I need to get a list of blogs of a certain category together (I'm talking 1000's), so I can contact them about a link building campaign. Can people advise on the best way I can go about compileing this list? Thanks for the help in advance
get an excel sheet go google, put inurl:blog +niche and record blogs one by one - youll get a much better response rate if you dont do it by bot and spam them - i.e. go manually to each blog and contact them one on one - offering your incentive.
Another option is that launch a blog or site and place a form with title, category and URL fields and little bit advertise with this submit your blog or site in FREE of cost and show there blog or site in particular category.
best way is buying a blog commenting software. otherwise you have to work hard finding them from the search engine.
Does Blog commenting software find huge lists of categoriezed blogs that I could export? - I am not really interested in doing mass comments as I think that is pretty spammy, but I would be interested if they can provide me with easy lists so I can use it to manage things.
I don't recommand software for blog commentings, for me, only spammers use software to comment. Better is to write comment manually, you will get a reward for it ^^. You can hire someone to do a list of dofollow blogs related to your subject for you on Freelancer.com i already saw many employes ask for a list.
Here's a tool that helps in finding for dofollow blogs: http://www.seopositions.net/dofollow/ Code (markup): or you can use this one: http://www.inlineseo.com/dofollowdiver/ Code (markup):