This may come as a SHOCK to you…
Fast Blog Finder v3.0 has a new engine which recognizes new blog platforms and finds much more DoFollow blogs than the previous version. When developing the v3.0 we spent many hours for manually verifying hundreds of blogs to ensure that the program determined the blog type correctly.
Despite this, we don’t expect the program to be 100% accurate in analyzing the blogs. So, we added the "Report Wrong Blog Type" option to the program. Using this option you can send us the URL of the blog that was determined incorrectly by Fast Blog Finder. We'll check it out and make improvements in the program engine. When a new version of the checking engine is available, Fast Blog Finder will download it automatically when you open the program. You won't need to re-download and re-install the entire program. Fast Blog Finder will update the checking engine automatically every time a new version of it is available.
Well, now I continue my tests…
First of all I decided to test a few free blog commenting programs but they appeared to be not very usable. The principle "You got what you paid for" works here perfectly.
And what about paid blog commenting software?
I purchased a blog commenting program from our closest competitor.
I took the keyword phrase “home business” and ran a search for the blogs in the competitor’s program.
Here are the final results (first search + deep scan to determine the type of Unknown blogs):
Total search time: 66 min
Total of blogs found: 1354
DoFollow: 69
NoFollow: 626
Unknown: 659
I started checking DoFollow blogs manually. The manual check of 69 DoFollow blogs showed: 11 – DoFollow, 22 – NoFollow and 36 – Unknown.
Now I decided to check those 69 blogs with Fast Blog Finder.
I exported 69 blogs to a file, imported them into Fast Blog Finder v2.6 and ran the “Detect Type” option.
From 69 blogs classified as DoFollow by the competitor’s program the old v2.6 of Fast Blog Finder determined:
DoFollow: 11
NoFollow: 22
Unknown: 36
As you see the old 2.6 version gave the same results as the manual check.
Now let's check 69 DoFollow blogs in the new 3.0 version.
Here is what I got in the v3.0:
The results are still the same in the v3.0.
Then I loaded NoFollow blogs found by the competitor's program into Fast Blog Finder v3.0 and scanned them. From 626 NoFollow blogs 31 turned out to be DoFollow, 539 – NoFollow and 56 – Unknown.
And what about Unknown blogs found by the competitor's tool? After scanning 659 Unknown blogs with Fast Blog Finder v3.0 I got: 17 – DoFollow, 302 – NoFollow and 340 – Unknown.
But let’s dig further…
Now I decided to run a search for the "home business" keyword phrase in the new 3.0 version of Fast Blog Finder and compare the results to the results from the competitor's tool.
Here is what Fast Blog Finder v3.0 returned for "home business":
Total search time: 35 min 45 sec
Total of blogs found: 2555
DoFollow: 661
NoFollow: 1323
Unknown: 551
HTTP Error: 20
Now I’d love to hear your comments and thoughts. Leave me a comment below and let’s discuss.
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Comments (29)
Very excited about the new release. I purchased the v2.6 on 10/6/09, which puts me in the 90 day prior to release free upgrade, am I correct? Thanks for improving an already great software.
Hi Brian,
Yes, you will get the upgrade to the v3.0 for free.
I got I your email about fast blog finder. I have an older version and do not use it much as most of the posts it finds are old and people do not approved replies very often. Does the new version deal with this?
Thanks.
Bring on next week. Julia, are you going to email existing customers as soon as the cart opens for 3.0?
Hi Anders,
I will email all our customers who checked the “Notification Preferences” option on the program activation screen. By checking that option customers give us their permission to email them and notify about program updates and other useful information. So, if you are subscribed, you will receive a notification email about the new version release. If not, please, feel free to visit our blog and check for the v3.0 release.
Amazing, it looks like christmas is on the 10th of December this year (-:
Really great news, i seams like your team did a great job with the new version, i am allreday happy with the version 2.6 i have got, and i am totally exited to run my main search terms through the new version.
Morten
by the way, the fact that your results are so much better than the competitors is no shock to me, we’ve tested 5 different programs about 2 years ago, and yours was the only one given good results, the other ones don’t even come close!
keep up the good work
cheers,
Michiel
Hi Julia,
I find that no blog post with a list of blogs that are said to be dofollow is correct.
Not only is it hard to find lists of do follow blogs but the lists are very unreliable and usually contain less than 50% of blogs that are still dofollow.
It is therefore no surprise to me that your competitor was showing incorrect information. They probably use those incorrect lists.
I am surprised that your product is that accurate.
I may consider getting it in the future.
Vance
ok, now that I’m on a roll … what about limiting searches?
for niche markets it’s better to have less results
I prefer 10 blogs that are actually all related, than 100 blogs of which 80 are not really related, sometime not related at all … it’s just adjusting the search amount, is that something you could implement as well?
My congratulations! You earned a DoFollow link
Yes, we’ll add an option to limit the number of links to find only the most relevant blogs.
In fact, I already have a test 3.0 version where there is an option to select Top 10, 20 or 50 links from each search request. As Fast Blog Finder sends several requests with different footprints for your keywords, you’ll get approximately 50-60 most relevant blogs if you choose Top 10 from the Start menu.
you’re the best!
I can’t wait to test the new v3.0
you can always use my as a guinea pig if you want, also for the program
FBF is working great for me and I had just upgraded from my free license to the Gold edition!
Was glad that the 50% Christmas offer is still on!
I had just used the discount code to enjoy a 50% off the software price.
I also noticed that the ‘Detect PR for DoFollow blogs only’ feature is finally working now in version 3.0.1
FBF had just made my life easier! Thanks for such a great software Julia!
Hello Julia,
First of all, thanks to you and your team, link building has become a whole lot easier for a lot of us
I see these “Author must have XX approved comments before I remove NoFollow” rules popping up nowadays. Given the fact that most DoFollow blogs do get spammed comments, am not sure how blog owners will change their blog’s commenting rules. All in all, it’s bound to get tougher to make comments and get 1 way links like we used to!
Either ways, a great piece of software that i’ve enjoyed for a while – even though it’s slow and all
Looking forward to V3.0!!!
Cheers
–Nav–
I’m eagerly awaiting the new release. I am hoping it will have improvements on the akisment side of things too, as recently I’ve been finding that a lot of my comments are being auto-nuked. I have tried using another IP too.
Its really shock me. I am waiting for new version and thanks for adding its new feature about “Report Wrong Blog Type”
Thanks
It would be great if there were a column which showed which platform the page was on, so that you could steer clear of platforms you disliked for whatever reason.
Julia this is a BUM. I am happy am going to get mine for free.
But i use a cable modem at home (Africa) Hope the new v3.0 will work fine with it. Then how about telling us when an update has been made to blog-do we get that too with v3.0? But i am going to love this.
Hi Julia,
I can’t wait for the new version and take it for a spin.
sorry to say this, although I love your program and we use it daily, the v2 version is still not accurate
take this blog for example;
http://andybeard.eu/434/ultimate-list-of-dofollow-plugins-banish-nofollow-from-comments-and-trackbacks.html
the blog is set to have only commenters with minimum 10 comments to get dofollow links, so there’s a mix of dofollow and nofollow links; those are the very best pages, as it’s mixed google will actually take it serious and the dofollow links get more link value, while it shows in the blog finder as a nofollow because of the nofollows some of the comments have and so ignoring the fact that many of the comments have dofollow anyway …
so, I really hope the v3 version is able to figure that out, if so, then your program is withouit any doubt so much better than the competitors, as you’re already better now
cheers,
Michiel
Hi Michiel,
We came across such blogs too. Unfortunately, there is no way to determine the type of such blogs correctly. Therefore, in my article I mentioned that Fast Blog Finder v3.0 is not 100% accurate in determining the blog type. And for this reason, we added the new “Report Wrong Blog Type” option so that the user can send us the URL of the blog that was classified incorrectly.
Currently, Fast Blog Finder classifies the blogs with mixed links in this way. If the page contains both DoFollow and NoFollow links in comments, the blog is determined as NoFollow. If there are only DoFollow links in comments on the page, the blog is classified as DoFollow, and if there are only NoFollow links in comments on the page, the blog is considered as NoFollow.
well, in that case I would prefer you set them as dofollow
whenever we do for example 600 blogs, 500 are nofollow and 100 are dofollow
to check those 100 and find that i8n fact 10 are nofollow, that’s no problem (usually when it’s a page without comments yet, so the program can’t check it)
but to check those 500 nofollow to find those 5-10 dofollow blogs is totally impossible, it just doesn’t make sense, what’s the point then of using the program, if we would have to double check them all to find those mixed blog, because those mixed blogs are the very best ones!!
maybe start a poll or so, I vote – show mixed dofollow+nofollow comments as dofollow!!
that would make a huge difference, it would make the program much better, while it sounds as if it’s just a small adjustment for you guys (or … let people choose how it shows, that’s probably a much bigger adjustment, maybe for v4.0
)
So, we think we’ll introduce a new blog type “Mixed” in the v3.0. The blogs with both types of links in comments DoFollow and NoFollow will be classified as Mixed.
I’ve got a new 3.0 version for test and scanned 1524 NoFollow blogs. From 1524 NoFollow blogs the new version marked 166 as Mixed.
YES!!
that would be great, I’m sure that most of the very best blogs you found are in fact in that mixed list … check it out, especially because they have long pages, but only a few get the dofollow link, so that makes those links extra valuable!
I’m all for it. and this way people can still make their own choice, it’s a great solution
(I’m happy as a little boy with a new toy now
)
Julia,
You’re taking the right approach. Unknown is just fine as a category.
I would caution folks on underestimating the value of do-not-follow comments on high PR ranking sites.
I have several websites at number 1 on google, bing and yahoo with nothing but do-not-follow posts on high PR sites. Any insider that does linking building for a living will tell you the same thing.
Yes, given a choice, I would always prefer do-follow. But to throw away the others is insanity.
Sincerely,
Ron
I’m a bald man tryin to pull out my hair…besides tryin to figure out how to get more traffic & sales to flavored coffee site…I can’t figure how to get the 3.0 version for free…is it to late as of today to buy the gold version of the 2.6v to get the 3.0 for free…I’ll be checking back here often…
No, it’s not too late. If you purchase a license for Fast Blog Finder v2.6 Gold edition now, you will get the upgrade to the new 3.0 Gold version for free.
I have the paid version of your software and it is pretty good at what it does. The only thing that I don’t like that it does is when i want a blog that your programs says is a “do follow” blog and it has no posts on it yet. I post a comment on this “do follow” blog and it is highlighted with the red tags from my fire fox browser saying it’s a “no follow” blog. Does the new blogging updated software solve this problem?
Hi Aaron,
Yes, the new 3.0 version will solve the problem when the blog type is determined incorrectly.
I’m testing the FBF in the moment intensivly and there is one thing that I am missing.
The list with the blogs shows an column with the last update to the blog. I find this information very good. An blog which is very old wont bring as much as an active blog.
But I am missing an column with the info when the found blog-entry was made.
I know that even old posts are good, but I can plan more when I see that that entry is maybe from 2006, then a rather new one from 2009.
Is this feature in the 3.0? If not… maybe you can take this as an feature request for the further development.
(I am sure it is too late for the 3.0 
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