Many of us have used blog comments to jumpstart a new website. Links are a commodity, and beyond the benefit they impart when it comes to SEO, it’s easy to get caught up in a numbers obsession. Feverishly watching Analytics numbers, Alexa ranking, Pagerank and Technorati authority are all symptoms of this disorder.

Good links never hurt your site, but I’ll tell you why all that time you’ve spent commenting on dofollow blogs in pursuit of higher Technorati authority might have been a wasted effort.

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As part of his work to speedup my site and server, my techie Chris inadvertently changed the way my site displays comments.  Now rather than displaying the oldest comment first the site is showing the newest comment first.

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If you’ve been having problems leaving comments recently can you let me know comments@connectedinternet.co.uk  Comments on the site seem to have almost dried up and those that I have seen has nearly all gone into the spam folder, which makes me very suspicious!

I have a feeling that one of the new plugins I’ve been using as part of my wordpress tuning has been playing up.

Thanks in advance

EB

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I’ve just added two new WordPress plugins to my site that will make it easier for users to leave comments:

1. WP-Ajax Edit Comments: WP Ajax Edit Comments (for WP 2.1+) allows users and admins alike to edit and delete comments on a post for 15 minutes (user-defined). Great little plugin that worked straight ‘out of the box’.
2. Comment Quicktags: After trying a few plugins, I finally found a plugin that allowed me to add quicktags to my comment form. Thanks Ibrahim!

Enjoy.