I am a firm believer in showing love to my readers, bloggers and non-bloggers alike. I have been a ‘Do Follow‘ adopter from the very beginning of my blogging days.
DoFollow
For those unaware, WordPress makes comments a ‘nofollow’ link to make it unattractive to spammers. But, there has been a movement to reward commentators with a linkback by removing the nofollow from comments. The DoFollow WordPress plugin makes this really easy to acheive.
So, anyone leaving a comment here will get a PR5 link back to their website helping them a little in their search engine ranking. Yes, ShanKri-la just went from PR4 to PR5 with the latest pagerank update!
CommentLuv
CommentLuv is another awesome plugin in use in ShanKri-la. This is purely to highlight the commentator’s latest post automatically by parsing their blog’s feed. So, with every comment you leave, your latest post is automatically showcased in your comment giving you some exposure with my other readers.
KeywordLuv
Even though you get these benefits, the links to your site doesn’t carry much weight like a link with a targeted keyword as anchor text. That’s why we see comments with names like ‘Free iPod nano’, ‘Detroit Real Estate’. Although it looks spammy, some of these folks are well meaning and leave comments that contribute to their discussion. I can tell a spam comment most of the time and I delete them without hesitation. I do allow comments with keywords but I still don’t get to know the name of the person leaving the comment.
My friend Stephen Cronin has solved this problem with his new plugin, KeyWordLuv. Here is an excerpt:
KeywordLuv helps you reward your commentators by separating their name from their keywords in the link to their site. This gives them improved anchor text, which can help their site rank higher in the search engine results.
You can now leave a comment with your name as well as a keyword of your choice here and get a PR5 link back to your site! How cool is that? People pay big bucks for that and all you have to do is comment here.
Here is how you do it:
Leave a comment with the name field like this : (spaces are fine)
K-IntheHouse@Top Firefox Extensions
The name link in the comment will appear as:
K-IntheHouse from Top Firefox Extensions
If you are a registered user, make sure you logout to see this. Check out Stephen’s other useful WordPress plugins as well.
Words of Love
I have taken the time to make this blog friendly as well as rewarding to you should you participate in any discussion here. And I highly encourage you to do so as a blog’s real value most times lies in the discussions & comments.
But, please don’t abuse it by leaving meaningless comments like ‘Nice post’ just to get some keyword love. It doesn’t help anyone and I will delete it even though I appreciate the encouragement.
Are you ready for some loving?
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Tiger Lily,
Welcome to ShanKri-la and thanks your input. What you said is so true and glad to see such huge welcome to these plugins. I saw that you visited Stephen’s blog too. That’s so nice of you. 🙂 Hope to see you around.
I am a huge fan of this plugin. Cheers for using it on your blog.
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Hey Simon, thanks for stopping by and cheers to you too. 🙂
This plugin is great for any blog. More bloggers should use it. People who leave a valuable comment should get rewarded with a link. Thank you!!
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CommentLuv is just a great plugin, I like it too, thanks for using it there!
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This is a great plugin – I have just enabled KeywordLuv on my blog – pingable. Share the luv I say. 🙂
Yep K is back in the house, thanks so much for the plugin, its awesome
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DJ, Stephen is the one wrote the plugin, I just mentioned it. 🙂 Appreciate it though.
This is a great plugin! Thank you so much for posting about it. I sure plan to implement it.
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This is a great plugin! I have a dofolow blog set up for comments like these. Do feel free to come and comment….Do Follow, and ancor whaterver you would like.
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This plugin has certainly gotten more popular in the past month….
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Thanks for sharing this plug-in. This really made my visitors to use their real name after @…:)
Jack, you are welcome and hope you enjoy the boost of comments in your blog! 🙂
I am a big fan of the KeywordLuv plugin. I was getting sick of seeing people keyword stuff the name field. This to me looks like a win-win for both the blog owner and the commenters.
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This will be the first time I’ve tried KeywordLuv, I hope I’m doing it right!
Thanks for the informative post.. today has been an eyeopener for some really cool plugins – CommentLuv and KeywordLuv. I feel the same as you do about rewarding those who actually read the post and provide quality comments; so I’m going to add these plugins to my blog.
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Ryse, me too. This is the best compromise one could think of and a great incentive for the motivated.
Rick, you did it perfect and welcome to ShanKri-la! It’s just great to see this being welcomed by the blogosphere (does anyone use that term anymore?). Thanks for the comment.
I’m starting to see this plugin in more places. I guess I should start considering using it myself.
Thank you owner of ShanKri-la blog for information and Stephen for great plugin. it is really good deal. Thank guys for your doing.
wow, you have all the great plugin installed. This is a really great way to boost up your traffic 🙂
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I’m using both on my personal blog (not the one linked above). So far, I’m very happy with both of them. KeywordLuv is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for for the last year or so. It promotes community and conversation…and it allows unmolested anchor text for linkbacks. Huzzah!
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K , first time in a while to your blog, loving it, I am going to have to add this plug in to some of my blogs as well
I luv this plugin, thanks for installing it. I will drop by regulary to check your blog from now on. There’s some real cool stuff on here.
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installing luv comment and keywordluv is the two greatest things i’ve done to my blog. It helped increase traffic my blog and traffic increased 3folds! Amazing isn it. I’m sure you’ll be a great success!
Congrats on the high PR. I am not a highly experienced blogger and neither an IT expert, so this entire game of nofollow and dofollow is making no sense to me. One could say that is the way it is and to deal with it. But comments that simply say nice post or great job, simply dont mean much to anyone — other than to the commenter whose sole purpose in life seems to be getting backlinks. I personnally comment only if I have an opinion whether agreeing or disagreeing with the subject matter and if I can bring something to the table. If you give me some link love great; if not thats fine too. It is like helping some poor soul with a flat tire on the highway; you can choose to help or not but if you do to get some money in return, then that becomes a paid trade and not the work of a good samaritan. The reason I started blogging was to share my thoughts on a little known technical subject. My goal has not been to make millions out of it. Anyway, I thank you for the opportunity for this comment and allowing my thoughts to be shared.
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I have just started a new site and I am looking at using this plug-in to get comments up, and make the my nice new fresh site look like it has plenty of readers. I hope it works 1/2 as well as it is here. 🙂
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Thanks for the Tip on Comment Luv. A great way to generate traffic. Thanks for the blog!
I’m going to have to give in and try the KeywordLuv plugin. I think it’s a great way to encourage readers to leave a comment, but also get people thinking about keywords and really drives SE results. Although, that means more competition for everyone else…hrmm.
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Thank you for this very helpful post. I am quite new to the blogging world though I have had a plain website for years. I am trying hard to get up to speed ASAP and sites like this are just so helpful. I shall be looking into both Commentluv and Keywordluv…
Nice plugin. And I appreciate for the link love 😀
This is great, now I can combine online marketing with actually reading blogs that I enjoy.
in my opinion KeywordLuv is better way to reward the commentators. Because it’s not only backlink a website need but also the anchor tag with targeted keyword..
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You could add another layer of spam filtering with the WP-Recaptcha plugin. I use it on my own blog. When this plugin combines with Akismet, a lot of spam doesn’t even make it to moderation.
Most spam appears to be trackbacks, though.
Thanks for letting me know about Keywordluv. I’ll give it a spin in the near future.
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Does anyone know if this plugin works with the new 2.6 edition of WordPress?
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Now there are no screenshots for commentluv so I need to test it here. And thanks for allowing me to 😉
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oops testing keyword luv now.
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@Rob
I have it running on a 2.6 WordPress site, so to answer your question: Yes 😉
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Michael.. thanks for sharing that! 🙂
From what I have noticed is that CommentLuv definitely encourages people to leave feedback.
Thanks for the great article.
Gary, as you can even this post is very evident of that fact. Great to see more people get on board.
interesting conversations in here!
Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog, adding the dofollow plugin is one way to reward but why not place a link to their last post under their comment, with CommentLuv, you can do that automatically! This is an excellent way to promote comments from your readers.
Its really a good move. Especially for the genuine commentators and owning blogs. I don’t understand if “no-follow” is a way keeping away spammers then why comments go into moderation. Of course blog owner will approve only if its valid and value comment to his/her post. I have blogger though and looking to implement this into my own blog(s).
Thanks.
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JS, as you can see from the number of comments, it is pretty popular now.
latif.. it will be interesting to hear from you how you did it in Blogger as others here might be interested in doing the same.
I firmly believe in the commentluv and the dofollow movement but unfortunately keywordluv won’t work with my present theme. Comments are important to me which is why I always follow those who leave quality comments to their blogs and reciprocate with a comment of my own
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Sire, have you tried maybe picking Stephen Cronin’s (the plugin’s author) brain a little about your issue with the plugin. He is a great guy and might be able to give you a pointer or two.
It is totally counter-intuitive but I think KeywordLuv actually results in better quality comments. You would think it would be all spam, but it isn’t. I think it is because such commenters understand better than most the relationship between link building and blog owners.
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lisa, it sure is counter-intuitive. I have even considered disabling it when I’d see the occasional mindless comment but comment such as yours restores my faith. 🙂 Plus, I am meeting a lot more folks with same interests as me this way right here in my blog. Thanks for stopping by here and hope to see you more.
That is really awesome
We are able to get backlink from other weblog or site with pagerank 0-6 or may be even PR 7-8 with no paying anything. no more paying for link:)
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Wow! NICE! This is the first I’ve heard of KeywordLuv plugin.. what an excellent idea, I think it’s my favorite do-follow plugin yet! Thanks for the info!
Do you know where there is a comprehensive directory of comment luv sites listed by category? I am specifically looking for real estate websites with commentluv.
Thank you.