DoFollow, Keyword Luv and Comment Luv on WordPress
Do you have CommentLuv installed?
One of my favorite ways to find new blogs to read is by visiting other sites who have CommentLuv installed and clicking through to a post from someone else who has commented. Another reason why I like this particular plugin is because it gives the people commenting on my posts a way to link one of their recent posts to their comment.
If you sign up at their site you have the ability to link one of your last 10 blog posts when commenting on a site that has CommentLuv installed. There are other benefits of registering at their site as well….read all about it by visiting the site (and Andy is super nice too).
Keyword Luv
I’m not exactly sure how I found this plugin but it was definitely through another site that has it installed and I thought it was a great idea.
Now when you comment on my blog you can put in Your Name @ Your Keywords and that will show in the name field.
For example: if I comment on someone else’s blog with Keyword Luv installed I put in my name as: Michelle @ Your Virtual Assistant
Isn’t that fun? Take advantage Keyword Luv when you comment on my posts!
DoFollow
I’m all about sharing what I have so I recently made the decision to make my site “DoFollow” with the quick install of this plugin and added myself to these DoFollow Blog directories:
- DoFollow Blog Directory (though it’s somewhat difficult t find yourself once you are there)
- DoFollow Directory (this one is very easy to find yourself in)
So what does this all mean?
- I’m getting more visitors than I did in the past
- I’m getting more comments on my posts (and hope to get many, many more)
- I’m getting a bit more spam but Askimet still does a great job of catching a lot of it!
What this means for you – when you comment on my blog you get extra exposure and I’m fostering a reciprocal environment.
I’d love to hear of your experiences with any or all of these on your site.
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Twitter: GrowMap
January 19, 2010 at 11:52 am
I am thrilled that you are now using both CommentLuv and KeywordLuv. We are big fans of both and use them on all our blogs. I can come back and tell you where they are if you like.
Have you seen my dofollow lists and tools? That post stays in my Most Popular section all the time.
I have some links I want to send your way. I’m guessing virtual assistant would be a good phrase to link; however, if you will send me your preferred anchor text and pages I will use them whenever I link to your blog. (See the post I’ve featured in CommentLuv for details.)
Gail @ Social Media Marketing´s last blog ..Are You Playing Hide and Seek With Your Market?
Gail – you are just super, duper! I’ll look at your DoFollow lists and tools this weekend when I delve into the other stuff.
Virtual Assistant and / or Social Media Virtual Assistant would both be great anchor text phrases for me. Thanks so much for asking. I so appreciate that!
Twitter: GrowMap
March 4, 2010 at 4:10 am
I just wanted to pop into this post again to mention my new post about KeywordLuv that highlights some of my favorite dofollow CommentLuv KeywordLuv enabled blogs.
That KeywordLuv post (CommentLuv featured in this comment) also has some great information and links about CommentLuv.
Gail @ Support Small Businesses´s last blog ..KeywordLuv: How Using It Benefits Us All
Gail – I love that you are taking time out to keep me updated – I’ll be heading over to your post in a moment!
Comment love is great. Trying out keyword luv and Do Follow
Mark @ Mandala Life Media´s last blog ..Business Finds You on Twitter
Mark – I totally love CommentLuv. Once you install DF and KWL let me know what increase you see in traffic.
Thanks for the awesome post. I was just looking for some KeywordLuv blogs and happened to come across this one.
Justin@Learn WordPress´s last blog ..New Features Of WordPress 2.9
Justin – have you played with the search engine on the CL site yet? I haven’t but it looks pretty cool. Andy is always up to great things over there.
Twitter: cjbowker
January 19, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Michelle, once again you are promoting a community and following. I thank you for your help and advice and look forward to a lot more. I have struggled slightly with the nofollow / dofollow decision. Is there any downside to dofollow? Why doesn’t everyone do it?
CJ Bowker´s last blog ..Impressions of a Sales Book
CJ:
Nice to see you by here again! I was just telling Vance that I think a lot of people don’t know that WP installs as No Follow by default. When I was doing my research project it seemed that the ones that openly spoke up as to why they were against it was because of the increased amount of spam (which Askimet does a pretty decent job of grabbing). Other than not knowing and increased spam….maybe they just don’t want to share the love!
Twitter: vancesova
January 19, 2010 at 11:17 pm
Hi Michelle,
I use all the plug ins you mention in this post. Everything you say is true.
But for some reason I get to choose from only 5 posts to display through Comment Luv but it could have something to do with the settings.
If you know anything about that I’d appreciate your comment.
Keyword Luv is to love because it gives people the links they want exactly for their targeted keywords. How cool is that?
And do follow makes the above all valuable.
I don’t understand why some people have Comment Luv installed and yet fail to turn off no follow.
The Keyword Luv won’t work with the no follow on which is good.
Now I have to check your 2 lists of do follow.
And I also want to read your post on LinkedIn.
Vance
Vance@Get Blog Traffic Commenting´s last blog ..Get Blog Traffic Increase With Blog Comments
Vance – it’s possible that people are not aware that by default WordPress sets up the blog as DoFollow. I initially wasn’t aware of it until I was doing a research project for a client on DoFollow and that’s how it came to my attention. I should have mentioned that in my post actually – come to think of it.
Are you registered at CommentLuv with a profile on their site? I believe that’s all you have to do in order to be able to select from 10 recent posts. If not, hit up Andy over there. I emailed him once and he was great! He also has something available where you can buy credits to connect more than one blog to your CL profile so you can pick and chose which blogs you want to use in CL.
Twitter: vancesova
January 22, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Hi Michelle,
You’re right about that. Most people don’t know, at least initially.
But some know and like it that way and even choose not to respond to comments about it.
Some of them just don’t want to share I guess partly because they are misinformed.
They think that by giving a link they are losing points with Google.
It is a belief as misguided as the belief that if you link out to other sites you’ll lose something.
These things aren’t a zero sum game but hat’s what many seem to believe and act accordingly.
I’m registered at Comment Luv and with a profile.
I’ll do as you suggest and I’m sure it will get resolved.
At first I thought it could have something to do with my browser but I tried it with different computers and got the same result.
Vance
Vance@Increase Blog Traffic Commenting´s last blog ..Get Blog Traffic Increase With Blog Comments
Twitter: vancesova
February 11, 2010 at 10:05 am
Hi Michelle,
I just want to update you and your readers regarding
the problem I had with the CL only displaying the last 5 posts to choose from instead of 10.
It has been resolved.
Andy helped suggesting that I look at my WP settings.
I found that in Reading I had it set for only 5.
After changing the setting to 10 everything is working as it’s supposed to.
Vance
Vance@Learn Internet Marketing´s last blog ..Alex Jeffreys Marketing With Alex Las Vegas Workshop 2010
Vance – OH yeah!!!! Who would have thought that is what it was. Told you, Andy, is a great guy! Glad to hear you have 10 now like the rest of us!
I think keywordluv is also great as you get to coomunicate with a real person rather than a keyword! Makes it much more personal!
I just hate the spam that you get though!
Thank goodness for Askimet with it’s patrol on spam!
I only just added do-follow to my blog (with comment and keywordluv following soon, and already on a brand new blog I am getting quite a bit of SPAM. I have not installed askimet though – so thanks for the reminder!
Tom@Internet TV Software´s last blog ..Internet TV Software
Tom – def get Askimet, it does a pretty darn good job of catching the spam. Every once in awhile a legit comment will end up in there so I do suggest still peeking at what is caught in their “bin”.
Congrats on implementing the dofollow. I’m considering using commentluv on some of my blogs and Im interested in how it performs for you. Spam is obviously my major concern but then if it attracts alot of relevant discussion…
Joe
Joe – I think any tool that helps liven up or encourages discussion on the blog is well worth it. I’ve def seen an increase in comments (and I’m not huge like SITS girls or anything) since I’ve been using it.
Twitter: pnstlion
January 21, 2010 at 10:21 pm
Although my site is DoFollow, I never submitted it to those directories. Perhaps that can make it on my to-do list tomorrow.
Gabe – they are both pretty small but extra exposure never hurts, right?
CommentLuv is a great Pluging, thaks for the great infos
glaskörpertrübungen´s last blog ..Glaskörpertrübungen, eine Leidensgeschichte?
You are welcome. What language is your blog in?
my blog http://glaskoerpertruebungen.wordpress.com is in German
glaskörpertrübungen´s last blog ..Glaskörpertrübungen, eine Leidensgeschichte?
That would have been my guess but in the event I was wrong I didn’t want to look silly!
I’m a big fan of KeywordLuv. It does a great job of giving commenters a human touch that would previously not be available.
Jake – indeed it does give some human touch….though I look at it more as a way to allow people who comment on my blog to tout one of their favorite posts!
Installing these plug-ins do give an advantage for both the blog owner and the guest who comments. But making sure that all the comments are all the more necessary. It was nice reading the article.
Bob – all of these plugins def have an advantage for bloggers.
Wow – great info in this article. I saved it to favorites to refer to later. Thanks, and I’m a follower!
lori´s last blog ..Penelope
Lori – def was great to meet you via SITS! It really is one of my favorite sites and I only became aware of it because the developer at CommentLuv had them featured in his newsletter right before Xmas.
Way to go Michelle. I’ve been using these plugins for ages and have been dofollow since day one. It has helped a lot in getting people to comment, and while I do get some spam that akismet let’s through, it’s easy to delete or spam those comments.
Sire@WassupBlog´s last blog ..If Women Controlled The Earth
Sire! Wassup? I still have to peek at your post that you had told me about before. I’ve been crazed the last few weeks with bookkeeping things for clients. I finally got all the 1099’s done today so I can catch up on the things I’ve set aside (like watching your video). I was unaware that WP was, by default, NoFollow. Do you know if changes were made in 2.9.1 that makes it easier to make your site a DoFollow or is using one of the plugins still necessary?
As far as I know the plugin is still necessary. You would think though that they would have made it an option by now wouldn’t you?
Sire@WassupBlog´s last blog ..Where The Bloody Hell Are You…….
I had been doing nofollow on many of my blogs and they had very few comments. I read a few posts on the dofollow attribute and decided to give it a try, and now am glad that I did. I’m getting many more comments, so have decided to start converting more of my blogs. I use the dofollow plugin, as well as Keywordluv and Commentluv. I also read a post from a SEO guru who said that using the dofollow attribute would cause your site to have PR drain, and that your ranking would suffer. Well, I put up two sites using the dofollow, and within abour 45 days, they both had a PR 2. I also did no linking on either site, Maybe it was dumb luck, but who cares!!!
Gustav@ White Gold Diamond Anniversary Ring´s last blog ..Where Can I Find Emerald Cut Diamond Engagement Rings?
Gustav – I say the heck with losing Page Rank if it creates more of a community. But if someone was concerned with PR rank then maybe they’d want to re-consider. I’m at a PR3 and my site is just over a year old (though domain name has been registered longer than that).
Twitter: Moomettes
January 24, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Very informative recap. I implement all of these on my blogs – Comment Luv (which is how I found your blog from Gayle at Grow Map), and my blogs are Do-Follow. Tonite I added KeywordLuv and really hope others will find out about it and do the same!
Cindi @ Moomette’s Magnificents´s last blog ..How To Get Paid to Write Every Day as a Ghostwriter
Cindy – that is what I love about CommentLuv – makes it so easy to find other blogs that may be of interest. I’ve visited many just because the site I was at had CL installed. I’ll be sure to pop by your site…do you do ghost-writing?
Haha! You sure are getting more comments! From 0 to 30 is PDG.
I remember how it felt to not get any comments. Kinda sucked.
Kudos!
Dave Doolin | Website In A Weekend´s last blog ..MasterMind Power III: The 5 Ws Of a Successful Mastermind Group
Ah Dave – I always love to see you and horsey show up in my comments! I am doing good with comments and once I am past the rush of 1099 preparation for clients (which officially was finished today) I am going to be back in the swing of blog posting so I expect to get even more comments here in the future!
Twitter: cjbowker
January 26, 2010 at 9:27 am
You inspired a new blog post from me. I did some research into dofollow and found a new plugin. I just blogged about it. Let me know what you think…
CJ Bowker´s last blog ..A different dofollow plugin
CJ – Oh I love to be inspiration on blog posts! I am def going to check out your blog. I want to know what cool new plugin you found!
Hey Michelle glad to see you using all three keyword luv, comment luv and do follow. You will quickly find many quality bloggers commenting on your blog that are part of the do follow community who actually care about making real networking relationships. Many of them have already commented on here I see. Keep up the good work.
Dan @ Tampa Homes For Sale´s last blog ..Tampa to receive recovery act grant money
Hey there, Dan! Do you also use all three on your site?
Thanks for using dofollow, I use dofollow, keywordluv, comment luv and top commentators in my blogs
thanks
Ray – will def check out your site as well!
Hey, thanks a lot for explaining the whole comment-luv/keyword luv thing. You’ve finally cleared things up for me.
Oh, and sorry if this post looks spammy, I couldn’t figure out how to make my keywords appear next to my name.
Keep up the informative posts.
Actually it’s really easy just write it in this format: Jim @ Fishing Clubs and it will work like a charm!
I recently joined the do-follow, keyword & comment luv movement on my site as well. I saw a brief spike in traffic, but it seems to have dropped off. How has it worked out for you?
James@Photographer´s last blog ..Time on my Hands
James – although those tools definitely help I think it’s still important to comment on other blogs because people tend to feel the need to be reciprocal. I know I try to as often as possible.
Thanks for explaining DoFollow, Keyword Luv & CommentLuv. Keyword Luv is great because you can reward your commenters with keywords and at the same time see their names which makes it look less spammy. Best of both worlds.
Zsymo @ Plumber Putney London´s last blog ..Hello world!
I have keywordluv on a few of my sites and the traffic really spikes for a while, but it is all traffic going toward your plugin, so be careful not to just do keywordluv as means of advertising. Great site thought. Props
Adam@Interesting Articles´s last blog ..Most Bought Vehicle of All Time
Adam – I agree, it does seem a lot of my newer traffic is coming here for the KeyWord luv. I may have to become more selective with what I am allowing as a comment as some people certainly seem to be taking advantage of it without truly contributing to conversation.
Agreed – that helps. I’m not the biggest Twitter user, but I notice a little self promotion works well, too.
James@Photographer´s last blog ..Sunday
James – I still haven’t figured out an authentic way to self promote on Twitter; though it’s something I am trying to figure out for myself. How do you do it?
I am also using KeywordLuv to add “follow” links to my site. If anyone wants to participate just visit my site at http://www.valentinedaychocolate.net which is running several WordPress plugins. Those that participate will be rewarded with a “follow” link to their site. All you need to do is just leave a comment at http://www.valentinedaychocolate.net under the existing “Do Follow Blog, Comment Luv, Keyword Luv” post.
Ken – will check it out!
These plugins are really needed for the hour. Webmasters install them on their blog but spammers really take advantage of it. I have it in my blog as well, but this will definitely increase the moderation time. But in my personal opinion its highly helpful.
Darrin – it does increase admin time to a certain extent. I still manually go through anything captured by Askimet as it’s not 100% accurate. From time to time there is a comment captured that I feel is actually not spam. But on the most part I think the benefits outweigh the negatives with having the plug-ins installed. Especially if you are a serious blogger.
As long as the comments actually contribute something worthwhile to your site, then I am all for dofollow!
Shaw – agreed. I def like to see that the comments are applicable to the post. Though often it is easy to see which ones aren’t. Spammers may get better at it but for now many of them are too transparent.
Wow, absolutely helpful post. I didn’t know about the CommentLuv. Thanks for introducing me to it!
Daryl – you will love CommentLuv – it has many great benefits.
Michelle, already signed up for it and have begun posting comments…I like the benefit of the reciprocal comments, and I’ve found some cool content I might not have otherwise found!
Daryl – I am so with you there! It has def. been a great way for me to find new content! That’s how I found some of my favorite blogs!
Thanks for helping get the word out Michelle. Keyword/comment Luv are a great combo. I have heard differing opinions on traffic generation and benefit of the links. Let me know what experiences you may have had. I’d love to hear about them.
Nick – so far I’d have to say that my experience with both have been 98% positive. I do get more spam comments but I know how to trash them. For me, the benefits greatly outweigh the extra spam!
I installed Comment Luv but I am not very glad with the amount of comments until now. Greetings from Germany!
Marko´s last blog ..Bericht zur Nürnberger Spielwarenmesse 2010
Marko – hello from WI to Germany! Are you getting more comments now because of CommentLuv?
Does Keyword Luv help with SEO at all? Because honestly, that would be the only reason I’d be interested.
Not sure if it helps with SEO, I believe that it does not.
Twitter: 101-275430
February 22, 2010 at 12:32 am
That is a great idea and thanks for your post. Its starting to make much more sense now after I’ve been doing the research on my own.
Thanks for the link.
Glad I could help!
Hi Michelle,
I’ve just recently learned about all the things you were talking about, I’m mainly concentrating on KeywordLuv.
Thanks for posting the 2 links under the dofollow directories, I use http://followlist.com/ the most, if you haven’t submitted your site there you should, I really like your site! I also use an “all-in-one” type SEO tool, SEO For Firefox. Seems like everywhere I look when I surf now, I see nofollow links everywhere (and I usually cringe) 
.
greenlants
Greenlants – I’m not sure that most people realize the difference between DoFollow and NoFollow and if they do they may not be aware that WordPress is NoFollow by default. Do hope that an upcoming version of WP will make it easier to make the change without the use of a PlugIn.
Comment Luv is one of my secret weapons as an SEOer. I use the search term “title=”CommentLuv Enabled”” fishing charter in google to find targeted blogs utilizing comment luv to build links and market my site. Very valuable little secret as a marketer!
Ohhhhh that is an awesome tip and def one I was not aware of! I will def try that out!