Difference between Free and Gold Editions
Here I’ll demonstrate you how the Gold version of Fast Blog Finder differs from the Free version. You can estimate yourself the capabilities of both editions and decide which one you prefer.
The keyword phrase I used for my comparative test is "make money".
How many blogs does the Free version find?
I got 50 blogs for our target keywords. Only 3 blogs are "DoFollow", 33 blogs are "NoFollow" and the type of 14 URLs is not determined because there are no comments on those pages yet. After the use of the deep scan option, the results are:
DoFollow - 5
NoFollow - 38
Unknown - 7
So, there are 5 "DoFollow" blogs to leave comments on in the first place. In addition, I can sort the "NoFollow" blogs by the Domain PR and Page PR and comment on the blogs with higher domain and page PR hoping to get a little more human traffic to my website.
Hint: To sort the blogs by more than one column, hold down Shift on the keyboard and click on the column heading.
How many blogs does the Gold version find?
Now it’s time to test the Gold edition. I’ll get ahead of myself and tell you that the Gold edition of Fast Blog Finder has no limitations on the quantity of blogs to return. It will show you all the blogs that the search engine returns for your keywords. Plus, you can indicate yourself the quantity of pages to fetch from the search engine. I used th default parameter - 3 pages.
Well, for my test keywords "make money" the Gold version returned 834 blogs. I ran the deep scan mode and the final results are:
DoFollow - 125
NoFollow - 372
Unknown - 315
HTTP error - 22
Here is the visual proof.
So, I have 125 "DoFollow" blogs to comment on. 125 against 5 in the Free version. Marked difference, don’t you think so? Plus, I have 372 "NoFollow" blogs. Those which have higher PR are worth to comment on too.
I feel I should also tell about "Unknown" blogs. If the program was not able to determine the blog type in the deep scan mode, it means that the blog doesn’t have any comments on the latest 10 posts. This can happen if 1) the blog is very very popular, the posts are added so quickly that the users don’t have time to read them and post comments; or 2) the blog is abandoned, not supported anymore or simply crappy. I don’t think those blogs are worth your attention.
i have gold edition about the software. i need also Turkish Language for blogs.
Hi,
First of all i have been using the gold edition from more or less the day it came out and it has been a god send to me and my partners.
The only problem i seem to have is with regard to proxies. On the proxy tab it says to enter the proxy and username and password, can you please tell me where i would go on the internet to get proxies with usernames and passwords?
i use proxy software called hidemyip and it works well for other software i use, but it seems to do nothing for this software. Hide my ip changes the ip in my internet explorer, what way does g-lock blog finder find blogs, i mean does it take any setting from explorer or has it an inbuilt browser for doing this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated as i have recommened this to many people who have gone on to purchase it
Thanks
Louis Neill
For most free proxies you don’t need the username and password. Simple leave these fields empty
hi, thanks for the reply.
So i just put in the proxy ip in and port and tick the use http proxy server and thats all?
Do you know of a place where i can go to register for a http proxy server and get a username and password? I thought id ask you guys as you created this software lol and have added this part in the proxy field.
If i am wrong about how to use the proxy, please explain ok.
Thanks
Louis
Hi admin,
can you explain what is HTTP error?
By the way, the progress and update on this tool is truly amazing!
I’ve found that various dofollow finding tools often find off topic blogs and also find blogs that are seriously out of date.
The off topic blogs might still offer an opportunity for generating some useful links.
I think you should offer the option of returning only dofollow results. If you can tell it after the fact you should be able to query for it.
Is this blog dofollow or nofollow?
Hello,
If the URL gave the HTTP error, it means that either the page took too much time to load and the Blog Finder broke the connection to it by timeout, or the blog doesn’t exist anymore. You try to determine the type of such blogs later, maybe the next day. If they still give the HTTP error, most likely those sites are not live anymore.
Hi ComputerDoc,
>I’ve found that various dofollow finding tools often find off topic blogs and also find blogs that are seriously out of date. The off topic blogs might still offer an opportunity for generating some useful links.
Fast Blog Finder returns those blogs that Google sees to be relevant to your search keywords. You may think that some blogs are off-topic, but Google thinks that they are relevant to your keywords. You can enclose your search terms in quotes to get more accurate results. As to the blogs that are out of date, the search engine sees those pages as more trusted and returns on the top positions in the results. You can browse an old blog directly in the Blog Finder and if you find the most recent post on another page of the blog, you can write your comment and click Submit. After you submit the comment, the new recent page will be automatically added to the list of URLs in the Blog Finder.
>I think you should offer the option of returning only dofollow results. If you can tell it after the fact you should be able to query for it.
You can easily filter the blogs by the type and separate only DoFollow blogs after the search is complete. To do this, click a down arrow in the Type column and select “DoFollow”.
>Is this blog dofollow or nofollow?
Our blog is DoFollow. You can check it out yourself with the Blog Finder. Just add the URL http://www.fastblogfinder.com/fast-blog-finder/difference to the list of links and use the deep scan option. The type will be determined as DoFollow.
Hi Louis Neill,
>i use proxy software called hidemyip and it works well for other software i use, but it seems to do nothing for this software. Hide my ip changes the ip in my internet explorer, what way does g-lock blog finder find blogs, i mean does it take any setting from explorer or has it an inbuilt browser for doing this?
Please, try to do this:
1. Go to the Advanced Settings in Hide My IP
2. Check the “Use Proxy Field Method for Internet Explorer” option
3. Click Apply, then OK
4. Go to the Internet Explorer
5. Click Tools -> Internet Options -> LAN Settings
6. Copy the proxy server address and the port
7. Paste the proxy server address and the port into the Settings in Fast Blog Finder.
If you are looking for proxy servers, you can go to this site http://www.proxyblind.org/ and register on their forum. People share the proxy lists there. To verify the proxy servers for validity, you can use the Advanced Administrative Tools software, in particular the Proxy Analyzer module from this tool. You read more about the AATools here http://www.glocksoft.com/aatools.htm
>JG As to the blogs that are out of date, the search engine sees those pages as more trusted and returns on the top positions in the results. You can browse an old blog directly in the Blog Finder and if you find the most recent post on another page of the blog, you can write your comment and click Submit. After you submit the comment, the new recent page will be automatically added to the list of URLs in the Blog Finder.
Some of these blogs most recent posts are over 2 years old. There should be a filter for removing blogs that haven’t had an entry since a selected date.
>I think you should offer the option of returning only dofollow results. If you can tell it after the fact you should be able to query for it.
>JG You can easily filter the blogs by the type and separate only DoFollow blogs after the search is complete. To do this, click a down arrow in the Type column and select “DoFollow”.
This method is much less effective because most of the sites returned are not dofollow.
>Is this blog dofollow or nofollow?
>JG Our blog is DoFollow. You can check it out yourself with the Blog Finder. Just add the URL http://www.fastblogfinder.com/fast-blog-finder/difference to the list of links and use the deep scan option. The type will be determined as DoFollow.
When I viewed the source of your blog, I saw rel = “nofollow” on some of the links. Why doesn’t this make it nofollow?
I set them manually
Is it necessary to use a proxy server? What risks are posed by not using a proxy server?
Thanks
Hello Marc,
>Is it necessary to use a proxy server? What risks are posed by not using a proxy server?
No, using a proxy server is not necessary. There are no risks if you do not use a proxy server. Just, please, keep in mind that if the quantity of requests for Page and Domain PR from one IP address surpasses ~2000, Google stops returning the PR. The indicator at the right bottom corner in the Blog Finder becomes red in this case. So, if it happens you can change the program settings and use a proxy server to find blogs and determine their PR.
I think i will order the complete version.
I just tried out the free version and only got like 2 do follow results with pagerank 0….
Greetz
Nick
I have used the free version of your software and it appears ok.
I will go for the gold version in due course.
Thanks for a good software.
I am wondering if anyone knows how to turn off No Follow on a Wordpress blog (the kind that you install on your own domain). I have searched through the various WP instructions and cannot find anything about it. I would like to make my blogs Do Follow. Since there are good spam filters, I am not sure why we need to be No Follow any more.
There are several free plugins available that automatically remove the nofollow attribute value.
Comprehensive Reference for WordPress NoNofollow/Dofollow Plugins
Suggestion: In the free version, also provide the number of sites that the GOLD version would have provided as a teaser.
Also, I’m wondering about the benefit, or lack thereof, of posting a “keyword tagged” blog comment on a totally unrelated blog. For instance, if I put up a health keyword name on this blog post … would that help me, hurt me, or have no effect?
Hello Colin,
Thank you for the suggestion. It would be a nice feature. However, to calculate how many blogs the Gold version would have returned, the program would have to conduct a search for all the blogs. This would take much Internet traffic. I don’t think the user would be happy with this because he won’t see the blog URLs and consequently won’t be able to submit comments on those blogs.
If you post a comment with your keyword on an unrelated blog, this doesn’t matter for search engines. It won’t hurt you. But it may matter for the blog owner. Will he/she want to approve your comment if your anchor text is not related to the blog subject? It depends on the blogger only. You should see how other commenters did. If hey used their names or nicknames, you should better do the same thing. If you notice that somebody used the keywords as the anchor text and the comment was approved, you can try to do so too.
I would recommend that you read my recent post where I tell about the use of names and keywords in the anchor text when submitting the comments. You can read the post here: http://www.fastblogfinder.com/can-nofollow-links-hurt-you/
Since the day before yesterday i was trying the free version. It is a very goog program and the same day I downloaded, I started already to comment.
Googling about the “unknown” posts I found your blog, read the text and decided to buy the gold version. To my keywords, in english, I found 4 dofollow, but with the gold version, I hit 49 green posts. Its amazing!!
Thank you very much!
The deep scan take quite a long time to finish. I am thinking to upgrade to Gold, but wonder will the speed of scan increase in the gold version? Because the more blogs it returns, the more time it will take for deep scan :(, or is this simply because my internet connection?
The speed of the deep scan option is the same in the free and Gold versions of the Blog Finder. Of course, how fast this option is primarily depends on your Internet connection. And how much time the Blog Finder will spend to find the first post with the comments does matter too. If the program doesn’t find any post with comments among the latest 10 posts on the blog, the link type will remain Unknown.