Why your Blog should be CommentLuv enabled

BY Ben Lang Dec. 05, 2009 219 Comments

I recently enabled CommentLuv on my blog, something that I should have done a long time ago. I’ve been concentrating on building a community, and one of the keys has been commenting. When you have 10, 15, 20 people commenting on each post it shows that you have a strong community built in to your blog. The question, though, is how to get 10, 15 or even 50 people commenting on each post?

That’s where CommentLuv comes in. One of the main incentives of commenting on other blogs is backlinks. If you leave an intelligent comment on any blog and your name is linked to your site, it could always contribute to more traffic. CommentLuv takes it one step further. This plugin will visit the site of the “comment author” while he types his comment and will retrieve a selection of his last blog posts, tweets or digg submissions, which he can choose from to include at the bottom of his comment when he clicks submit.

It’s a very powerful tool for building any blogger’s community. If you are interested in installing CommentLuv and seeing the benefits unfold before your very eyes, click here. If you want to try it out, leave a comment below.

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http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/ JR @ Internet Marketing

I completely agree with you. I use comment Luv on several of my blogs and it is really great for driving commenters, readers and to be part of the blogging community.

It has been a big part of getting me lots of loyal readers who make great comments to help to build up my blog.
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

I’m very happy to hear that you and so many other people have also found CommentLuv to be incredibly helpful and beneficial. Happy Holidays!

http://www.bangaloreforex.com Jennifer

Commentluv continues to expand it’s usefulness, All great innovations to make blogging an easier and more effective medium. Hat’s off to the developers! And Thankyou so much for sharing the “luv” amongst us bloggers. Plus your site is a great niche in my opinion. I’m sure you are doing very well.

http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Yeah, it’s such a simple idea and yet the developers were very smart to come up with it. Your welcome, sharing the “luv” is a must as a blogger Thanks, my blog is definitely doing better and better!

http://gregspace.com Greg Anderson

Hey Ben thanks for sharing this it seems like a great idea and I’ll try it on my blog
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Your welcome! I hope to see it on your blog soon

http://www.petshopboxstudio.com/blog/ Kuswanto

I love commentLuv. Now it’s one of essential WordPress plugin for my project.

Started using it on my new blog.
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

So do I now! It’s definitely one of the most important plugins to have on your blog. Good luck!

http://digitivity.org The Digital Life & Tools Blog

Hello Ben.

I came here via Google and have subscribed to your feed.

It’s great to see you’ve gained such knowledge about the Web and social networking at such a young age.

My technology blog is now also CommentLuv enabled. Be sure to visit:

http://digitivity.org

I think CommentLuv, and other related plugins, follow the general principal of the Golden Rule. You watch my cat one day, and I water your petunias some other day when you’re gone. You come to my blog and comment, and I give you a link back.

Bloggers that don’t even want to give a link back are, in my opinion, self-centered.
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Hi,

That’s great to hear, I will definitely check out your blog. I agree for sure, Commentluv really does show that you are thinking about others.

Ruben@AutoShipping

Great Idea on CommentLuv , Whats your take on KeywordLuv . it allows commentators to post their name as (in example) Ruben@AutoShipping but it will Show Ruben from Auto Shipping (linked).
It works pretty good as well

http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Thanks, I’ve never looked into Keyword Luv seriously, thanks for explaining how it works I’ll definitely check it out.

http://www.guidegoods.blogspot.com Ed

i always have comment luv enabled, free traffic is great
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Good for you! Yeah it basically is free traffic

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comment luv is great plugin for commenter

http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Yes it is, it benefits commentators so much, which is why I highly recommend that you install it.

http://www.bloggingtips.co.in Blogging Tips

Yes, ComLuv is very important.I am using Intense Debate comment system.As soon as comluv feature was added in intense debate I activated it on my blog.
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Oh really, I didn’t know it was integrated with Intense Debate. Glad to hear you have it.

Paul Lear@get free traffic

Hi,

Thanks for this great post mate, I’ve been using Comluv for a while and I think it has increased traffic to my blog.

I’ll be sure to stop by here again soon, keep up the good work.

Take care,

Paul

http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Hey,

Your very welcome. I’m happy that it’s also helped you out. Hope to see you here again.

Best regards.

Paul Lear@get free traffic

Hi,

Thanks for this great post mate, I’ve been using Comluv for a while and I think it has increased traffic to my blog.

I’ll be sure to stop by here again soon, keep up the good work.

Take care,

Paul

PS-
Sorry for re-post, my comluv thing didn’t seem to work the first time, probably cos my internet connection went down during typing.
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Hey,

Your very welcome. I’m happy that it’s also helped you out. Hope to see you here again.

Best regards.

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BBKing

I just started using Commentluv. Terrific, Thanks

http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Enjoy! It’s the best plugin without a doubt.

http://howcaniearnmoremoney.com Lynnette@Internet Marketing

I just discovered CommentLuv a couple of days ago, and put it on my site. It seems really cool.
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Well you should definitely keep it. It’s benefited me in so many different ways.

camerabags

I use commentluv but lately to many bots have been posting. I like for people to promote their sites but hate the bots. all of them have been caught by the spam folder but it is still aggravating.

http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Well you’re not the only one. Luckily, for me it also all goes to spam. Believe me, it’s still worth it.

http://www.simonbyholm.com Simon

I have been thinking about getting commentluv but didn’t really get the point.

Getting more intelligent comment would be fine BUT I’m wondering…

Do you get more comment spam when you have comment luv enabled than before?

Simon
.-= Simon´s last blog post: Jiggling the Web for Nearly Instant Search Engine Rankings =-.

http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

The point is that it offers an incentive for other people to leave comments, a link to their latest blog post.

Yes you do get way more spam, but if you have Askimet installed it will all get filtered.

Best regards.

http://www.simonbyholm.com Simon

Thanks for the heads up. I didn’t have Akismet activated for some reason. Lets see now if it gets better.
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Oh you should definitely activate it. Good luck!

http://themikemonty.com Michael Montgomery

Wish I could use it, for some reason it doesn’t want to work with Disqus? :/
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

That’s possible. I’m pretty sure that it works with Intense Debate though. Usually it works better with your theme’s original commenting system.

http://blog.plwebdesign.dk Per Lund

Great tip Ben. Thanks alot.
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Thanks, good luck!

http://best24-7bowwow-meowsite.info/ mary

Comment luv is truly a win win situation!
Thanks
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

For sure. No problem

http://internetmarketingcoachingyear.com Internet Marketing Coaching

hi Ben

I notice that most of the comments here are from people in the internet marketing niche. Is this plug-in effective outside of that? It seems to me that most non IM people wouldn’t understand the attraction of it.

Also, I notice that you comment on each comment. Is that a deliberate tactic to balance the outgoing links or are you just being super friendly ?
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Hi,

I wouldn’t say that most people here are into internet marketing, its more a balance of entrepreneurs, bloggers, marketers etc.

I reply to each comment not to balance each outgoing link rather to accommodate a community and have more commentators.

http://brendanwenzel.net Brendan

I’ve been pondering this move to leave Disqus and go back to my native commenting system to add plug ins like ComLuv. Thanks for providing your take on the subject.
.-= Brendan´s last blog post: Justin McCullough’s Twitter Ebook Project =-.

http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Yeah I made that move also, was so worth it. Just look how many comments I’ve received on this post alone.

http://www.portland-bill.com rob sellen@portland bill

Hey Ben, my first time on this site and I decided to make this post the first to comment on.

I can’t believe what a great blog you got here, for a 16 year old, you sure got your head screwed on well.

I say that, being a dad, I have two sons, 17 and 15 year old…

Great blog, great mindset you have.

As for the commentluv, I think it’s one of the best things to happen to blogs in the last couple of years, though I was a bit late to it with mine, I would now say, it’s one of the key plug ins.
.-= rob sellen@portland bill´s last blog post: Commentluv, more than links, comments, traffic, and why you should use it =-.

http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Hey, thanks so much Rob! I really appreciate your kind words I might have to agree with you, it really made a huge impact on my blog.

http://www.portland-bill.com rob sellen@portland bill

Keep up the good work mate, I can see you will go far with this in life, if only we had this opportunity at your age!

Make the most of it eh, you will be a millionaire by 30!

Yeah, the proof of commentluv being great is right here with this post, not to mention the fact on my own blog since moving to WPress, the post about commentluv is the most commented on, I think you could say that about the many blogs who have written about it.

Good stuff Ben, tip my hat off to ya.
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Thanks! By 30? I was hoping more by 20

This post shows how effective CommentLuv truly is, after posting this months ago I’m still receiving more and more comments each day.

Thanks again for your kind words Rob.

http://www.portland-bill.com rob sellen@portland bill

20 is even better, with that kind of attitude, you could very well do it.
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Basheet

Hi !
I totally agree, i personnally use commentluv.
Why ? It gets more people to comment, and to participate.
Of course, there are more “nice article !” comments, but lol, you gotta expect that
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Hey,
Yeah definitely. I hate it when people leave comments just for that, but what can you do, its impossible to avoid.
BLoG kiTa

You are absolutely right! My blog is using this plugin too

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venkat

well, i’ve using commentluv even before i posted a single post. This allowed to get over 20 comments for the first post it self.
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Thats great, it just proves how valuable CommentLuv is…

venkat

indeed.

http://www.onelifenofear.com Entrepreneur Blog

I recently installed CommentLuv and found that my spam count went way up….. I still have it enabled though. I think if people take the time to comment they should get some ‘luv’ out of it.
.-= Entrepreneur Blog´s last blog post: New Regulations May Hurt Start-Ups =-.

http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

That’s very possible, spam for sure goes up but so do real comments…

http://www.teenbusinessforum.com Jack

How do you determine what’s a real comment and what’s spam? How much time do you go spend moderating over the comments? Wow, this post got over 120 comments… insane!
.-= Jack´s last blog post: How To Start A Business With No Money: Freelance Writer =-.

http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Well Askimet does that for me. I look through the filter sometimes, but usually its very accurate. Yeah people keep on commenting on this post nonstop!

http://www.fogartylaw.ca Andrew Fogarty

After reading this post, I decided to enable CommentLuv on all of my websites. Thanks!
.-= Andrew Fogarty´s last blog post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-05 =-.

http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Thats great to hear, you should start seeing the results soon.
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I have not started a blog yet but am in the process of setting up one. Will definitely enable this feature.

http://ideas-to-make-money-online-from-home.blogspot.com Marcus

I also just installed comment love on my site. But your site seems to be nofollow, so the benefit is to you and the commenter.
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http://ben-lang.com Ben Lang

Great, enjoy Marcus!

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