tomorrow is a year since I partnered up with Stewart Alexander and started to sell Comment Hut outside of my own small circle.
What a year it has been, we have given away over 6k copies of Comment Hut lite and sold , well 100’s , of the full version.
In that year we have added 2 new platforms and made sure it works with vista.
I am more than happy with the way Comment Hut has sold and continues to sell, but as Janet Jackson sang “What have you done for me lately?”.
I was chatting to Stewart yesterday and asked him what could we do to make Comment Hut stand out above all the rest?
I have some ideas for things we can add to Comment Hut (although we will probably make it all into a companion tool for Comment Hut, yes don’t worry present owners will get the companion tool free) but I really want to hear what you would like us to include in a new tool.
No matter how strange, or outlandish you think your idea may be let me know by adding a comment here and I will see if we can include it.
Oh and before you ask, yes we will look at the whole “follow” thing (I am writing a report for you guys on that because all is not as it may seem)…
So what else would you like me to include in the Comment Hut Companion tool?
Oh and if you don’t yet own Comment Hut..
Day After Thanksgiving Sale
Paul
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November 10th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
I would love it if it could somehow find blogs with the no follow tags removed, as well.
Also, if it had a way to sort by posting date…for some of my uses I just want the latest blog news, not the highest PR.
November 10th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
This request is for Comment Hut since I have no idea what a companion tool would be like. I would LOVE to have a way to sort results by date. I use Comment Hut to help index my sites but also to bring people to certain sites. I’d rather post to blogs and such that are currently being viewed instead of to posts that are several months to several years old.
Also, I’d like to be able to use the shortcut to select all (CTRL-A in Windows) instead of the current method of selecting all results.
November 10th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
I like the software, and its very useful, i like the idea of selecting a date range of blog posts to really make it more relevant. But again older posts have better PR.
Great tool guys keep up the great work
ps. maybe look at social networks as the next area.
November 10th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Finding blogs without the “no follow” attribute and be able to sort these by PR would be a great feature…
/Steven
November 10th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Hi Paul and Stewart,
Here are some ideas for a future version:
1. A link to check for the latest updates inside of the program
2. Check PR on specific blog post and blog homepage
3. I agree with the others… a way to sort based on PR or by latest post date
4. Separate blogs with no follow vs do follow tags
Keep up the great work and hope to hear about a new update soon
November 10th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Am a happy user of CH! Would suggest the following:
- date range on the blog posts
- a column than indicated whether you clicked on the blog (so that I visit only new posts)
- a way to export the data and links for outsourcers
- adding web 2.0 sites
November 10th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
1) As mentioned before - find those without “no follow”
automatically
2) Allow comment posting
November 10th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I’m with everybody else here, it would be really sweet if you could separate posts so I can easily identify blogs with no follow on.
More platforms to post to would be great.. there are tons of social bookmark platforms that you could easily apply your software to. Umm what else…
Maybe a quick link to check how many backlinks a blog post has… whether it be yahoos tool or googles… would be another way aside from PR to decide if the page is worthwhile posting on.
Cheers,
Ryan
November 10th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Thanks guys and girls
Dhira
You are a bad man, you know I won’t add your 2nd request..lol
Allen
You can export the information you collect with Comment Hut easily enough, it is in the manual, if you have misplaced the manual or need more info contact me.
I was already kicking the idea around of some sort of record being kept of blogs you have visited.
I am thinking along the lines of project management, so you would have a project (which would probably be the name of the domain you are promoting) and you could keep a record of the blogs you have visited.
Keep the ideas coming as this is all just on paper at the moment so there is time for me to make changes.
Thanks
Paul
November 11th, 2007 at 3:22 am
Ha! Looks like someone beat me to it as far as a suggestions goes, but I would certainly endorse being able to detect the blogs that have a nofollow tag and remove them from the list.
Cheers Paul,
Ric Raftis
November 11th, 2007 at 11:45 am
1 vote for nofollow tag!
1 vote for built-in browser to see what the blog for quicker browsing and commenting
1 vote for parsing for links (ie. your project management idea) that have are already posted to blogs
November 11th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Finding blogs with no, no follow tags is a must! Also project management is a great idea! Also possibility to search for exact match keywords (this may already work, not tested it yet) and the ability to search for more than one phrase at a time, so you can start a project enter all the relevant words and let CH find all relevant blogs, then you just export the results and outsource the commenting work or whatever.
November 11th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Hi Paul.
I am a Photographer in Fort Lauderdale, FL
I just bought the Comment Hut two weeks ago. That is Great.
But I don’t want to talk about how great the Comment Hut is. I want to talk about how great PAUL is.
I was wondering about the program, and Paul was available trough SKYPE. He had the time to explain my doubts and still gave me a good discount on the program… Paul… Thank you Very Much!
Paulo
November 12th, 2007 at 4:40 am
Hi Paul,
I agree with most suggestions above. One thing I’d like to ask is regarding the best practices of CH. For example, I know it’s great for indexing new sites but have you or anyone else used it (or use on a regular basis) for an ever continuing promotion of existing sites?
I find I can get sites indexed pretty quickly as I’m turning more and more to creating wordpress sites. But, as each site needs to be promoted, paying other webmasters for links is expensive and link exchanges is time consuming.
If it were the day before Christmas I’d ask for an indepth manual on how CH could be used as an ongoing promotional tool. I’ve read the manuals but I still get confused on how to submit to blogger blogs for example.
Anyway, love the tool but would really like to know how to use it as a promotional tool. I wouldn’t rely on it as the only source of promotion but would like to think “beyond indexing”.
Any thoughts or do you consider your current manuals enough and I just need to re-read them over and over? lol
In terms of the tool itself, I agree that finding blogs without the no-follow tag would be great!
Cheers
November 12th, 2007 at 5:45 am
I would suggest the following:
have the ability to find Blogger blogs
select all with CRTL + A
if I fix the width on the columns with my mouse (PR; URL, Type of platform, etc) I would like CH to remember it next time I open it.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Thanks Paulo for the high praise, I am glad I could help.
Looks like everyone agrees on the “follow” bit, although I don’t think you should just discard a blog because it has the nofollow, you will still get visitors from the blog and to be honest the big G seems to be following some nofollows when it suits..
Scott
Manuals and how much info to put in them is always a tough one, people have a habit of not reading them anyway, and the bigger i make them the less they seem to look at them.
I don’t think ongoing promotion is any different to indexing, links is links, the more people see your comments as being valuable and your link to your site the more they will see your “brand” as having value.
I will think about this some more and see what I can come up with.
Web 2.0 sites
At this point in time , I don’t think I will be adding any to Comment Hut,I did a tool previously that searched some of the social networking platforms and to be honest there was limited interest so we never carried on with it.
I am outlining a web 2.0 tool which started of on the back of a electricity bill envelope and now covers a A3 sheet and a few A4 sheets stapled to it..lol
More Ideas
Ok so if you think we have covered everything here, what other tools would you like?
Freebie for you
Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far, I am working on a report to send the people who have posted something here (that has been approved), so keep a eye out for a personal email from me later in the week
Paul
November 20th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
testing the posting thingy