How Best To Use a Trick. Hard or Gentle?

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Ok. So today I finished a do-follow blog scanner. 90% accuracy on the do-follow part. Finds more by far than anything I've seen before.
Anyways, I was pondering how best to use this.
As I see it, I have a few options.
  1. Link Spam the Crap out of it
    It's fast, but finding proxies not listed by akismet is a serious pain. Beyond that, using it for hardcore blackhat sites could limit it's ability to pass link juice to me in the future.
  2. Hand Pick The Most Powerful Pages, and Manually Comment on Those
    I have a tremendous distaste for manual labor, but figure this is a good possibility. And better yet, it saves the list for later so I can use it as much as I feel like.
  3. Hire Indians to Comment
    They could at least create comments somewhat relevant to the entry. Right now I have no indian team though, so it'd take a bit to get off the ground. Not to mention I'd be fooling myself if I thought they wouldn't save the list for later to use themselves.
So what do you guys think is the best option here?
 


I'd go with #3 but don't pay them to post the comment. Scrape the title tags or some of the content from each of these URLs and have them write a comment that's related to/based on that. Maybe use RSS snippets if they're blogs. You end up with a database that goes URL, Snippet, Comment. Add fields for username, email address and website. From there either post manually or if they all share a common CMS and you can automate it, you won't need nearly as many proxies.

Or you could farm the whole thing out to some highschool kid in the US who's on summer break and won't have the first clue why you're doing any of this. Beats mowing lawns in 95 degree weather.
 
mturk if you want to scale... scrape the info and make your task: read this article and post a short comment on it 2-3 sentences.. use your programming magic to post the comment, pay said mturker 5 cents.
 
When in doubt, go the #3 route. It's amazing what you can get outsourced these days for virtually pennies...
 
I'd go with 3, but write an intermediate system so that the workers don't see where they're posting to.

The only downside is if they figure out what they're doing it for, and they're determined, they could Google search the content snippet and find the blog. Spreading the comment work out amongst several different workers who don't know each other could be a good plan. You could change workers after they've done to say 50 blogs to compartmentalise your risk.

I was just pondering the need for such a system this week - the fact that someone's done it might give me a kick up the arse to get coding again :)
 
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