Review: Comment Kahuna, a blog commenting tool
Comment Kahuna was the other main commenting tool that I evaluated. I compared it to Comment Hut Lite and decided to use this one instead. Here is my review of Comment Kahuna, which is totally free.
Like Comment Hut (see full review here), CK searches for blogs that you can comment on, and goes a step further – it lets you set up a profile complete with your name, e-mail address, website and canned comment. Editorial: don’t be a spammer! Please make sure your comment is relevant to the blog post.
Once you find a blog that you’d like to comment on, CK lets you click a button to automatically enter that pre-typed info. In most cases, this works, but it does fail on some sites. This is quite a time saver.
Pros:
- CK supports more blog platforms than CH Lite does.
- It includes a network of blogs that do not use the ‘no follow’ tag in their comments.
- The ability to create ‘profiles’ to pre-type user info for commenting
Cons:
- CK uses an embeded Web browser so that it can perform the nifty trick of pre-filling the comment forms. However, it’s not a very good embedded browser and it sometimes gets stuck on pages. This is bad of course, because then you spend a lot of time waiting for it to stop, thus defeating the time-savings advantage. What it really needs is a Stop button, so you can quickly get past a blog/Web page that isn’t loading or is very slow (or the ability to click the Skip This Blog button to stay active). I unfortunately found myself having to manually kill the application and start over. Luckily, the profile info I had saved was still there, thus making it relatively easy to resume where I had left off.
Despite that sometimes major bug, compared to Comment Hut Lite, it really is the better tool. Now if CH (Comment Hut Pro) were somewhere around the $10 mark and included the form pre-fill feature, I would be willing to consider purchasing it, but it really does have to beat this free tool first.
