Some Random Dude

If you are looking to increase the number of people who post to your blog you could try two things:

#1 – Implement the “Top Commentators” plugin
#2 – Remove the “nofollow” tag to commenter names

As a warning, don’t do this unless you have the akismet anti-spam plug-in activated, otherwise you’ll get inundated with spam. This is especially true of the second option. Now that I think about it, don’t remove the nofollow tag.

Just my two cents :-)

Charles

agree with vending help.
anyway..commentluv is a good start.
you should try keywordluv as well.. (if you disabled the nofollow)

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This sounds quite bizarre but I swear it works! Another method to get comments is the following:

1) make up a few fake comments initially (ie: the first 2/3) This actually entices people to then comment once they see that others are contributing. It’s like the rent-a-crowd theory – you have to have a few people at the venue, in order to get others to join in and stay at the party.

I will encourage all to make sure that you can control spam before installing commetluv.

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I am looking for ways to increase comment collaboration on my site and I have seen this CommentLuv plugin on other sites. Do you find your tests were successful? Did it help improve communication?

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Ah yes, CommentLuv indeed. Perhaps I should add this to my blog? … Not sure really, I’m looking for real people to post comments, not bloggers. … HA! that was funny, no? OK maybe not. it is late. Anyhoo I do enjoy randomness. I’m also some random dude.

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I have installed commentluv on my blog months ago, in an attempt to improve communication with my readers, but I also installed the do-follow and top commentators plugin so I can´t really tell whether the commentluv itself made a big change. Even if it would not make a big change, I would still keep the commentluv plugin because I really like using it myself, giving me a quick look at where my readers and commentators are coming from and what they are writing about ;)

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Have you found an increase in commenters since installing the plugin?

You know, the type that seem to be googling the phrase “commentLuv” and then just leaving a comment?

:)

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Thanks for the comments everyone – my apologies for not replying until now.

Helper of Venders – Thanks for the advice, I’ll pop in that other plugin into Wordpress and see how it works out. I have manual moderation of all comments + Akismet, so no spam will “slip through”. :)

Mr. Elms – Wow, there’s a keywordluv plugin as well? So much love/luv going around in the Wordpress world nowadays. I’ll be checking that out as well.

Camps Bay – Not a bad idea. My biggest commenter on this blog had stopped commenting as frequently because my site was crashing her browser. I’ve made some changes which (hopefully) has alleviated that situation, so we’ll see if comments go up again. Really good thoughts.

Junior – Funny enough, I haven’t ran into spam bombs yet… Fingers crossed.

Peter – Well, the amount of comments have gone up a bit, although my articles have admittedly been a little lack-luster for the past few months. I truly think that has a tremendous amount to do with lower comment counts. However, from what I’ve noticed, if all my posts were about CommentLuv, I would be A-OK.

Mr. Music – Hey man, some of my best comments come from fellow bloggers. And you may be some random dude, but I am the some random dude. ;)

Mirjam – Really good advice. No matter how the CommentLuv plugin affects my comment count, I am going to keep it. Giving a linkback to people who take the time to comment here is the least I can do.

Jamie – You know, it’s really funny – some of my most commented posts were those that took the least time and brainpower. I have worked on some involved projects that get little more than an acknowledgment and others where I get far more participation than I would have expected. This whole blogging thing is as fascinating as it is mysterious.

All that said, I refuse to change my format to get more comments. I will definitely adapt it, but I am not going to write specifically to get comments. Maybe that is being stubborn, but that is the beauty of having your own blog and not depending on it to put food on the table. :)

Ironically, the one thing all big bloggers tell you is to be responsive to comments/commenters in order to give them a reason to come back. I obviously got a big F in this instance…

It’s always good thing to install plugin like akismet.

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is there a commentluv for bloggers? i removed the no follow already

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I think this is one of the best or if not the best plugin created for wordpress at the moment.

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I love the Commentluv concept (and it’s ease of implementation). Definitely a top Wordpress plugin!

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CommentLuv do a lot of nice things even with nofollow tag.

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Commentluv is a great way to reward your readers for taking the time to comment.

Keep up the good work

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I’m new to blogging, but CommentLuv seems like an excellent idea. It both encourages commenters (spammers can still be moderated) and also keeps commenters’ anchor text clean, and rewards them with an extra back link.

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I’ve been getting a huge amount of spam through since enabling comment luv & also the top commenter’s plugin :-/

I guess they’re good if you have the time to moderate everything.

I am really loving Keywordluv – I think it’s a great plugin. About time webmasters and bloggers acknowledged that fact that people comment on blogs for backlinks. :)

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I have just install CommentLuv too. It;s great

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I really like the idea of comment luv and it sounds so simple to install (for wordpress) however here is the question is there something like this for blogger or do i have to change the template in blogger?

Thanks for the info

G

Just started using the luv… i suppose you need traffic before comments start pouring in?

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The thing I like most about CommentLuv is that it is a nice quiet way for you to let your readers advertise their own blogs. I’ve gotten many of my own readers through CommentLuv — and I hope to pass along the good Karma. I think I’m going to have to use Camps Bay idea and start posting my own comments to get the ball rolling!

~Graham

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Nice post

CommentLuv is a great must have plugin that I would have used together with keywordluv if it just worked out. Since it doesn’t want to work out like that, I have to go with having a DoFollow commentlyv blog.

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CommentLuv does definitely increase the comments and the traffic to articles…
Great article or as we say in Austria:- endlich einmal ein lesenswerter Artikel!

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How much system resource is this plugin uses. How does it gets the latest posts?

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CommentLuv Plus DoFollow = Unlimited Link Love
commentLuv is a great way to encourage people to leave comments. Is there any workaround through which I can have commentluv enabled in blogger?

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CommentLuv is a great plug in, but my favorite is KeywordLuv. I have a blog that I am working on, and I feel both (they need to be used together), really enhance my blog, and the blogging community.

Great work implementing CommentLuv. I have been using it on my blog, along with the DoFollow plugin for awhile now. It really helps give readers an incentive to leave some feedback, plus it rewards those that do.

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Thanks for knowledge about DoFollow plugin and i would really like to get something with a similar look to yours. I guess they’re good if you have the time to moderate everything.Thanks

Really nice site. I’m adding your RSS so I can come back often. I’ve also implemented Commentluv.

Hey, thanks for the blog post, but can you tell me what’s this theme you’re using in your blog? Thanks in advance, Pete