SEO WordPress plugin to export commenters and find influencers w/ Domain & Page Authority
Why are you looking for links from strangers, when your fans are already on your blog?
Here is the Commenter Export WordPress Plugin, for those of you who hate to read.
For a LONG time, I have been preaching about looking at the links right under your nose before trying to come up with a BIG idea that requires a ton of outreach. Whether it is the use of a broken link wordpress plugin that alerts you when pages you have linked out to are 404′s. Or how Ethan has been talking about using Twitter to build links.
So today, we got another easy concept, in the form of a wordpress plugin that will hopefully help you get links, do great outreach, and succeed in SEO.
Assuming you have a blog, and you get comments on it, from someone other than a family member, you are sitting on a gold mine. Outreach is hard, getting people who don’t know you to be interested is difficult and so often when you are thinking of outreach, you’ll look at lists of bloggers, using tools like followerwonk, Klout influencer lists, topsy expert search, etc.
I am asking you to think differently – think how about looking at your existing fans who are commenting on your site as the first place to consider outreach. You have people in your CHURCH, why are you running past them to go try to convert people on the street?
So one day I was thinking, damn wouldn’t it be awesome that when we pick up a client if we could index all of their commenters and go find them and see the influencers? So right off the bat before we get started using the tactics above, how about we look for the influencers leaving comments ON their actual blogs already, versus going out and trying to find new people to convince to link to us, as a start?
I looked for a solution to let me export commenters on a wordpress blog, so I could run backlink analysis on their commenter URLs to see the influencers. There was none I could find, so Chris Le at SEER built it and added a serious goodie, the ability to pull Domain Authority and Page Authority, thank you to our friends at SEOmoz who release this info for free. So with our new plugin, we are offering to you for FREE, you will be able to get the Mozrank of every commenter on your site to start the “spark” for your outreach.
There’s only one downside to the tool, if we pull all this data at once we were worried about slamming their servers, if they give us the green light, we will update it to pull everything.
Here is the Commenter Export WordPress Plugin, we plan on adding even more data points, what else would you like to see?
[Update (Chris Le) Nov 11, 2011 @12:15 EST: Unauthorized error message w/ new API keys]
If you just signed up for an brand new API key from SEOmoz, you might get “Unauthorized” errors. It takes some time before it becomes usable. If you’re using an existing key then you should be OK. SEOmoz’s API page says it’s 5 minutes but it might be longer if they’re getting hit with a bunch of new signups. :)
Posted: 11.03.11
Harsh Agrawal:
Looks like a great idea…Downloading and trying this now….
Quick question: Do we need to have a pro SEOmoz account to use it?
Chris Le:
You don’t need a pro SEOmoz account. You only need the free one from http://www.seomoz.org/api
Harsh Agrawal:
Thanks Chris for quick reply.. Will try now and if find useful will be sharing about it on my blog too …
Mark Simons:
This sounds very cool.
I am going to try this tonight. Apart from it being a great way to find links, it also looks like a great way to locate and reward your biggest fans.
Actually why not combine the 2? Send your most active commenter an email saying they can claim a free gift off you. make it highly personalised and they are sure to blog about it.
Chris Le:
If you’re making a brand new API key, there’s some time between when you generate a key and when it actually becomes active. If you get “Unauthorized” give it an hour then try it again.
Joseph Chambers:
wow. That is pretty awesome. Too bad my new websites using expression engine. Might need to build something like this for EE. :)
Jon Cooper:
I’ll be writing a post about this momentarily! So excited to see a new tool for me to test out :)
Bryant Jaquez:
WOW. That is such a good plugin. I’m going to go use it right now.
Wil Reynolds:
Mark, I LOVE that usage, 2 for the price of 1, right?
Downtown eCommerce:
Thanks for highlighting this great WP plugin Will, I’m going to be putting this bad boy to work for our clients shortly.
As usual, thanks for the great linking tips.
Adrian Drysdale:
Loved how you said “CHURCH”. That has to be a reference to the “Search Church”, which I have spent way too much time following its progress :)
Kieran Flanagan:
Cool, I am going to try this out. Just a quick point, would you guys not hack the AddThis tweet plugin so it doesn’t @Addthis when people retweet your posts?
SEO Doctor:
Really smart idea, nice one guys. Off to test…
Wil Reynolds:
Kieran, we are relaunching the site, we’ll see about it when we move to a new site design, thanks!
Tommy Skålberg:
Looks like a great SEO plugin for WordPress, downloading…
Cody Baird:
Muchas Gracias Will! Sweet tool. Definitely going on the to-do list.
Darren Spruyt:
Cool stuff! Heard Wil’s presentation at Social Media Plus and told myself to get this plugin! Now I’m using it, so it looks like I’ll be taking some time to be commenting on some blogs I’ve never visited before! :)
Definitely helps with my SEO too. Thanks guys!
Sandeep:
Hi Wil,
when i am trying to dowmload Commenter Export WordPress Plugin, its giving 404 error. Please can you advise where can i get this plugin
Regards