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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Hi 😉
Really helpful article!
Thanks for posting it,
Andy
Kermit, sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner. RT at UnTwisted Vortex maintains a list of such blogs and he does a great job of maintaining it.
Okay. I just want to see how it works. 🙂
I love these two plugins, thanks for sharing this great info on them =)
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I totally dig how you incorporate flags and browser information in the comment section. Is this done with a plugin, or do you need to know certain code for this?
Nick, Firestats WordPress plugin provides this. If you are looking for link, it’s in my Top WordPress Plugins, post.
@ 105K: Thank you very much for the heads up on this. Highly appreciated.
thanks this is awesome. I would appreciate where I can find faucets niche sites to set up blogroll. commentluv and your wordpress plugin, learning something new everyday.
Like most everyone else, I would like to thank you for being part of the Do Follow movement…. It’s cliche, but, let’s fight spam, not blogs and not comments on blogs.
That’s why I love CommentLuv and KeywordLuv… they encourage real posts, from real humans….
Keep it up!
By the way – there is a new version of Commentluv That can use AJAX and has more features, the author, Andy Bailey is looking for help as he is taking part in the WordPress MU Plugin contest.
Have a look at http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/i-need-your-luv-help/
Mike
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Really nice plugin, thanks for sharing with us..:)
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Way to go with this plugin. I think you managed to attract a big amount of new readers because of this. I’m actually subscribed to your feed now because I love what you blog about. Thanks for everything.
They have had a really good idea creating this plugin. I´m sure it will increment your traffic, your readers, and your comments!!
What an idea-now the internet is doing what it’s forbears considered-an open interchange community-thanks for the heads up.
ah, now I know how keywordluv works. Thanks for sharing the info and gonna installed it on my blog soon. 🙂
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You have done wonders with your comments section.This is probably the only place where you get so much comment luv,not withstanding the amazing content you put here.
But,the only sad part is that i have my current blog on blogger and not on wordpress.Wish i could move it with ease and then make use of all wordpress plugins
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KeywordLuv is a nice plugin, but I suspect it will encourage spam. That’s the main reason why I have not added it to my blog, which receives over 300 spam submissions per day. 🙁
It’s a nice way to reward people. Thanks for your thoughts on this plugin
What a fantastic post you have here, I stumbled on it by chance! I have noticed though, that you were PR5 now you are PR2, so with a little social bookmarking we will get you back up there.
Tony.
Thank you! I wonder if it’s possible to combine the plugins into one? It would help avoid conflicts and the number of plugins to install?
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I just found out about keyword luv! I love it! It is such a great plugin! THanks sooo much for the info!
keywordluv great plugin, i install it in several my blogs 🙂
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Nice comments but it become difficult to read because there are to many comments.Couldn’t you paginate?
CommentLuv is absolutly great but the problem with it is it improve blog comments and also it leverage the average of spam comments.
so you can give your self more time to delete those junk comments
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@Sora:
I use Commentluv and even Keywordluv on almost all of my sites – And people who are actively searching for those plugins do make better quality comments than the others most of the time! I use Akismet against spam and it works very well for me.
Mike
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keywordluv is so great. Did you know, I add do follow plugin in my blog, and people starts commenting. Amazing!
this is a great decision, but this generosity on the webmaster’s part can result in lots of spam on the website. But as Michael (comment #124) states correctly, many people make an effort to post quality comments instead of spamming the sites.
The combination of keyword luv and comment luv has to be one of the best things that has happened. People finaly can get a link to post on blogs easy and control terms for main page at same time.
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keywordluv is great, thanks for the tip!
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when I start knowing this plugin, it sounds great, I tried on my first blog and gain a good impact and increase my PR. but you know since Google and other Search Engine always change their algorithm rapidly. I think it would be better to find some topical blog to niche. just to get long run impact. not just up and down again..
My only worry about going do follow is that it will lower the value of my site. I’ve read that the more links leaving your site reduces it’s cache with google making it harder to move up in rank. Does anyone know if this is the case?
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I too am a big fan of of these plugins and dofollow blogging in general, but to be honest I have had to implement a dofollow policy to combat how many spammers comment. If you only run one blog this might not a be big chore to clean up, but when you have 12 blogs of your own and are paid to manage others comment spam can take up a lot of time better spent blogging or napping. I would recommend it for anyone though, not just full time bloggers.
I use nofollow free and give commentaters nofollow of their website at between 1 and 4 approved posts depending on the blog’s PR, but context links links are still nofollow. For registered users who can use my site forums, get author profiles with more dofollow links, submit material for guest posts etc, they all get immediate dofollow on all links contextual and otherwise.
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Keyword luv and now comment luv have to be the 2 most popular plugins around right now. they seem to help both the blog owner and commentor. The blog owner gets new comments and the comentor gets a link to latest post or site.
Some of the sites only use keyword luv or comment luv. The ones that use both and are follow help alot. I have seen some blogs load slow or have problems with both plugins but i love both of them.
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Thank you for this post… I’m still trying to figure out how to take advantage of all these things on my site, and it is very overwhelming. I have CommentLuv installed, now I guess I ought to track down KeywordLuv, too!
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Great plugin! I activated this and dofollow on my blogs as well 🙂
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I have read on some website that making your blog dofollow can badly effect your pagerank due to many outbound links to low pr blogs and site.
And also linking to badly design low quality content websites can downgrade the pagerank of your blog
so if it is true than how a blog with dofollow plugins can maintain their healthy pagerank?
Thats grt, Thanks for the info. This will really help us.
Thanks again.
Good Luck 🙂
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Thanks for sharing this, I’m not all that familiar with Social media, networking and participating on blogs for backlinks as thus backlinks now a days are so week in googles algorithms, and I also believe comment links will be even weaker soon as it is not all that much different from paid links. But with this plug-in one is not buying links for money but rather a nice comment. one can take advantage of it while it lasts and commenting her and there is just nice.
I began my blog using commentluv but then stumbled onto Disqus do you have any opinion on Disqus? It seems to be more of a social feature rather than a pagerank sharing/commenting reward system. I’m curious to hear your thoughts on the two…
-Bob
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The 2 pluggins make a big difference in comments. It lest you have 2 links for one post. I like the fact the perosn gets to decide what post they can add and terms for link.
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I wasn’t familiar before now with keywordluv, but I’d like to check this out, and possibly add this feature to my site as well. Thanks for the information.
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I used KeywordLuv on some of my blogs but unfortunately I din’t see explosive comments…
Very nice information. Thanks for this.
Very nice info, Thank you
Im looking to add a blog to my site and comment luv seems the best bet, it looks easy to use and monitor, so it’s a good all rounder.
Thank you for sharing this excellent and easy to understand post.
keyword luv is such a nice plugin really helps both parties involved with the post.
KeywordLuv and CommentLuv are very helpful plugins. We believe that all bloggers should give them a try.