DISQUS & CommentLuv
Q. What do bloggers want more than anything else?
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A. NO, no, and no: none of the above, silly people.
- 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.
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!)
