Comments are the one of the main deciding factor of a blog’s popularity. Thus to make Commenting on SmartBloggerz with more fun and more benefits, I have done several changes in the commenting system which I think is really gonna benefit you all a lot. I have done 3 important changes which are as follow :-
1. Comments are now DoFollow! – You read it right; I have now made all comments on this blog DoFollow which will help you boosting your PR and rankings. Thanks to the Dofollow Plugin which helped me in doing this.
2. Link to your blog article – Another change I have done is that I have enabled the popular CommentLuv feature in this blog. This enables the commenter to leave a titled link to their last post automatically whenever they comment or they can also select any other post from their blog too.
3. Add your Twitter ID – This is the last thing which I have done in the commenting system. Thanks to Andy Bailey who discovered a wonderful plugin Twitip ID. Basically this enables the commenter to add his/her Twitter ID in the “Twitter ID” field. Thus helping to boost his/her twitter followers. I am really looking forward to this plugin success.
I hope I have done some important changes in my commenting system to encourage you to comment on the article posted here plus to post comment replying to other comments of commentators.
If you wish to advice any other changes which you think is really great the do tell me by commenting below. Go have a try with this new Commenting System on SmartBloggerz.
[Update 1: One more addition to this. I have added the ability such that commentators can now edit their comments before 3 mins from the comment made so that they can correct any typo error or false sentence. Hope you like it too.]
[Update 2: Gravatar Feature also enabled. If you don’t have a gravatar then jump up to www.gravatar.com for more info and set up your gravatar]
[Update 2: Gravatar Feature also enabled. If you don’t have a gravatar then jump up to www.gravatar.com for more info and set up your gravatar]
[Update 3: Ajax Edit Comments have been removed due to some problems; Now I have enabled the KeywordLuv Plugin, Enter YourName@YourKeywords in the Name field to link the keyword with your URL to take the SEO benefits of commenting on this blog.]
NOTE: You will find your comments dofollow only after you have crossed our limit of 7 comments. This will be done automatically through a plugin. This has been done to keep this blog clean and better from those one time commentators looking just for immediate backlinks.
Really great comments system.. impressive idea
.-= Fotoseksi@Foto Artis Seksi´s last blog ..Keira Knightley =-.
Hey Sushant!
Very glad to see you sticking with the DoFollow plugin – to me it is very mean to have CommentLuv with NoFollow blocking the link spiders.
😎
Rhys
.-= Rhys@Monetize Your Site´s last blog ..Build More WordPress Traffic =-.
That must be great. Everyone is now switching to dofollow and gravatar enabled comments. This makes readers to comment more and reach the authors, in the mean time getting backlinks for the sites.
.-= Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..How To Use Facebook Effectively =-.
Yes, it’s time for reader to show up themselves and be a part of the blog itself. Reader become pilars of the blog by it comment. Well, about gravatar even i think it’s not affecting too much but it’s still interesting. Anyway, what is your gravatar mean? Novice blogger logo?
.-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.
Yes I had my pic in it and I wished if I changed like this it will become somewhat branded and gets more exposure for my blog
.-= Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..NoviceBloggers Celebrates Christmas with its 50th Article =-.
Its really great to comment on smartbloggerz.com, along with the do follow its great to have fun with adding a twitter id with the comment.
Thanks for these tips for commenting.
And now the contest goes on too. That brings us lot of do follow back links. My Yahoo inlinks has raised to 1k more in less than ten days.
.-= Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..How To Use Facebook Effectively =-.
Ah really? Even me never check the link increasement since start my participation of contest here. Let me check it, guys 🙂
But i’m sure there will be a lot of increasement.
.-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.
Do follow is a great feature to allow your readers to benefit from contributing to your site. They get a beneficial back link while the blogger gets increased relevant discussion. A win-win for both parties really.
Sure it is. I can see everyone switching to dofollow other than for ads and affiliate links.
.-= Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..7 Questions You Should Answer Before Blogging =-.
Yes, trend has change. If in the past, blog admin turn off their do follow or even comment form because fear of spam, now their open it up and add do follow. Because nowadays, people do almost anything to get visitor (contest, do follow comment, top commentator, twitter exposure, paying member, freebies, etc)
.-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.
May be because Spammers also spam no follow nowadays and bloggers have thought its good to be dofollow and spammed 😛
.-= Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..NoviceBloggers Celebrates Christmas with its 50th Article =-.
Hi Sushant
I’ve been toying with the idea of installing CommentLuv and possibly KeywordLub, but can’t make up my mind.
I’ve read a few articles explaining the benefits of using them but sites like Pro Blog Design have stopped using CommentLuv, so I’m a bit suspicious.
I’ll have to think a bit more about it….
BTW Lots of interesting articles on your site.
I would like to know what reason makes pro blog design disactivate it. Maybe their have not strong enough spam prevention plug-in?
.-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.
I think we have to go more stronger in anti spam things when we give lot of benefits to users.
.-= Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..NoviceBloggers Celebrates Christmas with its 50th Article =-.
CommentLuv is good. You can have them until you get a good no.of comments and returning readers to your blog.
.-= Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..25 Google Wave Invites for Grabs =-.
Decided to install it… looks great with that little red heart.
Let’s hope it attracts a few comments and not all spam.
.-= Keith Davis@Public Speaking and Presentation Skills´s last blog ..Practice, practice, practice… =-.
Typhoon, i come up here and reading update #1, but also in the part of article you said Ajax is removed already. What is the problem? I hope it’s enabled again please since i think it’s needed. How about to make a vote? If there is problem with Ajax, just use another plug-in which have same function.
.-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.
It wasn’t looking good on this theme..So had to remove it..Maybe looking for some other kind of plugin.
But if you’re patient enough with misstypo from reader, adding no edit comment plugin is OK for us :P. Are you OK?
.-= akira07´s last blog ..Quick report – My Smartbloggerz Commenting Idol 2 Participation =-.
Yeah but it has another option of request deletion. That may help the readers too.
.-= Senthil Ramesh´s last blog ..NoviceBloggers Celebrates Christmas with its 50th Article =-.
This is a great way to encourage your readers to contribute more to your site. You offer a ton of great benefits in exchange for relevant and meaningful comments. Is it good to see you also have a comment policy so your readers know what to expect of of the comments in order to get a good backlink. Thanks again!
Nice list of comment wordpress plugins. I am using ajax comment edit function too on my blog. It helps the commentators to edit any mistakes easily before it goes for moderation.
I think these plugins help make more people participate in your blog. Just make sure you moderate them. It might be a bit of work, but it definitely increases participation.
.-= kai@seo blog´s last blog ..SEO Company =-.