I noticed this on Catherine’s blog as well, and thought it would be a great way for commenters to get more referrals from their comments (or, I guess, less referrals if your headlines are terrible).

But for the blog author, does it invite empty comments from people who just want to let people know about their latest post? What has your experience been? (I guess I’m directing that question to Catherine, if she’s reading this.)

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It’s an interesting point. I think the pros outweigh the cons. I thought it was a good way of rewarding the people that regularly comment on my blog. I actually want to see their latest post too.

It could be abused with empty comments in time, but there are ways to combat that.

I’ve not seen it that widely yet, but I do hope it catches on and is indeed not abused with empty comments.

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Hi Barbara - I’m glad you’ve decided to try it. I love the plugin. It’s a brilliant way to reward vistors for their contributions.

Hunter - to answer your question - I don’t really think it has made much difference. Commentluv generally tends to benefit those who take the time to write creative headlines. And they are usually not the types who make pointless comments anyway. It really is worth checking it out.

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David’s comment interests me. Word must be spreading.

And do you know what? I’m about to check out David’s site because of his intriguing last post title! And his isn’t a frivolous comment.

Maybe though it will start getting spam comments as its popularity grows? Let’s hope it stays under ground - but I doubt it will!

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Hi

I definitely wasn’t spamming. Like I said, I found your post through a Google search of blogs for reviews of this plugin. The title of your blog is quite catchy too…

Just reading your About page, I have to admit I do vaguely remember Neil A stepping on the moon and making the biggest verbal typo in history, but the assassination of JFK is way before my time (well three years…)

db

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Hi David,

I just left your site, which I found quite interesting. I like your post on Social Bookmarking. You sure got some great reactions from your commenters.

Yes, my “about page”…it lets my readers know I’ve been around for awhile, seen a lot, and am always looking forward to learning more. I’m sure some will say….”What year was that?”

Thanks for your return visit. I knew you were not a spammer, as checked your website, (and a good one it is) prior to approving your comment.

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Almost related…

There’s another neat plugin called “Most Commented Posts”, it’s actually a widget that you can render in your sidebar, or wherever. What it does it display links to the most commented posts (surprisingly enough) on your site. Now, I’m not sure I’d leave something like that displayed permanently, but what I did for my science site (sciencebase.com) was to run it once set to max (actually I hacked it so it would display 20 not 10) and cut and paste the list of top commented posts into an all-new post of their own.

Add a bit of blurb telling readers that these are the most talked about posts and you’ve got a way of “leveraging” (actually I just mean using) your back catalog. Sciencebase has over 1200 archived posts so that’s a reasonable number to draw on.

Another fab tip from the desk of db

db

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Hi Barbara - typing is not too bad, but I can’t complete today’s post. Hopefully in the morning.

I’m not sure about comment love and SEO. I link out quite a lot anyway and I know that has hammered my Page rank. But, then the famous SEO people tell you how to increase your page rank in one breath, then say page rank doesn’t matter to the ranking of your site in the next.

It’s so confusing - and I still think content is what matters most. You can do all the SEO in the world, but if you don’t provide good content, nobody will come back.

I suck at SEO though. I have read a lot about it but, I find it so difficult to write for the search engines. And i still think the whole system is flawed.

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I use it on my blog, and it works well; however, when I leave comments on others blogs it has been leaving posts that I’ve written weeks ago. I’m not sure what that is about. I really haven’t had the time to follow up with Andy to see why this is happening. It is a great plugin.

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One reason I miss my Wordpress blog, but maybe someone nifty comes up with a Plugin that works on mine, combined with Wordpress

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Barbara,
It was a mystery to him also. I installed the plug in around three months ago. My posts, on other people’s blogs, started acting whacky about one month ago. However, everyone else who posts on my website are fine. It’s very odd. I’m just happy everyone else’s post are working fine on my blog.

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It has something to do with feedburner at times it adds additional characters to the feed. The plug in is supposed to redirect this info automatically but for some reason it’s not doing it. I have noticed that some others are experiencing the same issue.

I did notice that my feed doesn’t appear on your website. That has something to do with your hosting provider. I’ve noticed this on a few other websites.

Thanks for the concern.

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Hello Mike,

Welcome to my site. And, you’re welcome.

As you know I found your site, via Catherine’s.

CommentLuv does work good to show others what each commenter has posted, so I find that to be a great way of expanding our community.

I’m getting ready to do my upgrade to WP 2.3.2. Hopefully everything will work as it should, after the upgrade.

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I first noticed this plug in when I visited either your site or Catherine’s (and then found the others through the plug in). I think I am going to add this plug in on my site when I update the design (hopefully coming in a week or two…)

I have to agree with you completely on the usefulness of this plug in on finding other people’s blogs. Seeing the title really helps me decide on whether or not I want to visit.

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Thanks for teaching me. I had no idea it saved your comment in the sands of time :O

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I’ve used comment luv on my site for a few weeks and I’ve found that people really like using it. It helps drive traffic to similar sites in our sports niche. Great post!

Do you know of any other plug-ins that go with comment luv?

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Hi!

I found your blog while searching for plugins that I should use for my first blog. I like the comment luv one so I’ll find it for my site.

Do you or anyone else have any other plugin suggestions for my first site with wordpress?

I am trying to figure out brians comments, but don’t have much else.

Thanks! john

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Barbara,

THanks for the reply, I didn’t even look at the categories! Duh! I’ll read up on some of your posts, and thanks again!

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Hi MsGrass,

Welcome to the BWAB community.

You will enjoy the CommentLuv plugin.

I’m headed over to your site right now.

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Hi Jon,

Welcome to the BWAB community.

The CommentLuv plugin is great. It shows other readers what the commenters are writing about, and will often pique their interest enough to click on the link.

I think it’s a great way to build community.

I noticed you are linking to your guitar page. Do you also have a blog where you share your writings? If so, I’d like to check it out. Feel free to leave a link to it.

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Hi Chris,

It’s an easy plugin to install, and is great for community building.

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To the person who asked about plugins - I like Keyword Luv, which helps your commentators both by increasing their traffic and by helping their SEO. It’s a pretty valuable tool, and I think my commentators are fans…

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Thanks Barbara - I’ve just installed CommentLuv. So am awaiting my first “luvved” comment! I thought it was groovy when I saw it working on other people’s blogs, but did not realize till Chris’s article that it was simply a plugin!
Cheers

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I have to agree with Lee, the KeywordLuv plugin is a great one to add in conjunction with Commentluv. A surefire combo that should boost one’s comments.

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Thank you for answering a burning question - I am excited about both the CommentLuv and the KeywordLuv plugin even before I really have tried them out on my brand new site. OK, I have installed commentluv allready but I still have to see it work

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I am just beginning my new site and was curious about this plugin. After searching Google I ran across your site. You really seem impressed with CommentLuv plug-in.

Have you noticed any increases in your traffic since implementing this plugin?

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I am going to seriously have to consider implementing this plug-in. Thanks for such a quick response. I was just surfing through your site. I am really impressed.

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I think commentluv is a great plugin
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CommentLuv is very good for driving traffic, to your commentors sites, particulary if the commented on blog has do follow enabled. KeywordLuv is even better for driving traffic. Both are great for the blog owner to get more comments.

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From discovering a couple new blogs from the CommentLuv links on MomGrind and here I’ve decided to add it to my blog as well. I use Drupal and I’m happy to say that there’s a Module available for it as well. Though it doesn’t default the checkbox to checked… so I had to tweak the code a little, but it works beautifully.

It’s a great idea that helps people find new blogs.

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Cool! I always though, well, maybe later but after this great review I’ll install it on my new German iPhone blog. Thanks

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Very cool plugin. I may have to put this on my blog, just still have some concerns about what it will do for my SEO

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So, how’s the plugin working out for you?

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CommentLuv is a fantastic plugin for blogs as everybody wins. Viewers comment because they get a little something for it. The blogger wins by growing content from all the commentary. Only other suggestion I would have is to be sure the NOFF plug-in is installed first to remove the ‘no-follow’ and to consider adding the awesome KeywordLuv plug-in to provide more flexibiity for anchor text instead of using a name like I did in this post! ;o)

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Hi Writer Dad,

It’s a great plugin, isn’t it.

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Hi Drunken Dragon,

Welcome to the BWAB community. Yes, the CommentLuv plugin does give back to our commenters. It’s a great way to show our appreciation, isn’t it?

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Hi Canadian Finance Guy,

The CommentLuv plugin is awesome. I haven’t heard of anything like it for Blogger, but hopefully they add it soon.

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Hi Blogging Queen,

Welcome to the BWAB community.

YES, this is a great plugin. My readers love it as it showcases their latest work.

BTW: I’ve been on your blog before. You’re doing a great job on educating your readers.

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Hi,

I’ve been using comment luv for a month now and am beginning to see a noticeable increase in traffic. I don’t know whether its because of the plug-in or other factors.

Who else has noticed an increase of traffic?

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Hi Synovate Paid Surveys,

Welcome to the BWAB community.

How does that work when people put their keywords in the name field? Does that create spammy looking comments vs someone using their own name?

Also, what is the advantage of using keywords in the name field? Is it an advantage to the blog author, or to the commenter?

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Thank you for the information on CommentLuv - gives me more reason to check it out. I’ve seen many that implement it; but haven’t heard a review, like yours, that shows its value.

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can i take script for my blogspot?

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It’s not surprising that posts with Commentluv will attract comments, especially if the post is about Commentluv.

A serious question, however…

Since there are so many comments on one post, does the link juice value to all of the commentators become diluted out?

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I use it and love it! I also think other people should use it and share the love! I have about 5 blogs and use it at three of them.

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Anyone know comment Luv blog list?
How to find a blog with comment luv support?

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Hi Taylor - Haha, You’ll have to read my “about” page to learn how the name originated.

Re: CommentLuv - I’ve had very little problems with spam, so yes, it is working great.

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I just googled Comment Luv and found your post. Thanks for the info! I’ve been seeing the plugin in use for a while and thought it was time I investigated. By the way, I just added you to my feed reader.

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I have heard about comment luv for some months ago, I also realized that this is very useful plugin yo recognize our new blog to public beside submit them into some lines of social bookmark. Thank you for the explanation and Thank you too for the other useful article

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Hi i think this is great plugin. i just installed in my personal blog and encourage visitor to leave comment . thanks for this artcile

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Hey there. I already use the commentluv plugin on my blog, and a few commenters have enjoyed the effects of it. I have yet to experience anyone else’s blog with the commentluv, until now. So, I am leaving this comment to say thanks for promoting such a cool and useful plugin, and to see how it actually works with my own blog

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Hi. I found your blog by doing a search on Comment Luv. I’ve been running into it from time to time for about a month and finally set it up on a couple of blogs yesterday. One really neat thing I noticed is that after I registered my site at Comment Luv, when I made a comment on another blog with CL, my little Bio Box popped up when my comment was hovered upon. I suppose that would be an additional perk for signing up w/CL and then posting comments.

Anyway, just my two cents. I’ve been trying to get a feel from reading CL threads as to whether or not it helps traffic at all. My blogs have pretty pathetic traffic right now, so any upturn should be easy to notice. Take care.

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Really useful information about this lovely plugin. Thanks for your post. Now I also use Comment Luv in my blogs and notice, that traffic is increasing step by step…

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I would say if your having a problem with spammers then you should use Bad Behavior (http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/), That sould help you keep the Spammers from abusing your CommentLuv and your site.

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Hey all

Yes, I’m up late. I am in the process of moving from blogger to wordpress. My site is http://www.divorcesaloon.com. (I’m a divorce lawyer in New York and I have a divorce blog. Yes, I know, how cliche). So I don’t have any plug ins yet. But I plan to get there.
Thanks for the info, though. So much to learn about blogging, it’s crazy.

Say, thanks for visiting my small biz site Barbara and leaving a comment. I was so thrilled to have my first comment on that site!!!

by Marion TD Lewis, Esq.
http://www.marionlewisesq.com (for a link to my blogs)

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Comment luv has to be one of the better ways to get new blog post some traffic. Some comments are do follow and others are not. The do follow ones will also help get the new post spidered faster most of the time.

I love it when a blog uses both comment luv and keyword luv. This way you get the best of both worlds.

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I also enabled nofollow and keywordluv. The main thing I don’t let get through are auto blog comments which are very obvious. Other than that I think this is a good movement and helps everyone.

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I just discovered this on someone else’s blog. I love the concept.

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Some blogs have no follow with keyword luv, i dont get the point of that! well i get the point that there is a lot of nonsence. but still.. !

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I’m a huge fan of CommentLuv and also KeywordLuv! Both work fantastically
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hello..nice post
i think this plugin is only for wordpress cms not for blogger platform..but anyway..thanks for share..

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From so many of the sites that I’ve visited, it sounds like commentluv is a great way to generate more traffic. I think it’s one of the cooler plugins available out there for bloggers.

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Thank you for the lesson. I was searching for “Comment Luv” and found your site. I’m starting to use it to drive traffic to my site. Hope I will be successful. More power to your blog!
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Thank you, I was doing a search on the luv plugin and came across your site. The information here on this site is just great it help me understand what the luv plugin really is about. So thank you very much.

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Thanks for great post, that will surely going to help for newbies like me. Keep posting great stuff.

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This plugin really helps. I had also installed it on my site.

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I’m thinking about adding CommentLuv to my site but have heard it can be a strain on your database. KeywordLuv seems to be a “lighter” application so I may try that one first.

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Thanks for this. sadly it is just for wordpress.. i’m using blogspot.

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Hey Barbara!

Using the comment luv plugin Rocks! I use it on all my niche sites and I recently started building feeder blogs in main topic categories to build a group of high PR sites. With comment/keyword luv added this helps these sites which I then use to pump up the Google juice for my other sites.

Love it!

Greg

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I’ve seen this plugin on a lot of other blogs and have wanted to put it on my sites for a while, but like you said, even if something sounds great, actually getting the motivation to hit the download button and the activate button in the plugin control panel for Wordpress, it takes a little bit. I finally did download and installed it and am waiting to see it’s magic. I think the plugin sounds great, as it encourages people to post more comments and initiate conversation because they are outrightly promoting their own blogs, websites by posting a comment on mine and I love that link love.

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Hi,
I recently used these word press blogs like commentluv and keywordluv for my blog.
These are fantastic and really increases the traffic on my blog.I think all the blog owners should use them and enjoy the good results.
Thanks.

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Thanks for sharing this information. I wish more people would go with dofollow. I think nofollow cheapens a lot of blogs etc.

ROFL at the barbecue analogie.

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I’ve been using KeywordLuv and CommentLuv and they’ve been great. Frankly, however, NoFollow and DoFollow confuse me. I think I need to study it more in depth.
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Hi,
wordpress provides us lot of plug-in but my favorite is commentluv because it gives an extra link to the commentator as reward and brings lot of the traffic to the blog.So win situation for the all.
Thanks for the information.

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Hi,
I use it on all my niche sites and I recently started building feeder blogs in main topic categories to build a group of high PR sites.Commentluv does get more traffic to both blogs. The owner gets more comments and commentors get a link to new post so both get more visitors.
Thanks.
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This plug-in definitely increased comments.
Thanks for sharing…….

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