Adding CommentLuv Plugin And How To Tweak Feedburner For Better Backlinks
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
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Comment by Surfer Jerry on 29 September 2008:
Installed it but havnt been able to get it to work yet but looking forward to having it on my site
Comment by Comment on Comment Luv on 25 September 2008:
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
Comment by john on 3 September 2008:
I seem to be having the same issue
Comment by Andrew Kelsall on 28 August 2008:
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?
Comment by Education Blog on 23 August 2008:
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!
Comment by Best CD Rates on 13 August 2008:
Does anyone know if CommentLuv works well with the new 2.6 version of WordPress?
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Comment by Eric Merten on 5 August 2008:
testing ur recommended feedburner settings, seems like i cant get commentsluv to work w/ my blog