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[JoyfulJim]

Does anyone have a viable opinion of this "too good to be true" web tool?  Anything that will help drive traffic to our websites is a plus.

James
Joyful Enterprises, Inc.
http://www.joyfulenterprises.org
mailto:joyfulnursing@yahoo.com
As the name says we are overflowing with joy in all that we do.
Feel free to ask about any of our programs.

[Jay Jennings]

"Viable opinion," hmmm...not sure what that means, exactly.

But when I saw the video showing the product, and then found they don't (at this time) offer a Mac version, I pulled an all-nighter and wrote my own.

CK is a lot like most of my products -- it's not rocket science, it just takes a task that's usually too time-consuming to make use of on a full-time basis and makes it quick(er) and easy.

There's no magic involved, it's simply a POWER tool to help you do something that could mean more traffic to your site.

I think it's a win-win piece of software.

 Jay Jennings

PS - Full Disclosure: I've talked to the CK folks about possibly doing a Mac version for them. It's an "up in the air" kind of thing but you could consider me biased beause of that. Your call.

[Floyd Fisher]

(NOTE:  I bought and own this product...please leave this post alone)

I second that one.

All it is really is a search appliance that seeks out blogs that use the 'no follow' tag so you can comment on them to boost your search rankings.  I don't see a lot of harm in using it, provided you give value to the blogs you leave comments in.

Jay, why aren't you using a windows emulator for your ?

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html

[zeitgeist]

I thought it looked for blogs that DON'T have the nofollow tag- why seek out the ones that do?

You bought it? It was a free download.

It's somewhat useful, but I'm not sure how much more useful than an advanced Google search. For example, it seems to return a lot of blogs that either don't accept comments or aren't about the keywords I searched. So if I ask it for 50, there may be 10 I actually comment on.

[Jay Jennings]

One reason why you might seek out the blogs with nofollow is that maybe you're wanting to become involved in that niche. You might want to actually add content to boost your "street cred" without thinking of the links. To me it makes sense.

For someone who does blog commenting as a traffic source, I think Comment Kahuna is a great tool.

To the question about why I don't use a Windows emulator, mainly because Windows programs are (for the most part) uglier, clunkier, and less stable than Mac programs and it "offends" me that so many sheep put on their blinders and ignore a market that's traditionally been known as people who actually spend money on stuff.

I know, it's not a very diplomatic thing to say, but as someone who's probably spent more hours of my life on a Windows machine than a Mac, I feel qualified to be blunt. =:)

It's not rocket science to create cross-platform programs -- most marketers just don't care enough. And while I can understand the reasons/excuses they use, if you look at the market-share gains Apple has made in the past few years, ignoring us for too much longer will become a larger financial mistake. =:)

 Jay Jennings

PS - I know, horses wear blinders, not sheep.

PPS - I do use a Windows emulator (Parallels) to test the Windows versions of my software and to create the Windows-based installers. But running Windows just to run apps seems wrong to me. =:)

[Chris Lockwood]

Yeah, a couple more years and Apple may hit 10% market share.

Why exactly is focusing on 90+% a bad thing?

[Tony Blake]

Chris...

While Apple's marketshare maybe lower than PC's in general, they are quickly gobbling up marketshare while Microsoft continues to go down... why? - one word: Vista... Apple's marketshare in the PC market rose 14% in 2007 while MS dropped 11% and MS has conceded that it will drop even more...

Vista has been conceded, even by Steve Balmer - CEO of MS, to have been one of the biggest mistakes MS has ever made (superseding the release of Windows ME)... and it has pushed more people into switching systems/OS/machines than anything else... even with the recent release of Vista SP1 the OS is still a dog that causes more problems and frustrations than ever... XP was problematic at first, but Vista is a friggin' nightmare...

With the upcoming advent of Windows XP going off the market in late June and the only alternative being the horrendous Vista OS (until the release of Windows 9 in late 2009/early 2010) you're also going to see a continual rise for Apple and it's much more workable and usable OS... Does MS still hold the lead? Yes... Does Apple have a tough mountain to climb? Yes - but MS has even recently talked about getting out of the OS market within the next 5 years because of the challenges it faces and the missteps they've made (then again they're betting on the "Cloud OS" coming into being, where you OS actually lives out on the net "cloud" and you computer actually runs on a barebones file that needs to connect to the cloud to make it work)...

Of course the above comes with a bias - I'm a "Mac" fanboy... still own PC's and have been a PC user since it's inception (starting with the original 8086/8088XT) but Mac has turned my head and shown me what a well constructed, real, workable and effective OS can do (as it has most of the major marketers as well as beginning to get huge interest from big business)... 

Success!!!

Tony Blake
Marketing Mindreader™
New Media/Content2.0™ Maven
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[jmkane]

"Jay Jennings
PS - I know, horses wear blinders, not sheep."

I get my sheep only the finest from Victoria's Secret

[Chris Lockwood]

Where does that 14% market share figure come from?

This (and other sources) say about 8% at the beginning of this year:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9054798

This one shows it's still no higher than that:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=9

If they really stop selling XP the Mac share probably will go up.

[Davet]

Who cares what every body else is driving. If you like it it's great for you !
One of these day's I would like to try a MAC PC. They sound more stable.

DaveT

[Ron Killian]

I've only played the the Comment Kahuna, but i think it's going to be a huge time saver. Not just for finding the blogs, but also it's help in posting, like built in robo form. Sure you could do it with G and robo, but nice to have it all in one program, least my opinion.

While we are on the topic, does any get descent traffic from blog comments? I've seen small to moderate traffic.

[jaihyppo]

I must say that Comment Kahuna is a great piece of software. But posting or comments to blogs is pretty much a waste of time since you can do other sort of Internet Marketing works. What I do is I outsource this work to a freelancer.

[seoservicesdataentry]

hey . .  i've heard that it is. . .

Free website traffic promotion software gets you thousands of high quality and high traffic backlinks without spamming or using black hat techniques. . . .

but can not give surety. .

must try any experienced. . .