CommentLuv Plus DoFollow Equal Unlimited Link Love
Link building is a never ending process for the bloggers and everyone knows that the more incoming links we get – better we rank in SERP’s and more traffic we get. I have already previously wrote about CommentLuv plugin that help you do just that and what perhaps even better – do it by simply commenting on other blogs!
In this post I will discuss several important aspects to get it just right in order to receive greatest benefits not only in form of traffic but also getting DoFollow links to the deeper internal pages of your blog. I promise not to leave a stone unturned and get you all the info you need!
The entire concept is EXTREMELY simple – contribute quality comments to other blogs and in return get valuable links to your internal pages, in many cases with full PR juice!
But in order to implement the concept effectively it will require several things to be in place.
1. Install CommentLuv plugin (optional)
Not required by any means but I recommend you do install it. What CommentLuv does is that it parses the URL of the commenter, locates the feed and then posts last title from the commenter blog at the end of comment. Very effective way to increase participation on your blog by providing value to your commenters.
But the benefits of the plugin are limited to title if you are using default WordPress installation as it adds “nofollow” attributes to all links and No PR Juice is passed alone. I’m not going to get into DoFollow debate but just state that I’m strong believer in sharing PR with good commenters and yet, protecting my blog from crap comments. And I do that by using LuciaLinkyLove plugin that allows me to share Link PR with commenters based on predefined settings.
Now, that optional step will enhance your own blog but will not do much in getting incoming links!
2. Modify Your FeedBurner Account
As mentioned above – CommentLuv parses the RSS Feed and then gets the last post and provides link to it. Problem is – if you are using FeedBurner redirect – your title gets linked to the FeedBurner rss link and provides you with No SEO benefits. For the longest time I was tryig to figure out how to fix the problem until a little while back I have run into post that explained a very simple fix. Sorry, since then I lost the source but here is how you can fix it.
- Login into your FeedBurner account.
- Click on the Feed you want to edit
- Under Analyze->FeedBurner Stats PRO uncheck “item link clicks”. What this will do – it will disable the tracking of the clicks on your RSS Feed title and turn the titles into direct links to your blog post (permalinks). See below
This will cost you in terms of ability to know how many clicks your feed generated but common! What is more important – some stats or link love?!
Because it will also effectively make your last post title from the comment left on the blog with CommentLuv plugin support linked to permalink on your blog. Deep Link! And if that blog also supports DoFollow – superb way to get One Way Link!
Here are couple examples: 1st linked to feedburner url and second to the Author’s blog, which one would you like?
3. Locate Blogs With CommentLuv Support
While I know all about the importance of getting incoming links from blogs with similar topic or perhaps even from posts that have your target keywords – I always ask myself a question:
- Would I refuse the opportunity to get a Free backlink To One Of My Deeper pages?
I think Not! And the easiest way to do it is by locating blogs that have support for CommentLuv. If some of them also support DoFollow – I consider myself hitting a gold mine and just have to go careful about mining it! Meaning – contribute the quality comments!
But first, lets get some blogs…
And no, I will not list any here. God knows there are already number of lists available that list blogs with CommentLuv Support. All you need to do is visit Google and do a search for a phrase: commentluv blogs. Just like I have shown and you will get quite a few results! You can also try: comentluv dofollow
All you got left is go there and start commenting, or is it?!
4. Make Your Best Posts Linked!
Unless you have time to go through those lists and comment on blogs after every post you create to get backlinks – I recommend you consider this simple strategy.
- As you create posts for the week – pick one that will become the corner stone of content for that week.
- This step will depend on your publishing schedule – if you publish every day, skip one day after publishing this post and instead concentrate on going to blogs with CommentLuv support and making comments. Even better if you eventually create your own list of blogs that are related to yours and perhaps second with blogs that are not related to yours but support CommentLuv and have DoFollow attribute enabled!
- Do this at least once a week and you will see results.
And keep in mind – this strategy is based on busy schedule and only requires that you do the commenting on one specific day! Right after you publish your main post for the week and designed to maximize the results of that effort!
How Do You Determine if a Blog Is DoFollow or NoFollow?
I realize that not everyone might be versed in the concept explained here and provide simple visual representation of what it means.
Take for example my blog. As I have mentioned – my blog DoFollow attribute is controlled by Lucia Linky Love plugin, which will remove nofollow attribute from the link after 3 approved comments! This helps me battle the spam and rewards the regular commenters. See image below for an example with NoFollow:
That covers the nofolow and when you simply look at the source of the link on target blog and you see like the image below – you know you hit that gold mine of DoFollow!
So, all you have to do is locate some blogs that support CommentLuv and DoFollow and begin getting some Link Love!
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I had already use CommentLuv. LuciaLinkyLove plugin is what I should try next.
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It would be nice if it actually worked. So far out of the dozens of CommentLuv-enabled blogs I’ve posted to only one of them has correctly displayed a link back to one of my blog posts. I have the feed in the head section of my blog code and the item link clicks turned off in Feedburner so I know it isn’t a problem on my end.
See, even here it doesn’t work correctly. I just made a post and I don’t see it anywhere.
dclouds last blog post..no post because http://dcblog.net is banned/ignored from CommentLuv
@dcloud – here is secret for you – it is your blog fault that this plugin fails.
If you go to author’s page you will find an explanation – this plugin gos out to YOUR blog, attempts to read your RSS and get latest headline and then display it in comment. Because that action has to take place before your comment is posted and it has to fit within 30 sec which is default PHP script execution time on most host – plugin will only try to read your RSS fro some many seconds. I thinks its 15 but don’t quote me in it and if it fails- it aborts and simply posts your comment.
What I’m trying to say is that your blog is loading too slow (and my test have shown that it is) – plugin will NEVER (almost) will be able to get the last headline from your blog. It simply NEVER manages to actually read it.
So, the failure is your blog’s problem, not plugin.
Ok, so how do I fix that?
Doug C.s last blog post..no post because http://dcblog.net is banned/ignored from CommentLuv
Speed-up your blog.
Alex, thank you for giving me that information. I’ve passed that along to a few other people who have been having the same problem. Took me quite a while to get my blog design the way I wanted it so I’m a bit hesitant to start chopping at it just in favor of a plugin.
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Well it seems I managed to take off just enough, lol. Now it’s reading my blog posts anyway. Let’s see how long it lasts.
Thanks again for your help.
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Thanks! Evil FeedBurner stealing my links… my precious…
Hi..
Great post.. It would be great if FeedBurner was a bit easier to integrate and manage, especially when you handle email notifications of new posts.
I wanted to be abale to contact all my subscribers to tell them about a change of server that was happening, but FB wouldn’t allow me to send an email to them..
Anyway, I guess some of them go the last blog post and some made the move..
Ah.. the joys of the net…
Bruce
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Bruce you are right. Feedburner should have a way to email all subscribers..
But since feedburner already emails everyone when you create a new post you should just be able to write a post about a server move and everyone still gets it
Bruce,
Second option is to allow you readers subscribe for email via Aweber. Using blog broadcast is very simple and once you implement it – you have access to emailing your readers.
Alex
This is a great plugin — I’m wondering if this works with the new 2.6 version of WordPress?
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I have found that blogs that implement CL get back in two ways:
1) TONS more comments from its users
2) Lots of high quality links from things like the D-list
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Hi,
I installed the CommentLuv yesterday, but my last post linked to feedburer:(
Thanks body, I read this post and I fixed this.
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Interesting!
CommentLuv helps you reward your commentators by separating their name from their keywords in the link to their site. This gives them improved anchor text, which can help their site rank higher in the search engine results.
You can now leave a comment with your name as well as a keyword of your choice here and get a PR5 link back to your site! How cool is that? People pay big bucks for that and all you have to do is comment here.
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Hi,
I installed the CommentLuv yesterday on my personal blog and I have seen an increase in traffic. Having an article on DOfollow does send tons of traffic to ones site. Try it and see.
Thanks – Jerry
this is a really great resource for commentluv thanks!
I have updated the plugin and got a dedicated server for the remote script now and everything seems to be working ok (2 million comments processed in august!)
I’ll link to this post on the commentluv page…
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Thanks Andy for a great plugin and continues support. Unfortunately we see too often plugin developrs drop support for their creation and yours is one of those that benefit bloggers tremendously when used right
Thanks for your effort!
Alex