Use CommentLuv for better comments
Categories: Entrepreneur
Written By: Koka Sexton
I just finished my daily ritual of reading my favorite sites. Tay over at Super Blogging must have added a new plugin to his site. Once I left a comment I saw that it had grabbed a feed from my site of the last post and added it. I saw that the plugin is called commentluv and once I saw this I had to have it.
Encourage Comments
Everyone that blogs knows that leaving comments is a great way to drive trafic to your site. I can not tell you how many new websites I have become a frequent reader of by clicking on the link with the commenter’s name. Some sites still have a hard time driving traffic with this but I think all in all that comments in blogs are the best way to get new visitors. Asking questions of your readers is a great way to encourage comments and I do not do enough of it. I will start to do this more often.
The truth is besides loving to see that a post was commented on, I like to see the sites of the other readers.
Reward comments
One way of rewarding comments is called link love. Bloggers that create special posts for their readers that highlight the websites of their top
commenter’s is a wonderful way of rewarding other bloggers. For blogs like mine that do not get a large number of comments (though I would love them) adding this type of plugin could give you an added bonus that will encourage more comments on your blog.
You will see this addition to the bottom of the comments section. If you have a blog and want some extra backlinks, here is your opportunity.
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January 19th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Thanks for dropping by my blog and for the link! I agree with you, commenting is one of the best ways to network and meet other bloggers, and to get your blog out there. I think CommentLuv is a fantastic plugin and helps reward your commentators and send even more traffic to them. Thanks for writing this.
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January 19th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
You are so right about the commenluv plugin encouraging comments as well as the conversation. I have several blogs I take care of and I am getting it installed on all of them slowly but surely.
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February 10th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Thanks for this info! I am going to go check it out right now. What a great idea and a nice ethical bribe for more comments. Things that can get the conversation going are always welcome.
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February 15th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I’ve started using commentluv on a couple of my sites and I LOOOVE it, thanks for the post!
alejandro
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February 25th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Is CommentLuv plugin fetch the rss of our blog ?
And if true, what rss fetcher used by this plugin ?
The best rss and simple rss fetcher i think is simplepie.
easy to modify for what we need.
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March 18th, 2008 at 3:19 am
This looks like a pretty cool way to give people an incentive to leave comments.
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