DISQUS & CommentLuv
August 20, 2008 By: almostgotit Category: CommentLuv, DISQUS, Uncategorized, blog comments, blogging, blogs, comments, copyright, humor, linking, readership, review, reviewsQ. What do bloggers want more than anything else?
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 A. NO, no, and no: none of the above, silly people.Â
- Aint gonna happen — that’s why we need a REAL job, folks;
- Dream On
- Online sex?? That is (almost) as pitiful as the people who are still Googling my blog to find out “how to sell cocaine.”
If you will all join me back here in the real world, please:
Bloggers want more readers (and more comments,) of course.
One of the best ways to increase reader participation (=comments) is to give readers something juicy in return.Â
DISQUS (pronounced “discuss”) is a blog plug-in that encourages readers to leave comments by awarding them with much more exposure of their own. Readers who comment on DISQUS-enabled blogs can track and archive their own comments all in one place, where they can also edit or even republish them.  Moreover, a reader’s DISQUS profile “follows” him or her from blog to blog, allowing other readers to click through to see his or her other DISQUS blog comments, as well as to his or her own blog or blogs.
CommentLuv is another comment plug-in that has attracted a lot of bloggy attention. This utility automatically visits each commentor’s feed and embeds a link to the commentor’s latest blog post whenever s/he comments. This, in turn, attracts readers to a commentor’s own blog while also building upon the latter’s own Technorati blog “authority” and Google-ability.
I’ve not yet had time to adopt either of these plug-ins, but would love to hear from any readers who have. Have they made a difference on your blog?
Possibly-helpful links:
- A list of 100 blogs using CommentLuv (go get yourself some LinkyLuv right now!)
- Interesting discussion on DISQUS: who should own the rights to your comments: you or the blog where you’ve left them? ( Copyright protocols and blogging continue to evolve!)
August 20th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Hmmm, this is interesting. Let me know if you try any of this. You’re right, bloggers thrive on the comment love. It’s a drug!
August 20th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I’ve just started using Disqus and like it a lot so far. (It looks like you were able to solve your problem of not having it link back to your site when you left a comment — let me know if you’re still having trouble though.) One thing I really like it that it’s easier to let people subscribe to comments left on a particular post, which earlier had been hard to do in blogger if the person doesn’t have a gmail address.
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:46 am
Thanks for these new resources. I will check them out for sure.
Comments mean that someone is actually reading and so it makes me not want to disappoint them when they come back next time.
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I want The Donald’s hat.
August 24th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Okay, I take back what I said earlier. I’ve started to have trouble with Disqus (certain features not working the way they were set to work), and I’m switching back to Blogger’s comment feature.
March 10th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Comments are indeed a golden thing, and commentluv is an awesome wordpress plugin that I’ve utilized on a number of my sites as well. It’s a great reward for visitors who take the time to leave legit comments.
May 19th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
“One of the best ways” – I agree 100%.
This is a good method. I really re-visit sites that use it.
But, only if they are dofollow.
May 19th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Why are your comments NO follow?
June 9th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Yeah!
Build a global profile, or comment blog, to collect and show off what you’re saying .
June 30th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
I’ve been running CommentLuv for a while and been looking to use Disqus or another commenting system like Intense Debate to expand the accesibility..
have you tried combining them?
March 25th, 2010 at 9:55 am
I love DISQUS and have noticed my comments going up quite a bit. I also think it is better than ASKIMET for filtering spam, and allowing people to log in to comment with their Facebook and Twitter accounts is a nice touch.
My biggest gripe is that CommentLuv and Disqus won’t play together nicely and the developer of CommentLuv seems quite content to leave it that way. It is a shame because a combo of the two would be amazing…maybe DISQUS can look at adding their own feed searching utility, making CommentLUv obsolete.