Some Interesting Things I Found About CommentLuv

I was over at a new blog I’m following yesterday and when I went to make a comment I realized commentluv had been pulling in the same blog post for a really long time. I started clicking stuff and realized you could actually sign your blog up at commentluv and then it would show 10 posts for you to choose from.

That’s pretty cool. It was not easy to figure out how to do it, some links on the site are broken, but I finally did it.

Here’s how it went:

1. Go to the site

2. Click the button that says “get it here”

It will take you to a sign up page. It will offer to make you a blog ~ I didn’t bother ~ they had some pretty distinct TOS about creating blogs for linking and affiliate products lol ~ I just clicked “just give me a username”.

3. Create your username and password

That will create an account here. You’ll receive a confirmation email you have to click the link in.

4. Add your blog url.

Go to the members tab and then you’ll see “register your url”

5. A box will open up that looks like you can fill in ~ but you can’t. You have to click the little edit button right at the bottom of  the box, then it will open a space to fill in your url and the rest of the information about your site ie. keywords, description etc.

That’s it, now you’ll find when you’re commenting on a site with commentluv you can click the little icon and 10 posts will appear, you can choose which one you would like to appear in your comment.

Finding commentluv blogs

I know I sent you to that great tutorial on how to find commentluv and keywordluv blogs but this is pretty cool. There is actually a search feature on this site!!

You can search all the posts on commentluv blogs for the last 7 days by keyword!

Yep! Just put your keyword in the seach box and it will bring up related blog posts and they will all be using commentluv!!

I know I don’t need to tell you ~ well who knows ~ maybe I do. Write useful, content rich comments please. Your comment will NOT get published if it just says “great post”. Really. Truly. I know what I’m talking about.

Just for giggles ~ here’s some of the recent comments that have not been published on my blog.

Great post!  You stirred an ongoing dialog with your helpful insights on commenting on blogs, and noted the benefit of adding backlinks in comments, and you also shared the concept of the importance of building relationships with your comments.  Good stuff!!  Bringing a better awareness of the benefits of social media.
I also believe quality comments are more important than quantity.
Here at <a href=”removed by Jackie”</a>, that is one of the concepts we share with local, small business owners while encouraging them to start a blog about helpful, interesting topics on their website.
Thank you.

I do not need a recap of my post ~ really I don’t. If you think quality comments are important then why not write them? This person thought he was writing a quality comment but he’s actually added nothing but his own link to the conversation (and there’s a place for that, and it’s not in the comment itself)

“Great Post , Thank YOu”

“Hey mate. I don’t read many blogs, but yours is of thefew I read.Have a superb day!”

“Really awesome page you got there. Some of your posts really impressed me. I will definitely visit your blog again!”

These type of comments used to make me feel good ~ back before there was actual learning and conversation going on here lol ~ then I realized they are all for one post (that I wrote a long time ago) that ranks well in the SERPS.

Thank you ,, Nice Post, Making money using Ebooks is a good choice :)

Of course the link she was promoting lead directly to a site about making money with ebooks and it was posted on one of the “to do” list posts ~ so it was a completely irrelevant comment.

are these just for moms or would they also be useful to a dad (i.e me)

Another inane comment on that popular well ranked post ~ the url promoted get your ex back. Can you not read and look to see if there are resources you can use on this list?

I don’t mean to seem mean ~ but for the longest time I really thought these people were asking sincere questions, and really liked the site, my writing, etc.

It took me a while to realize that the really bad comments generally come from a few posts ~ and they end up being very similar comments, if not the exact same comment across the board.

These spam kind of comments ~ even if they seem sincere are not something I want on my blog. I just want you to be aware, not only of the type of comments you’re making, but the type of comments you’re allowing to pass through on you blog.

In the beginning, it may seem that any comment is a good comment, but that can’t be further from the truth. Here’s the truth as I’ve seen it happen on quite a few of my blogs.

If you let in 1 or 2 spam comments ~ even it if doesn’t really look like spam, you will be inundated with spam like comments. I don’t know if there’s a community somewhere where people go and say ~ “hey this sucker will let you post crap on their blog ~ go there now!!” But that’s what it has seemed like with a couple sites where I made that mistake.

Remember, make sure you’re adding to the conversation, and if the comments coming to your blog aren’t doing that ~ then don’t post them.

Ok, wow ~ this post went in a totally different direction than I anticipated. I was just excited to share a couple new ways to find some cool blogs ~ with the perk of commentluv attached.  Remember, if you find a cool blog in your niche from the commentluv search thing add it to your RSS so you can visit regularly and become part of the community.  :)

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I installed CommentLuv and will run it for a while. I think the idea behind that plugin is great, the readers only have to know about the enabled CommentLuv plugin, when they come to your site.

If you think quality comments are important then why not write them? This person thought he was writing a quality comment but he’s actually added nothing but his own link to the conversation.

I'm having hardtime on moderating spam comments.. could you help me with your techniques?

I have no technique :) Make sure you have akismet running. I then have comments that aren't caught in akismet come to my email where I look at them and delete/publish depending on the quality. I also have comments set to not publish comments until someone has 1 published comment. That way first time commentors don't get published, it's a trade off ~ community vs. spam. But that's what I've come up with so far.

Love the way how you clearly explained how commentluv pulls out the same blog post every time and how you could actually sign your blog up with commentluv to show 10 posts that you could actually choose from. Thanks!

Didn't know how that was possible. Commentluv surely has more benefits that you could actually see. Good article very informative!

Jackie

This is another very informative and is a big help to me.I have made lenses but have not no traffic.Well, because i have not really been optimizing them. From you every posts,i am learning something new everyday and am very thankful for all your generosity.I am started some traffic coming in following your post.It is not many but i see a number of traffic beside my lense. Thanks a million again.I do appreciate your generosity.

Jackie I have been following you here and on your squidoocash site. I absolutely love the information you are willing to give away for nothing in return. You are among a small group of internet marketers that I read on a daily basis.

As far as article marketing, do you suggest writing one article, spinning it several times and submitting each one to a different site, or would you recommend doing this with more than one article? Or would you suggest something completely different?

It depends on what you're trying to do with your article marketing, the WHY of it leads to the "how" of it. I handle article marketing differently depending on what you want to accomplish with your articles.

Jackie,

Thank you for explaining the benefits of Comment Luv and how to sign up for a username. I wondered how my blog post was chosen, so I appreciate finding the answer in your post. (This is my first post after registering with them.) I also see Comment Luv has a place to add default links with main keywords (that's the next step on my list).

Best,
Jennifer
.-= JenniferAkers@articlemarketing´s last blog ..Article Marketing Questions – What is Article Marketing? (Nice to Begin With the Basics) =-.

That's really interesting Craig ~ I don't get that much spam that I have to manually delete. Maybe a few comments a day. I have never had to allow HOURS for comments.

I understand this issue better than anybody. I have been traumatized with the amount of manual spam I received from offshore link builders when I had keywordluv on of my blogs. For the bots, akismet and captcha codes were tough to break. Thanks to them. But what is up with the manual spammers. They clear the captcha easily and dig blogs which has keywordluv using a magical search phrase in google. I have decided on some strategies which I would be sharing in the near future on how to avoid manual spam. If this clicks I am sure it will be lot helpful. What I have also understood is that spam is viral. Once you accidentally let a comment to slip in, you will be flooded with their likelihoods. Hence I personally allot few hours on my schedule exclusively for comment moderation.
.-= Craig@Car Rental Auckland´s last blog ..Rugby World Cup Car Rentals =-.

I could not agree more you need to at least check the comment and see where the link leads some links can hurt your web site who wants to be linked to spam or even worst I am in the process of installing Capta on my sites

I honestly hadn't been paying attention to it until you mentioned it. Hmm... well now I have to go look around the web at my comments on blogs from the last two weeks and see what's showing!

Yours is one of VERY FEW I comment on without Commentluv installed...for now. lol ;)

wow! in-order for us to figure it out and easy to understand. And to know more what is Internet marketing thanks for the tips i will share it to my family and Friends. more power to your site!!!
:-)

Jackie, your sample comments are very familiar to me and all the blog owners out there. You can eradicate bot spam using captcha, but manual spam by offshore linkbuilders are the biggest challenge. They easily slip through the system and I find it hard to moderate. I am tired of removing those comments from my blog. Despite marking them as spam, akismet is not able to protect the website from such vulnerable spammers. I dont know what to do...

Regards,
Alan Rosson

Don't give up on Akismet, they're getting smarter daily. I find hundreds of these "intelligent spams" in there all the time. :)

Hey Jackie - great info! The only comments I've gotten on my blog are similar to those you have posted. Glad to see that we all suffer from the invaluable comment problem. I'm looking forward to getting some quality comments once I gain some authority.

Can't wait to check out the CommentLuv plugin! Happy Valentines Day!

Tina

Hi Jackie. I have just done as suggested above and made my first comment on a travel blog. Brilliant. Thank you for this and especially for the very clear instructions!

Suzi

Seems like a pretty reasonable ramble. Any time I suggest people start leaving comments I like to remind them that quality matters too. I don't like to think that people might get the idea from me that quantity is all that matters.

(Resisting temptation to summarize the post and leave random link to someone else's site)

Jackie,

I hear exactly what you are saying. It's like you were writing in an earlier blog about making sure that when you comment on other people's blogs that you are giving quality posts -vs- going for sheer quantity. Now I completely understand exactly what you are talking about.

I have yet to receive any comments on any of my blogs on my niche site - but when I do I will take care to moderate them carefully as not to encourage random posts for backlinks.

I do want you to know that you have been an invaluable source of knowledge and support for me and I appreciate you and all the information that you share for free with us. I think that some people forget that sometimes.

Again - my appreciation and gratitude.
Julie

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