There has been a method floating around for a while that leverages blogs that utilize plug-ins that list their top commentators to create good inbound links. While this method is of questionable value as more and more blogs use the “rel=nofollow” parameter in their anchor tags to reduce the link’s value to spammers, it is still interesting and requires more thought. In a recent thread on the subject started by Dave King, a BHW user asked:
Thx, nice idea. But how do you find Blogs with ‘Top Commentors’ on front-page?
Here are a few different Google query URL’s that one could scrape sites from.
WordPress blogs with a top commentators list that have been updated in the past week:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=allintext%3A+%22Top+Commentators%22+%22Powered+by+WordPress+%22&as_qdr=w&btnG=Search
WordPress blogs with a top commentators list that have been updated in the past month:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=allintext%3A+%22Top+Commentators%22+%22Powered+by+WordPress+%22&as_qdr=m&btnG=Search
Blogspot blogs with a top commentators list that have been updated in the past week:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=allintext%3A++%22Top+Commentators+%22+site%3A*.blogspot.com&as_qdr=w&btnG=Search
Blogspot blogs with a top commentators list that have been updated in the past month:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=allintext%3A++%22Top+Commentators+%22+site%3A*.blogspot.com&as_qdr=m&btnG=Search
It’s important to ensure that the sites you comment on aren’t using “rel=nofollow” on all outbound links, so be sure to check!
If you’re attempting to advertise to a specific region, you can add any of the following path arguments and receive region-specific results. These are just a few examples, there are many more.
United States:
&gl=US
United Kingdom:
&gl=UK
China:
&gl=CN
For a complete list of country codes, check out Google’s reference site.
Who has ideas for other queries?
We migrated to some new, much faster servers over the last 24 hours. There may be some hiccups over the next few days, but after initial testing, everything seems to be running smoothly. If anyone has any issues reaching any pages on the site or the forum or if your load times have increased noticably, please contact us ASAP.
These server upgrades will hopefully take care of some of the issues we’ve experienced when our site is under heavy load during sales. We’re also integrating new services that will require a bit more juice than our previous hosting solution provided.
We imagine that by this point, any regular readers of our blog know that we aren’t the type of folks who would give anything that we didn’t use and believe in ourselves a review. The only other thing we’ve publicly reviewed is AutoPligg, a powerful tool that is really beginning to catch on in the black hat community. We were one of the firsts to review it and still stand by what we wrote all of those months ago.
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We’re really excited to announce that we’ve decided to bring on another customer service representative here at blackhatzen to help our customers and clients get the most out of our products. His name is Mike and he’ll be officially starting with us during the launch of our next product.
He is an exceptionally intelligent and gifted internet marketer who we’re proud to have within our ranks. He’ll be helping people via email and through the blackhatzen forums. As always, we want our customers to know that our future relies on their personal success. Adding an extra set of hands into the mix should help decrease our support request turnaround times, as well as add an extra mind into the blackhatzen think tank.
With that said, we will be launching another product in the next 4-6 weeks. We’ll post more here once details have been firmed. We’re extremely excited about our next offering and think our customers are really going to enjoy what we have in store. As always, the source code will be included, unencrypted, so that the hackers, thinkers, and marketing minds among you can adapt and play.
We’re currently working on making the installation of certain aspects of our methods much easier than it has been in the past so that newer marketers or marketers with less technical prowess will still be able to achieve with what we’re offering. Also, due to our customer’s demand, we’ll also be ramping up the support base in the forums before product launch so that everyone who purchases will have the opportunity to discuss and form a community with other buyers from the beginning.
Our goal has always been to bring the right people together with the right kind of bright ideas. This sorts of synergistic relationships help to create business opportunities that are both safe and profitable for everyone involved. If we all learn something along the way, we’ve been successful.
We can’t wait to show you what we’ve got in store for the future.
