Just recently, Wanda and I have been discussing our blogs and which ones we want to work on. We have over 20 blogs/websites and even with the two of us, it is way too many to work on at the one time. So we decided to concentrate on just a couple over the next few months one of which is the blog you are now reading.
In the past, we haven’t really promoted this blog all that much – in fact, hardly at all. I just enjoy writing posts for it so wasn’t all that concerned that we weren’t getting much traffic. So now that we have had a change of mindset we have started looking at ways to increase traffic and comments to this blog.
We already know of quite a few different methods to do this but we are always on the look out for new ideas. To really succeed in this business you have to be prepared to be a continual student and learn as much as possible in order to stay ahead of the pack. So with this in mind, I went scouring the net for any new tips on how to increase blog comments.
I didn’t have to look far as one of the blogs I like to regularly drop in on is Zebida.com and on this blog I found a post about a WordPress plugin called Comment Luv. Comment Luv is a WordPress plugin that extracts the url of the last blog post of the person leaving the comment. This assumes that they have a blog of course. It then posts the title of that blog post with a link below the comment they have left on your blog. This encourages people to leave comments as in return for the comment they get a link back to their website.
Now I’ve heard about this plugin before and in fact I was recommended it sometime back as a result of a post I wrote on the Top 20 Plugins to Increase Traffic to Your Blog.
The only problem I had with this plugin was the fact that I felt it would just encourage spammers. I had used a dofollow plugin in the past and had a similar problem so removed it. But from what Hesham was saying, it looked like it made a big increase in the number of comments he started receiving on his blog and they didn’t look like spammers to me.
So I have decided to give Comment Luv a go. I installed it yesterday so will give it a couple of months to see how it develops. It will be interesting to see if it does in fact make a difference.
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I think you’re going to enjoy CommentLuv. I like it not only for the generosity aspect, but I enjoy reading the headlines I see myself. Good decision!
I must admit I like reading the headlines too. Mind you it can result in me getting a bit sidetracked as I click on the links to read the posts…and I don’t need to get any more sidetracked than I normally do…LOL!
Wow! This is an excellent add for your blog, I am a fan of CommentLuv and I highly recommend it, I use on on all my blogs as a way to be updates with the recent posts of my commenter blog, and yes almost all comments i receive are not spammers at all, but maybe from time to time you will need to clean some normal miss!
Good Luck and thanks to point to my post!
Thanks Hesham and thanks for putting me on to this plugin. I look forward to seeing if it makes a difference to the number of comments.
We’ve Added the Comment Luv Plugin to Our Blog …
CommentLuvJust recently, Wanda and I have been discussing our blogs and which ones we want to work on. We have over 20 blogs/websites and even with the two of us, it is way too many to work on at the one time. So we decided to concentrate on just a cou…
I’m not using it yet on my blog, but I like the principle.
Franck
After reading your post I installed this plugin on my blog. What an excellent idea. I think I’ll be a fan, but if the spam seems to Multiply, deactivating is a click away. Thanks for the information.
.-= Rick´s last blog ..Let Go, Forget the Past, but not All of It =-.
Yes that’s the beauty of this plugin. It is so easy to disable.
This is such a good idea Paula, I really like the concept. As you say we will just need to keep an eye out for the spammers, mind you akismet catches most of them.
Paula,
CommentLuv is one of the two best comment plugins out there for WordPress in my opinion. The other is DISQUS which I use on my blog. I keep hoping that one day the two will be combined into one plugin because they both have great features which the other lacks.
Brad
.-= Brad Harmon´s last blog ..Blog Walking: The Shameless Self-Promoter Keller Hawthorne (2/3) =-.
I have seen DISQUS used quite extensively lately. The only issue I have with it is that it is one extra step for a person to take when leaving a comment. At this point in this blogs development I don’t really want to do anything to discourage comments.
I will be publishing a blog post later this month that compares DISQUS & CommentLuv. I would love your input on it when it is posted.
.-= Brad Harmon´s last blog ..Blog Walking: The Shameless Self-Promoter Keller Hawthorne (2/3) =-.
I’d be happy to. I’m looking forward to reading it to find out a little more about DISQUS.
Wow! Great post! I am a huge commentluv fan and rave about the plugin often.
I am extremely happy to find Aussie bloggers that are so successful! I found your many blogs by listening to a James Martell’s pod cast….
I have a few websites that make money from Adsense and affiliate marketing (mainly clickbank) but I am going to give amazon a try now..!!
It is a great plugin. It encourages people to post their comments which is a great thing.