Adding CommentLuv Plugin And How To Tweak Feedburner For Better Backlinks
Everton | May 17, 2008 | Comments 29
The new theme is working brilliantly and I’m very happy with it. All I’ve got left is a few small tweaks and bugs to iron out, which aren’t urgent and I’ll do them gradually. I’m still glowing with pride that I’ve customized this theme myself, rather than paying a designer to build one from scratch.
I have added some new functionality to the site, and thanks to Zath telling me about the CommentLuv WordPress plugin, I have just added it to my site. CommentLuv encourages readers to leave more comments by rewarding them by automatically adding a link to their latest post below their comment.
This is a great idea for a number of reasons:
- If the post has a punchy title and the comment is left on a popular post or blog, then it will get traffic
- The link automatically updates with the latest post, so it just keeps on giving
- The link points to a post rather than a blog homepage, so it could give vital deeplinks
- If the blog has removed nofollow from links, then readers will get a double benefit
Unfortunately CommentLuv only captures comments left after it has been activated. If you have a blog then try leaving a new comment on any post on the blog and you will see how it works.
Because the CommentLuv plugin grabs the latest blog post from your Feedburner feed, you may need to make a change to your feedburner settings to get the full benefit. This is because feedburner uses redirects, so the actual link will be passing on the link love to Feedburner, who then redirect the link to you. Making the tweak below discovered by Martin will also ensure that you get the maximum benefit from any external links featuring your feed:
- Login to your account and choose the feed you want to edit
- Click on ‘Analyse‘ and then under ‘Site Stats‘ in the sidebar click on ‘dare to be different?’
- Uncheck ‘Item Link Clicks‘ and then save
If you’re looking for other ways to increase the number of comments on your blog then check out the related posts listed below.
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Does anyone know if CommentLuv works well with the new 2.6 version of WordPress?
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Thanks to the article, Now there is more reason to comment than ever before! Everyone should participate. I am incorporating what your wrote to our project!
This is a great plugin, I installed it on my own blog a week ago, but it’s stopped working, on version 1.98? Anyone else had this issue?
I seem to be having the same issue
CommentLuv is a great and most useful tool to add depth and breadth to blog comments and overall interactive discussions on blogs and blog postings
Installed it but havnt been able to get it to work yet but looking forward to having it on my site
It is a great new way to have the plug-in commentluv with your wordpress blog and it is an easier way to elicit responses from your readers with this tool
Nice post. I did not know that it updates to last post. Do you mean all links or comments change when you make new post.
CommentLuv is a great asset. It gives incentive to people to rapidly communicate with each other through comments and wordpress provides the software to also block spam at the same time, so altogether it is a great advancement.
Cheers,
Jessica