KeywordLuv – Comments Page
This page is provided for general comments on the KeywordLuv WordPress plugin. If you have a support issue, please leave a comment on the KeywordLuv – Support Page.
NOTE: This blog is no longer DoFollow and KeywordLuv is only active on this page. For information on why this is the case, see Bye Bye DoFollow.
Feel free to try the plugin out by leaving a comment, but note that I will delete most comments unless they are contributing something really worthwhile. This posts attracts way too many comments (several thousand at the time of writing) and most don’t really say much.
Why have I separated Comments and Support Issues from the main plugin page?
Two main reasons, both relating to the amount of comments this site gets:
- The support issues tend to get lost in the “nice plugin” comments. They deserve their own space.
- When you get almost 500 comments on one of your most important pages, it doesn’t do much for your PageRank.
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A sample comment showing KeywordLuv in action!
Note: you can’t see this working in the comment preview, only after it’s been posted.
Well, I’ll be the first to test it out on your blog. I’ll slap it on my blog as soon as I can.
I notice that the Recent Comments widget on my site doesn’t change. That plugin must be building the comments directly from the DB, rather than using WordPress’ comment functions.
Okay, I’ve sorted out my Recent Comments widget by hacking it. However, it’s uncovered what may be a serious problem for this plugin. KeywordLuv works by filtering the following functions:
- get_comment_author_link()
- comment_author_link()
If your theme uses these functions to display the comment author link, KeywordLuv will work fine.
If however, your theme manually builds the comment author link, using a combination of the following functions:
- comment_author or get_comment_author; and
- comment_author_url or get_comment_author_url
then KeywordLuv will not be able to filter the comment author link and will therefore not do anything. There is no way around this – apart from manually incorporating the plugin’s functionality into the theme, which isn’t practical unless you are an advanced user.
I’ll add this to the page above.
Why not include it on the options page? Put in the default and if that doesn’t work, they can select the others. Or… you could have it do a php search to find out which ones are being used on a particular theme and set them that way.
By the way, the link text at the bottom does not appear, probably because I’m using the CommentLuv plugin.
Hi RT,
Not that simple I’m afraid. With the first two functions, the link is created by WordPress and a plugin such as KeywordLuv can filter it.
With the other functions, WordPress doesn’t create the link, just the name and the URL. The theme would use these to build the link. A plugin could filter the name or the URL, but there IS NO link for it to filter. Sure, it could strip the name out, so the keywords are the anchor text, but then there is no way to pass the name to the theme.
I checked your site and the link text does appear, but there’s no gap between it and the CommentLuv text. Here is a snippet from your site:
I’ll have to add paragraph tags around the message.
You may not be seeing the message as it does not appear if you are logged in (I may not have said this anywhere).
There’s no point showing the text if you’re logged in, as you do not have a name field to enter YourName@YourKeywords (at least not with most themes).
RE: the link message running into the CommentLuv message: You could probably fix this by adding the paragraph marks around the message in the parameter, rather than waiting for a new version…
I disabled it, Stephen, until you get it worked out. My theme isn’t using the link() functions anyway and I’m leary of doing any theme editing until I get the kinks out of the 2.5 upgrade.
RT,
Okay, I’m seeing if I can come up with a plan – although it will have to involve editing themes to some degree – and in that case it probably makes more sense to change the theme to use comment_author_link() or get comment_author_link()!
Can I ask what you use for threaded comments? I use YATCP and I checked three versions of Brian’s Threaded Comments going back to 2004. They all use comment_author_link(), so anyone using either of those plugins will have no trouble with KeywordLuv.
You’re right. I was looking at the theme version instead of YATCP. I need to upgrade it from the 1st version though.
Okay, I’ve rewritten it. Themes that don’t use comment_author_link() or get_comment_author_link() can add the following before the link in their theme:
<?php if (function_exists('keywordluv_name')) keywordluv_name(); ?>
Of course, if they have to edit the theme anyway, it would be simpler for them to change to using comment_author_link(). From what I can tell, comment_author_link() is the way to go for people in the know. I’m not sure why theme creators would have used the other functions, but I’m sure some have.
Anyway, I’m done for tonight. I’ll put version 1.01 up tomorrow, with these changes and the paramater tags in the default message field. I’ll also add usage instructions to the document above.
Okay, version 1.01 is up and I’ve update the page above and the changelog etc.
Wow.. an awesome idea, Stephen. I am going to try this plugin as soon as possible.
K,
Thanks. That was quick – I haven’t actually announced it yet! I guess you have a sharp eye and saw it in the comments form. We’ll see how it goes. A lot depends on how people’s themes build the link. At least it works here though!
This is fun Stephen. I did notice it in the comment form.. (always looking for better things for WordPress
)
I usually condone comments using keywords in my blog if the comment was meaningful but I could never bring myself to leave comments in other blogs with just the keyword for my name. I would love to see more blogs use this. I will test it in my theme and let you know.
Yeah it is fun. You’ve got me commenting in IE now, because I’m logged in Firefox and it only works for people who aren’t logged in…
I’ve just noticed that in 1.01, the name doesn’t appear in the comments manager in the WordPress Admin area. It did with 1.0, before I changed so it would a little better with incompatible themes. I’ll have to look into this….
Okay, I’ve written 1.02, but won’t bundle it up until tomorrow.
Basically, if the plugin caters for those themes that aren’t compatible, it affects the Comments page in the Admin area (it just shows the keyword rather than name@keywords like version 1.0 did). There is no way around this.
So, what I’ve done is I’ve added a compatibility mode parameter in the options screen. By default it’s off. If your theme is compatible, no problem. If you find your theme is incompatible, then you’ll have to turn the parameter on – but the price is that you’ll only see the keywords in the Admin – Comments area.
I’ll have to write some documentation for this, so it won’t be up for 24 hours or so.
I’ll get it as soon as you have it ready (when I’m awake that is).
RT, I’m half an hour too slow for you! Don’t know about you, but I plan on not being awake very shortly!
Version 1.02 is now up. It can be downloaded on this page above. A full explanation of the compatibility issue can be found on the KeywordLuv – Theme Compatibility Issue page, along with some possible workarounds.
It certainly does make the comment section more personable. Thanks for the heads up. Zoomed ya!
Hi Paul, Thanks!
This plugin is working great on my blog. Thanks very much.
The only thing I’ve noticed, though, is that it doesn’t play well with CommentLuv. When CommentLuv is enabled, it shows as “person’s name@person’s website”, as opposed to just the name. Not really an issue, but I thought you might like to know.
Hi Grateful Guy,
Thanks for letting me know. I’ve had a quick look at CommentLuv and it creates the author’s name using a different method, that can’t be filtered. That means any work around will be less than ideal…
The best I can come up with right now, is that I’ll write a post explaining how to hack CommentLuv to embed the KeywordLuv functionality. I’ll try to keep it as simple as possible, but I know many people will not want to do this, so I may check with Andy Bailey about whether he can add the hack (that may be a bit presumptuous of me though!).
It’ll be a couple of days before I get it done though.
I’ve resolved the issue with CommentLuv, without the need to make any hacks to the CommentLuv plugin. It just works. This comment can be considered an example.
The changes are made in v1.03, which is not available for download yet, but will be soon. I’ll make another comment when it’s available.
For those interested in what it now does: When the comment is saved, KeywordLuv checks to see whether the comment author is in the comment body and if so, strips the everything from the @ symbol out. This only affects the comment author text in the comment body, not the comment author itself (the plugin needs the keywords in the comment author field).
As part of this testing, I finally enabled CommentLuv on my site and it’s here to stay. So now you’re getting Luv from all directions (have to be careful how to phrase this!).
Stephen Cronin’s last blog post..New WordPress Plugin – KeywordLuv
Version 1.03, which plays nicely with CommentLuv, is now available for download. Further details in the previous comments and upgrade instructions in the page body above (basically, just copy the new file over the old one).
I have it downloaded and will be installing it on ALL my blogs as soon as I get a round tuit.
RT Cunningham’s last blog post..10 Ways To Power Up My Blog
Hi RT,
Excellent! Let me know if you have any problems with it…
And just for you:
Sorry, couldn’t resist. My father bought a wooden one when I was young, hung it on the wall and made many a joke.
I now have it installed on them. Keep your tuits to yourself.
RT Cunningham’s last blog post..Charlton Heston, The Legend, Dead at 83
Just installed the plugin and I’m loving it. There’s a small incompatibility with a plugin I wrote called Ajax Edit Comments, but that’s only when editing the name portion of a comment, which hardly anyone does.
I’m testing it out on my site to see how the readers like it.
Ronald’s last blog post..Testing Out a New WordPress Plugin called KeywordLuv
Yep, I discovered that little bug when I tried to edit the name at lostaddress.org
RT Cunningham’s last blog post..Are You Willing To Blog Until You Drop?
Yep, not sure if I can fix it on my end or not. I’m currently brainstorming a feature set for a 2.0 version, and am always interested in coordinating with plugin authors for compatibility.
What I’ll likely do in 2.0 is use a comment section completely like the original WordPress one, in order to minimize conflicts with themes and other plugins.
Ronald’s last blog post..Liz Strauss at WordCamp Dallas Transcript
Ok, then the YATCP plugin should give you some good pointers — it uses a different comments.php, I think yatcp-comments, from the plugin itself.
RT Cunningham’s last blog post..Are You Willing To Blog Until You Drop?
Wow.. great to see all the new developments with the plugin. Sorry Stephen, I haven’t had a chance to install this yet. I am hoping to do it this weekend.
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Awesome plugin! I’ve enabled it on my site (Kiwification) – I like to reward commentors however possible..
yes..I like to have more commentors as possible..
thanks to you..
This is a great tool to encourage comments. Thank you for sharing this with the community.
What a wonderful plug in. I luv it (pun intended.) I think it’s great that you are developing and sharing these things that are win-wins for the online community aspect of blogging.
Keep them coming!
Just wanted to say thanks for a great plugin, and for helping to not only encourage comments but also to reward everyone for doing it.
Great plugin, thanks! Good present for commentators with own blogs
Thanks to everyone who left comments over the last few weeks. I appreciate your support.
Can’t wait to start using this. I just updated to WP 2.5 and am using the latest Sem Pro theme, so fingers crossed that it will all work together!
Hi Tracy,
It should work with WP2.5, but not sure about the Sem Pro theme. Let me know if it works or not! I’d be very interested to know.
Stephen,
I’ve been using this plug-in for a few days now, and it rocks!
People love the fact that they’re getting a benefit from their comments and are commenting much more often.
Simply brilliant…
-Riggie
Hi Riggie,
Glad you like the plugin. I think it gives the commentators just a little more incentive to take action and leave a comment. Everyone wins!
I have installed it although I forgot that I had to log out for it to appear to me – I should have read ALL of your readme text but I tend to just read the install part and then go back to the readme if I have any problems. I also discovered, by logging out, that comment luv is working too so thanks for indirectly solving that dilemma for me too.
Hi Stephen,
I finally got around to installing the plugin and will report back with how it affects comments in my blog. Great to hear the CommentLuv issue is taken care of as well! Hope you are doing great.
Hi Stephen,
#1 You are my hero.
#2 If there is a way that I can get a small interview for a few questions with you for my real estate seo blog with you let me know by emailing me. Truly genius. as I may say again. Thank you thank you.
I’m still trying to figure out how to create a blog, everyone says go to word press but i must say web design has never been my fortie. if anyone knows how to create a decent blog thats easy to use and has keywordluv with it please let me know.
cheers
OMG. I love this plugin. I am currently setting up a new blog and planned on using the commentluv, but this, this is awesome. Great job and thanks.
Sweet. I would love to see a list of blogs that are using this plugin. It’s always nice when contributing on blogs to get a little link love as well.
Hi Stephen, the plugin is great, it works perfectly with wp 2.5 too
Stephen – I really love the keywordluv plugin. What an excellent way to provide a win/win atmosphere for everyone involved in a blogging community or conversation. We are seeing more and more people adapt to these plugins and plan on incorporating them into our blog that we are currently designing. Nice post.
This is an awesome addition to our wordpress blogs. Will be getting mine installed shortly. Thanks for the example.
Why isn’t this plugin more popular!?!? Man, what a wonderful digital world this would be if this plugin was a standard feature. With so much competition out here, i’m glad there are a few webmasters that try to help other webmasters out in little ways like this.
Stephen, you’re one awesome dude to have this plugin installed and to have do-follow as well. Are you the creator of this plugin? Because you rank number 1 for a few keywordluv keywords and i’m just curious.
Worked on installing today and had a few problems. It worked but the “instructions for the user” did not show up. I wasn’t sure if it was my WP version or my theme so I upgraded my version to 2.5.1. Then I went back to the keywordluv plugin and since the instructions were still not there I edited my comments.php file. The instructions showed up but the plugin stopped working. After a few “testing” posts not working, I checked my spam and that’s where all my comments were. I de-spammed them but no matter what I do I can’t get out of akismet hell. I also deleted the keywordluv.php file, no change. I’m using a different website and email address here so that you will see this. I am hoping you have some suggestions for me. If you can help, I would really appreciate it.
Hi Bob,
KeywordLuv should have nothing to do with Askimet. There are some Anti-spam plugins which might pick you up for your keywords, but Askimet’s not one of them.
Askimet normally picks you up if someone has reported your comments (on another blog) as spam.
Askimet identifies you by the email address you enter, but it may also be able to identify you by the URL you leave or your IP address. It may be that one of those has been flagged as spam on another blog – although it normally has to be flagged as spam many times.
I have a friend who got into Askimet Hell, and he got out of it simply by going to the Askimet website and contacting them and telling them he was genuine and they took him off the list. I’d suggest that’s probably the best thing to do…
I sincerely hope you get out of Askimet hell, because it’s a very frustrating place to be.
I’m new to blogging, and this looks like a great tool to encourage people to comment. Thanks for this tool!
Hi Stephen,
Thanks for taking the time to make this excellent plugin.
So many times have i seen Mr ‘Seo’ commenting on blogs or Mr ‘Web Design’. .. finally people can have their keyword text along with a real name
Reward comments, fight google.
Fight spam, not blogs.
Thanks Stephen, Akismet responded me to within 24 hrs. after sending them an email, taking me out. I really don’t think anyone took me for spam (but who knows). I really thought I caused it myself after I installed your plugin cuz I tested it numerous times on my blog posting spam like and/or duplicate comments. I couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t working! Anyway, all is well now. Thanks for responding.
Like Luv makes the world go ’round Stephen!
Absolute magic plugin, hope your brownie point tally goes stellar!
I’m a fan of this plugin… thanks for bringing it to our attention!
This plugin simply rocks! However, I’ll probably have to explain how to use it to my readers and commenters. CommentLuv and KeywordLuv go hand in hand.
Hey Jen, CommentLuv and KeywordLuv may go hand in hand, but that doesn’t mean that they should both be used simultaneously. Enabling Keywordluv requires no extra database space and motivates people to comment. Commentluv on the other hand requires alot of extra database space and monitoring especially if you have a large and active blog such as this one.
Stephen,
I love KeywordLuv
Using KeywordLuv and going DoFollow has really increased my blog comments.
I also recommend Spam Karma – it does a great job of filtering out most spam comments. Only takes me a few minutes a day to filter out the junk comments.
By the way, I’m seeing what I have typed below, as I type. Does KeywordLuv do that? I don’t recall seeing that on my blog when I tested KeywordLuv.
This is my first comment using KeywordLuv and I will definitely consider using KeywordLuv at my Blog. Does it work in alongside CommentLuv?
What Comment Spam Protection Plugin are you using? Have a nice day.
I’ve seen this plug-in along with CommentLuv at several sites. They’re both fantastic, and really compliment one another very well. I hope they keep working together nicely. It’s almost an embarrassment of riches to find them both together.
Ahhh, you made this wonderful plug-in? I’ve just discovered it in the last few days. I just love it. Many, many thanks to you. It’s absolutely brilliant. It creates so much value for the blog owner and commenter both, and really encourages participation.
great work, thank you. i will try it in my 4 blogs.
This plugin rocks! I love be able to use both my name as well as some keywords. Much Luv for Keyword Luv!
yea this is one of the best plug-ins that has been needed forever ago! glad to see u put it to use
Hey Stephen,
Great stuff. This is even more useful than the iFrame Widgets plugin as it offers a great incentive for people to comment 9they get a backlink with their anchor text
)
Thanks Robin
Great post and fantastic plugin. I have several sites / blogs within the topic of internet marketing, blogging and seo. I am going to get this plugin activated right away, comments are powerful stuff indeed.
Thanks,
Brian
What a cool plugin. I’ll install it tonight and give ‘er a test. I think this will really catch on! Nice job.
This is a great plugin, I will install it into my own blog and see how it works. Thanks for the great information.
What a great plugin, I love the idea!
Yes Susan, Keyword Luv is a great plugin, and so is Comment Luv. The internet, after all, loves back links. And if you can get 1000′s for free, why not?
Yeah, I prefer keyworluv for the fact that more sites can benefit from it, even when the site is not a blog, and keywordluv sites are all dofollow (otherwise the anchor text keywords are there for no reason).
Commentluv on the otherhand is good in that it helps promote other blogs automatically and mutually, however, it is not always dofollow.
With that said, the best way to spend link-building time is to 1)find all the keywordluv blogs there are, 2)rank them by site PR, then 3)rank each site’s posts by internal page PR, and if you keep your findings on excel or some other organized means, voila, you have a strong link-building system you can go to whenever you want to build new links, for any new sites you may have!
i got a question about this plug-in. Is there any possibility that a certain site using this plug-in will be penalized by Google due to too much link on a post? I’m currently studying website ranking or SEO. Thanks in advance for the reply.
Hi
This is a great idea. Any tool that encourages visitors to leave a comment is great as far as I am concerned.
I get plenty of visitors but few comments so hopefully this will help.
cheers
les
Firstly,let say great plugin. That said I’m yet to come across any other site that has implemented this plugin. I agree that this is so much better than only seeing keywords and phrases as part of the comment author
Yeah, this is gonne be great to put in my blog in order to drive visitors to comment. Thanks for sharing this handy plugin.
Very cool idea. I have dugg this post, and downloaded the plugin, I am not 100% sure if I am going to use it yet, but it’s uploaded to my server for a rainy day.
This is a very cool plug-in. I’ll be testing this out on one of my blogs, if it helps fuel some comment juice, I’ll be adding it to the rest of them – very cool!
Thanks very much for this, am looking forwards to trying this out on the blog!
Paul
Excellent plugin, I’m giving it a try for sure from a commenting standpoint, and I’ve installed it as well on one of my newer blogs to test out. I think it will help people post more comments and then not feel guilty about spammy a blog, because they are not. Thanks.
Very great plug-in, You really help people.. I’m going to test it out into one of my blog….thank U
Hi, Stephen
That’s really nice plugin, very helpful. Since, I’m a new player in internet business, …emm you know… need more backlinks to rank well.
ThankSo Much
from Me Ang3l Ph0to9raphY
Hello Stephen,
I read this post …maybe about… 2 days ago!? ..then I try this on my blog and really work well ( I mean this plug in KeywordLuv ). thanks for sharing this tips..
And my suggest to other visitors please don’t spam people who really generous sharing their link..please respec their generousity.
Wow! This is interesting. I’ve just downloaded it and about to install it on my blog. Thanks a lot.
Wow,
This is the plugin that I’m looking for…. Its important to the commenter….
Awesome plug-in many thanks to you and I will definitely recommend Keyword Luv to everyone I know!
Hi Stephen,
Thanks a lot for the plugin. I downloaded KeywordLuv, activated it and it worked fine.
Great work.
Nicole
I was looknig back at some older posts I saw your “Round to it” comment above – that’s great! Would make a great avatar.
Am trying this thing if this work… This really nice in optimizing certain keywords.
Interesting!
KeywordLuv 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.
Hi Stephen Thank’s for the great plugin it make link building a lot easier and faster.
We are able to get backlink from other weblog or site with pagerank 0-6 or may be even PR 7-8 with no paying anything. Because We all know that most of blog owner run their blog with little start up money that makes really difficult to buy a link from link broker.
I do really appreciate to both this plugin and you stephen.
Thank Stephen
Hi Stephen,
Seems as though I’m a late adopter to keyword and comment luv but I’m using them and think they are great community builder plugins.
Thanks for them both!
Trish
Thanks for this information… I am new to the do-follow movement and am happy to find out about these great plugins… I just installed these along with CommentLuv over at my blog. Hopefully I won’t get killed by spammers without a math question
Wow! I think I may convert and switch to a DoFollow blog with Keyword Luv. Seems like a great match and what a better way to give back to your lovely commenters? Thanks alot for this info.
I believe in dofollow movement but the problem is Google penalized a lot of this people. I hope G change its mind regarding this.
Is it only available with wp? or blogger’s blog can install too? I want to use it with my 2 blogger’s blog along with a newly started WP (downloaded already).
Thanks a lot for taking the time and effort to write such a great plug (KeywordLuv) in for your commentators, I rarely seen such an encouraging and blog, am sure it will help making your blog more visitor sticky. You have impressive ideas
yes it should increase for the keyword “author name”.
Great plug in and makes life quite easy.. hope it will go on and spread.
nice info & the implementation that i see here is simply great!
This plugin is great! I am going to add it to my blog today.
Excellent work on this Stephen. Its this level of developer/enduser helpful interaction that is unfortunately lacking from drupals community in my opinion. Go wordpress!
This is awesome, thanks alot! Just wanted to try it out, i seen it on another blog first and was like whoa! It’s too cool.
This is great. Like everyone else, I thought I’d just try it out … How many people are using it, do you know?
Seems to be a very great plugin, Stephen! I’ll probably review it soon
What a cool plugin! I’ve been experimenting with it on a couple of blogs and I’ve seen a steady increase in comments and return visits. Thanks for making it available!
This is a great plugin. It is an interesting way to allow blog owners to repay commenters. I am experimenting with it on one of my blogs. So far it seems to work great. I haven’t had any compitability issues with it at all. Thank you very much for the cool plugin.
I must compliment you Stephen for finding a lovely way of solving the keyword problem. One thing is definite that many visitors which come to the site are mainly to get a backlink and keyword luv for their site. And I don’t see any harm in that as we all are here to do work and get our sites on top. But the way you have solved the problem of the comments looking shabby with keywords as anchor text is marvelous. Me too is going to get this plugin up on my blog.
I’m still wondering. Does Google really count link that coming from KeywordLuv?
anyone can answer it?
I’m new to wordpress, so finding this plugin is awesome! Thank you…
I just learned about this plugin from the Tucson SEO blog. Thanks so much for making it available. One thing I haven’t seen much mention of, is there a suggested maximum length for te anchor text?
After reading your post carefully…I now know why. ,I was commenting on a blog -it’s said that the blog using keywordluv- but when I insert my name name@keyword it didn’t appear name from keyword, it appears just like what we type in. Thay may have turned off the keywordluv…
ummm. but, would this kind of blog follow our link?
thanks
This is a great article. I’m glad to see a wordpress plug in like this. This will allow people to actually use their names while using a keyword. I think I will try this for my blog.
I’ve learned so much about this in the last few days. I knew there was something about nofollow but I didn’t really understand it. This plugin really enhances the value of dofollow blogs.
this is great information
Thanks for this great script! We’ll start implementing KeywordLuv
in all our blogs.
It helps all of us to get useful links to our sites.
Martina
This plugin is great, because it specifically carves out a space for keywords, making it less spammy. Thanks to the author of the plugin for finding reasonable solutions to the nofollow dilemma.
Nice. I am getting this plugin
Thanks, I really love this plug-in and I am now using it on one of my blogs. Great work. Cheers.
I LUV it. Will install it to my blog as well to fully give advantage to my commentators and it will help my blog too.
Thanks for great stuff!
Testing the plugin
Excellent idea. Hope many people use it – although do you get much spam trouble?
Of course, it only works if you’re not a klutz and don’t paste your URL wrongly like I just did!!!
I’ve been doing some research and it appears that links within the content of a website is far more powerful the one buried in a directory.
So comments on blogs like this are amongst the content so are very good indeed.
I think I’m gonna start using it – I mean there’s no downside to dofollow, just showing a bit of link love
I am finding this plug-in is really starting to catch on. The blogs using it, well the decent ones with ok authority seem to be getting lots of comments. Great work.
I think that,
Search Engine now count more weight on link that coming from directory such Dmoz
and I heard that Yahoo really like inlink coming from .org .gov or .edu site that sure they are really trusted site with less spammy.
but If you target a very very little competitive keyword (but profitable). Commenting and get backlink from blog (with keywordLuv Plugin) might help and boost your ranking, .
Proven coz I did it
This is a great plugin. Ive mad the mistake of starting my blog with blogger, but I will be switching really soon because I my friends have been telling me that wordpress is way better and has tons more features.
What a great plugin, i’m sick of stupid comments on my blog
Stephen I am very greatful to you for this plugin for wordpress. I have installed it into my 4 blogs.
It looks like a great plugin. Is there any way i can use it on wordpress.com hosted weblog ?
Hey Stephen, this has become one of the most popular posts and receive record number of comments from folks appreciating your work. I do have a SEO related question in using this plugin. Now, that our pages have comments with links going out to all kinds of keywords, does that dilute the weight of that particular page in terms of keywords that would rightfully reach that page? Also, I wonder if this is something Google is going to look down upon as well down the road. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Hi K,
Very interesting question and one I’ve been considering recently. I’m planning to do a post on this shortly. My toolbar PR has gone backwards, although it hasn’t affected the SERPS and my search engine traffic has been slowly and steadily increasing.
I don’t think it dilutes the weight of the page’s primary keywords much – Google’s too clever for that these days, but I’ve noticed that most of my commentators now leave links to commercial sites. If one of those was considered a ‘bad neighbourhood’ by Google, that could hurt you.
Anyway, thanks for the question and I’ll expand in a post.
Does the spam protection included on the plug-in? I hope so, coz definitely a lot of them will be attracted to comment to you.
LINK REMOVED: because of failure to use KeywordLuv syntax (name@keywords)
KeywordLuv is really a great tool, I should probably start using more on all my blogs, nice post.
Good plugin! I never found similiar plugin in wordpress.org. Now I am going to use and hope visitors leave useful comments. It’s good for both visitors and site owner. Visitors can leave good comment exchange for an text link.
This is a great plugin. I’ve been looking for a way to encourage people to leave comments. Most are just after putting in a link with some good anchor text. Using keywordluv, they can leave a good comment and get the link they want.
Great work with this plugin mate, its a true god send. This will encourage our visitors to interact with our site. And now since they believe websites are starting to rank due to how long a visitor stays on your site, this will be just pure gold.
Great plugin! Thanks for taking the time to write it. I’m going to install it on my blogs this afternoon.
What an amazing idea to reward your readers, something I can use too on my blogs
I love this plugin, I have added it to my blog now and I’m hoping it will liven up the comments
How did you put the Spam protection? I am having trouble with the installation of the anti-spam plug-in with keywordluv on my srednarb/blog directory. Hope you can help. I am subscribing with this comment list so I could get your answer via email. Thanks in advance!
is this plug-in possible to be installed in WordPress.com blogs? if not why not WP owners don’t consider them to be installed?
too bad more people dont use the keywordluv plugin :/
Does this plugin only work on WP sites? It would be nice if we could do it on Google Blogger blogs as well. On my site all about car rims, sizes, and more I haven’t enabled it yet but i think it would be useful so I could get more people visiting and leaving comments.
This is a really cool plugin, I’d be glad to use it in all of my wordpress blogs, it will surely increase traffic and activity.
Great plugin, but it doesn’t work very well with top commentator, or a reply plugin that I use.
I think it would be much better if you it just added a new field for anchor text.
Hi Joel,
Unfortunately, it’s not so easy to just add a new field, because we’re dealing with an area that’s central to WordPress. Adding a new field would mean even less themes would work with it.
I wish more people used this – I feel bad using keywords as my name, but I always leave a good comment – yet a lot of my comments don’t get published. It’s a real dilemma sometimes but KeywordLuv takes away the issue.
I think this is a great plugin in sharing your luv to the commenter
Thanks for this plugin
(not as a user in blogs, but as a commentator)
Nice plugin I guess, but doesn’t it defeat the purpose of the plugin when you no follow all of the comments posted here? I thought this plugin is for sharing link love.
Hi Jackson,
I’ve been waiting for someone to notice! As an experiment, I’ve enabled nofollow on pages, but left it disabled for posts (so you can still get your link love there).
The reason is that most of my plugin pages, such as this, attract a LOT of comments – to the point that there are so many links that Google is probably ignoring them anyway. I want to see if adding nofollow has any effect on search engine traffic to my website for an upcoming post on KeywordLuv and SEO.
I saw this plugin from another blog… I had to check it
I had been using CommentLuv for quite awhile, but I tried KeywordLuv on one of my blogs and I like it much better. It’s really had an impact on the over number and quality of blog comments. Of course, I’ve had to deleted some spam, but I suspect that comes with the territory as everyone is trying to get back links (including me). I’m planning to switch all my blogs over to this plug-in here in the near future. Thanks for creating it.
Great work with this plugin mate, its a true god send. This will encourage our visitors to interact with our site. And now since they believe websites are starting to rank due to how long a visitor stays on your site, this will be just pure gold.
I was wondering what this was about, I never tried doing this in my posts. Definitely going to use it from now on. Definitely help my site out in the long run I think! Prolly bring more traffic!
Thanks for the interesting post. It looks like you have certainly attracted a lot of visitors and commenters on your post, do you find that this has helped your PR or SE rankings?
I have seen that the links for the keywordluv are all “external nofollow”, why is that? does the “nofollow” rel means search engines will not follow the link so what will be its purpose again?
Hi Bleuken,
As I said in a comment above:
I’ve been waiting for someone to notice! As an experiment, I’ve enabled nofollow on pages, but left it disabled for posts (so you can still get your link love there).
The reason is that most of my plugin pages, such as this, attract a LOT of comments – to the point that there are so many links that Google is probably ignoring them anyway. I want to see if adding nofollow has any effect on search engine traffic to my website for an upcoming post on KeywordLuv and SEO.
this is one of great wp plugin, thanks for info. i just installed in several my blogs
I think this is one of wordpress best plug in along with top commentator.
Thanks for the great info. It’s cool for you to share this and make it easy for us idiots to follow your instructions. I’m going to grab this new plugin right now.
I have no idea how to use wordpress since i am new to blogging and i only used blogger.com. Well, thanks for this very well explained tips, info or technique.. whatever it is i am really thankful coz i am learning a lot.
Nice blog with a great Keyword Luv plug-in. I installed the same plug-in on my wheel blog and it really helps to get people involved in participating in the blog but the downside is that I get a lot of one word comments and spam comments but what can you do! Anyways, giving some interesting comments and participating in various blogs can be fun!
This is a great plugin for rewarding readers for leaving comments and getting involved in discussions. It also helps to increase the number of comments which is great for blog owners too.
Hello,
Very useful plug-in indeed to reward commentators of you blog. In due time I’ll finalize my plans of migrating to wordpress. This is what I found lacking in BLOGGER, valuable plug-ins.
More power!
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This looks really like a great plugin. It seems that all the good plugins will require me to use something past WordPress 2.0.2. Though my server is old and without upgrading to a more expensive new one, I’m stuck in the old days it seems.
Hey ho. I’ll keep this bookmarked till I come into the present day!
good work.
R
is this plug-in already ready for the next release of WordPress? it should ‘coz this is really a great plug-in. Kudos to you for developing it.
i think i’ll try it since i have a problem when used commentluv. it’s happen when i changed the blog theme.
Thanks for the great info, but i have some question, what is the real mean about no follow, how to install that plugin in my wordpress…
@Toku, nofollow means that spiders of search engines will not follow the link on the anchor text not giving them “link juice” to increase their PageRank or page importance. Regarding installing, simply download the plug-in and upload it on your WordPress site, activate and that’s it. That’s what I have learned from here.
Great article. I haven’t heard of this plugin before but I definitely think it will be a big time plug in by many blog owners.
Thanks for sharing!
This looks like a really cool plugin. I’ve never heard about it before, but I’ll try it out and see how it goes on one of my test blogs.
Will be bookmarking your site from now on!
Thanks
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comment love definitely contributes to one’s site, especially if the keyword being promoted by the visitor is shown at search engine’s eye with the help of course of your plug-in.
Lovely plugin. Thanks for sharing!
This a fantastic plugin – and very helpful for people who have blogs. Especially since it encourages people to use their real names, since they can place their keywords anyway.
Installed on five blogs just now, thanks to this article. Happy to share the comment luv.
Great plugin, I already install it in my wordpress blog.
Hy..i want to try this plugin
First off… I hope I got the math right on the SPAM protection. lol.
Second… I just discovered your blog Keywordluv. It rocks! I’m off
to put it up on my blog. I’ll be following you and your blog closely.
Great stuff!
Once again, thanks!
Thanks Patrick.. I guess you can do addition!
Seems like a great wordpress plugin.
I will give it a try on my personal blog.
I’m sure my readers will love it
i’m trying the plugin to wordpress my v2.7 nightly build but it seems not working or not detected. Does the plugin compatible eith the beta version? Thanks
Hi Eligio,
I haven’t tested in on 2.7 yet. I have Beta 3 installed on a test blog, so I’ll upgrade it to RC1 and try KeywordLuv (and all my plugins) on it in the next week or so.
As a blogger who is into SEO and needs backlinks to generate traffic and revenue, I really like this new KeywordLuv plugin. Trying to leave comments with keywords in the name field has become a risky proposition, especially now that the Akismet service has become widespread on WordPress blogs.
I’m one of the few WordPress bloggers who doesn’t use or need Akismet (I use WP-Spam Free instead), but about a week ago my URL was apparently being blocked by Akismet, probably because someone reported me as spam for having a keyword in the name field.
Fortunately, with the KeywordLuv plugin, this problem is avoided somewhat because we now have a way to use both names AND keywords so that we do not seem spammy as long as we leave substantial comments.
keyword luv is so cool. i just wish more bloggers would use it :/
It is a great marketing tool for webmasters to rank better on SE for specific keyword. Kudos to keywordluv’s inventors
um, that’d be me!
Thanks for this wonderful plugin… I use it already in 2 of my projekts and it seem to work well.
In case you didn’t already know, v1.02 works on WP 2.7
Thanks Ray, I’ve haven’t had time to check it so I’m glad to know!
such a great plugin. not sure how itll work for PR yet but been trying.
Indeed, the keyword luv plug in do entice commenters into writing more relevant comments on do follow blogs if onlly because they are assured of high quality link because of this plug in.
I think that this widget would be the best as compared to the top commentators widget and CommentLuv, what could be better than your own keywords, very useful!
This is a great plug-in. It totally avoids the feeling of being rude when entering keywords instead of your name – it makes the comments look so much more professional. Lets hope its use spreads.
I just now noticed that this plugin is designed for WP- is there a blogger equivalent?
I can see how this plug-in really lures visitors to come and return. this post is the evidence, i guess the comments here are almost a hundred. really great visitor magnet plug-in!
I love your plugins and I think it is evident that people are returning to contribute in the comments. =)
Great work!
Certainly one of the best plugins I’ve seen for WordPress. But, how come all the comments added to this post are becoming no-follow?
Hi Daobits,
As I’ve said further up in the comments, Pages are nofollow, Posts are dofollow. This is a page. I doubt you’d get much link juice when it’s shared out to 212 comments anyway!
This is such a great plugin. I wish more used it.
Hey I really like the keywordluv movement. I think it will get some getting used to, but it seems like the natural progression for the dofollowers. Great work!!
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Oh sorry about that, thanks for letting me know.
I must have done this all over your blog. My bad mate, I must have completely overlooked the recommended format. At any rate, thanks and great post!
stephen, this is really nice idea after dofollow/nonofollow and commentluv movement. i’ll try this plugin in my personal blog. thanks.
just realize something, you also give this plugin a comment preview! nice
This will be one of the plug-ins that I will include on my WP blog on my new website. This is really a great way for us to attract new unique visitors, thus generating traffic. Really a good idea!
I am glad people are looking for ways to reward people who do leave valuable comments. Why should we all suffer because of the few people who want to abuse the system.
Great work keep it up
This is a great post. Thanks for letting us know of another way to reward our visitors for contributing to our website. I’m sure it will help increase traffic and comments.
Thanks!
KeywordLuv is the best plugin if you want to encourage more people to post comments on your blog. But once it gets popular you will need also good plugin to filter spam comments.
Thanks for the free download – this is such a great concept!
Ok, I added this plugin to one of my blogs thinking it would be great to share link juice. But, all I did is get 500 errors when I or anyone else tried to use it. I was wondering if anyone out there has any experiece with the Revolution themes. If you do and you know how to set it up so this plugin will work please help me out. I would like to thank anyone who responds in advance.
awesome! i just had the commentluv recently installed in my blog and learning that there is a “keywordluv” for wordpress, ah, can’t help but be hopeful that there would be a blogger version in the future too. ^_^
way to go for this brilliant plugin! ^_^
This is the first time i have seen this and was trying to comment on one of your other posts but i guess here will do as just want to say thank you as with a website only 2 weeks old i have learnt a lot already from your site. Thank you
It says
1. Upload the plugin folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
1. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
but not sure how to do it
Help me
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.
All peoples/blogger love to blogwalking at blog like this one, keywordLuv Plugin is the best way to promote our blog to the world.
Nice Plugin Stephen.
I am going to install it right now at http://www.theincometeam.com/blog
Thanks
Steven
Just installed KeywordLuv on both my blogs – and it works perfectly. Thanks for the plugin- and I’m going to write a post about it. Appreciate the follow – and the plugin.
Great WP plugin!
I just saw it on Jack Humphrey’s blog and I’m going to install it on mine :>
Thanks
Tim Buttles
Have you ever thought about porting the KeywordLuv to Blogger? It would be a great help.
Hi…this is a fantastic idea!
It’s so annoying when people comment on a post and insert keywords that they’re trying to rank for in the name field but never leave their actual name. It’s like they’re trying to hide something and it’s really infuriating. Then…along comes KeywordLuv to the rescue, it’s very clever and yet very simple. Now you can actually have your cake and eat it too!.
I was alerted to this by a link in Jack Humphrey’s blog (The Friday Traffic Report).
John O’Hara
United Kingdom
What an amazing plugin – cannot wait to download this plugin and install it.
Wow. I didn’t know there could be a plug in like this
This is great for people who want to build backlink and for the webmasters to gain more traffic
Thanks for this Plugin
this plug-in rocks. thanks for the tips paul!
Nice plugin Stephen,
I’m going to install right now and will include mention of it on my blog in a post about encouraging more comments which I was doing research for when I found you. And I’ll add it to my plugins resources.
Should help with socialization on a blog encouraging comment interaction.
Good thinking!
John
It is great that keywordluv now plays nice with commentluv. From a blogger’s point of view, is there any special advantage to using both? Or is that luv overkill?
This is good! I am going to install it in my blog!! Thank you!
I can’t say I’ve ever seen more comments on a post than this one
The thing I like most about the KeyWord Luv plugin is that it makes peoples blog comments look like one big spammy mess. Plus, people will actually spend time posting comments. Thank you for allowing it to be used on your site.
Wow, this is a terrific plugin. Thanks.
Thats a nice plugin. But whats the main idea? I can type my name either ways that way?
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You can type it in, but you didn’t! Anyway, it gives you better anchor text and removes the temptation for you to leave your name out…
The plugin certainly does inspire comments, but I’d question how many commentors return to really add value ongoing to your site’s community. Then again, if you’re looking for CPM-based advertising, getting 200+ “relevant” comments on each post is actually pretty attractive.
I use both keywordluv and commentluv on my blog, and I love getting the comments (the interaction) so it’s a win-win! I certainly don’t mind giving my visitors even more value than my content
)
So then why doesn’t this blog have no follow tag removed?
Hi Anthony, as I’ve said in the comments above, this blog is dofollow on posts, nofollow on pages. This is a page.
Guys just installed the keywordluv. you can leave your comments there if you want. I will approve it immediately as long is it is related to the post. KeyworldLuv really rocks!
Hi Bleuken,
Thanks for trying it out. I’m heading over there now!
Just downloaded the keywordluv plugin and using soon.
The tool is really useful for me. I was looking for such a great tool, thans I have got this.
The beauty of a post like this is that lots of people have commented – 265 so far. Whilst many people will only read the first 2 or 3 comments, nearly all will read the latest comment. What is more, quite a number will receive an email follow up when someone (like me) makes a further post.
This alone, can bring fresh eyes to your blog without having to do any other kind of SEO.
Can you guess the subject of my blog? I bet you can’t.
Comments are welcome.
Thanks for clarifying this! I had commentluv on my blog and just recently switched to Disqus. Have you compared those two different commenting motivators? I’m blogging in the highly competitive Denver Real Estate market and every comment makes a big difference in our readership. I’ll be happy to switch back– specially since FiddyP is such a funny guy!
I don’t have any great resources out here for expertise so I’m happy to get your input. Thanks in advance
-Bob Maiocco
Thank you!, I am learning alot about blogging and this certianly help those of us that are on the low side of the learning curve.
I hope that this really catches on and alot more bloggers within my niche would find this. I will tell myself!
The problem I have is that most of the horse related blogs I find are blacklisted, and that doesn’t do me any good to get a link from them correct?
Thanks for your help.
Yes this is a great plugin and all because it encourages more comments on your blog BUT…wouldn’t it also encourage more spamming on your blog and thus more moderating??
My question is…is it worth it? Especially if you have a High PR blog…such as this one?
I for one think this will build a hell of a lot of traffic for your site, not matter what the niche is because you can leave keywords. The only thing is spamming, there’s a lot of people that will leave a short message that makes no sense to the post you have just written. This kind of bothers me, I wish that you could limit comments to at least 20 or 30 words so you can get more content to your blog. Because the more content you got, the more traffic you’re going to get your blog.
Thank you for all of the valuable information. I was not aware of the information about anchor text. That really does make a difference. Does it matter so much, when you make a comment on a blog, if that blog has a high page rank? I would think you are looking for sites with a high page rank, but you have to be respectful, and remain on topic. I would always hope that my comments would be relevant to the topic presented, and not just do some random rambling. My goal is to contribute to the experience.
Thanks for the ‘Luv,’
Kevin
I really appreciate plugins such as these. It can be really difficult starting up a new blog from scratch. Links seem to be more king than is content. With the web so paranoid about who they link to it can be rather difficult getting anything off the ground. I appreciate all those bloggers out there that use some form of do follow plugin. We have added NOF to the dailydrinker.com to help share the love and hopefully encourage people to comment. From what I have read it seems to me like we need to help each other police these plugins useage closely as the last thing we want is for people to abuse them leaving us with a penalty from the search engines.
I agree that SPAM has shaped the way we interact nowdays. But its good to see people working positively. Getting nofollow tag has definitely hurt most of the webmasters as not everyone is a spammer. A pretty normal he/she would like to see his/her site get popular on every aspect (even if he ain’t an SEO or hired one). Therefore, dofollow is a discriminating IMO. There are some obvious exceptions like bulk loads of spammy text about porn, gambling, warez site which need to be curbed.
Thanks alot
Regards
Love the doFollow idea and point so many blogger are not spammers and shouldn’t be punished for it.
Blogging is fun and very rewarding for all who participate. I just started (3 months ago) blogging and love to see people such as your self posting such helpful info.
I’m still in the stage of building up my content and getting traffic into the site. I’m having so much fun.
Thanks and great post.
I found this plugin a few weeks ago and I installed it on one site just to see what would happen
True to form, I have noticed an increase in traffic. A lot of the comments I get are getting hit by Askimet and tagged as spam. I figure if Askimet considers something as spam, then more than likely it is.
I have also found that people do not read any comment requirements such as link to something that is useful. I really don’t see how a link to a college in some country I have never heard before is going to benefit anyone, excpet the college itself.
I guess thats the price we pay. Overall my experience has been great with the plugin. I plan on installing it on some of my other sites.
Great plugin!! I just noticed that this page has 87k+ backlinks
This is great!!
Hey Stephen,
I am using the comment/keyword luv plug in on feeder blogs that I create with a broad themes to help them get higher PR. I then use these feeder sites to give my niche sites and sniper sites more Google juice.
This works great and does not take much time to create the sites compared to the benefit of helping the ranking for my money sites.
Greg
I have a problem. Very often, when I comment on a keyword luv blog, my comment disappears after I have written my comment and clicked submit.
Why is that? Have my comment really disappeared – or has it just ended up in a secret moderation queue somewhere?
Hi Karl,
Most likely you’ve fallen foul of the Akismet spam software that most WordPress blogs run. You can always contact Akismet and ask for ‘reconsideration’…
Can this plugins use on my blog with blogspot.com ?
Hi Helen,
No sorry, it can’t be use with Blogger. It would be possible to do something with JavaScript, but that wouldn’t be ideal as it Google would only see the original link, so there’s be no SEO benefit.
Funny stuff people come up with. This basically means that all comments are written only to promote oneself and not actually add any benefits to the original post…
I think this is great plugin! However, I find it really odd that some people use this plugin on their blogs and then accuse people of spamming when they post a couple of legitimate comments. Very odd considering that I figured most bloggers use this plugin as an incentive for more people to post. Aside from that, it’s a great plugin!
Do you have commentluv for blogspot too?
Victor,
I believe CommentLuv is available for Blogger, but you’ll have to visit the commentluv site – it’s nothing to do with me (I wrote KeywordLuv, not CommentLuv).
Ok, I am a little new to this and can’t figure out where to register a site for particular keywords. Must I install a feed to my site?
Umm, just don’t enter Camping Chair as your name – enter Pete@Camping Chair… (or whatever your name is).
Cool feature but why make it no follow defeats the idea surely?
Hi Graham,
Sure. You need a separate DoFollow plugin as well as KeywordLuv. This blog used to use DoFollow plugin, but I had to disable it because of the mountains of spam and borderline spam I get. I’ve left KeywordLuv running as a demo for anyone who may want to use it.
Too sad that it’s not follow now. You were right about new blogs – yes, it’s really useful when you start, but after some time – it’s really a nightmare! lots of spam comments
Hi Stephen,
Even though you’ve made the decision to go nofollow it is very good of you to continue to support KeywordLuv. We use it along with CommentLuv in all our blogs and still recommend it for creating an interactive community on blogs. Fortunately we haven’t encountered any issues using it.
I believe that although they may cause a lot of spam, these types of plugins are good in the long run for bloggers. They encourage comments on our blogs which can only help our own rankings (providing they are on-topic). They of course help the other person ranking too.
Spam… it will always exist. In fact I believe that as the years pass it will only get worse as spammers find all new ways to get their spam in. We have to deal with it the best we can.
I think this is great plugin! However, I find it really odd that some people use this plugin on their blogs and then accuse people of spamming when they post a couple of legitimate comments. Very odd considering that I figured most bloggers use this plugin as an incentive for more people to post. Aside from that, it’s a great plugin!
I have installed the KeywordLuv plugin on all of my sites. I think that it has certainly enabled more blog comments than ever before and I luv it!
I would recommend the plugins,
comment luv and top commentator as well as keyword luv.
there will still be some spam to filter out as there are still plenty of spammers out there.
-Joshua
Thanks for this info about keywordluv and dofollow. It generates a crazy number of comments but this can be difficult to find the time to moderate. I see the benefit of keywordluv is to the comment poster, it provides a good incentive to post a comment but are these comments adding value to the blog content or leeching the value? I suppose it depends on on diligently it is moderated but here again, the time factor. At some point one may have to change strategy to lessen the amount of posts. It is, however, a great way to generate initial interest in the blog.
Hi Dave,
I agree with everything you say. The benefit to the blog owner is that Google seems to like blogs which get lots of comments and, as yet, it doesn’t seem to mind dofollow blogs either.
Thanks for a cool plugin Stephen, I attended a webinair with James Jones last night and they mentioned Keyword Luv. What a great idea. Just verify you also need to install the Do Follow plugin as well to make this beneficial for those leaving comments on your blog.
I take it the benefit is twofold, you can get a backlink from another site by leaving comments on their blog and if you have the plugin on your blog, Google likes seeing relevant comments on your blog.
i wonder what that means for the future of dofollow when this is a nofollow blog — yikes. well thanks for the plugin gonna install it regardless.
i’m going to experiment with it on my own blog and report the results on the blog itself.
wish me luck!
I have noticed a lot of the marketing gurus are starting to teach their students to use luv sites to boost a sites rankings in the search engines. They do not recommend abandoning social marketing. They find that a good combination of the two are worth the efforts in keeping a site ranking high in Google. I am working on opening up about 10 new sites. I am interested to see how much effort it is going to take to keep up with the comments and spam. Hope it is not too much work. The more sites a person has the harder it is too monitor the comments.
is there anyway I can integrate Keywordluv in blogger blogspot? thanks..
Hi Murkcore – Unfortunately, there ‘s no way to use it with Blogger. Any solution would have to be via JavaScript, which defeats the purpose (as the search engine spiders wouldn’t see it).
thanks Stephen. I found a comment platform called Intense Debate and it has a CommentLuv plugin.. I’m using it now on my blogs..
The keyword luv plug in is excellent but, those spammers are relentless. Even though I have clear instructions on my site that I will delete any comment that doesn’t contribute to the post or the website in general, I still get a bunch of “nice site”, “good job” type of comments. If people would take the time and construct intelligent comment that contribute to the main topic of the site or post, what a benefit this plug in would to us all.
I’d like to contribute in Bahasa Indonesia translation for this plugin.
Is that possible at this moment?
Hi Dhany,
Umm sorry, I haven’t made it translation ready. I do plan to do this for all my plugins, but things keep getting in the way. I’ll contact you at some point in the future to see if you’re still interested.
Okay, just let me know when it’s ready.
I’m a big fan of the keywordluv plugin. It provides people with more incentive to comment and interact. It’s such a shame that there seems to be no end of spammers there to abuse it and the dofollow privilege.
-Daniel
This has got to be one of the greatest plug-ins ever made, rewarding people for commenting on your site is a fantastic idea and it has drawn a lot of traffic to my blog I have to say, unfortunately there is also a lot of spam I will have to implement the spam questions you have on your site.
I am never quick about making changes but I’ve been hearing so much about keyword luv and comment luv that I felt I must. So, I acquired the two WordPress plug-ins, activated them and began watching my comments increase inormously.
On the one hand I love the traffic. On the other hand I hate it because a large part of it is spammish in nature. Can anyone please tell me how I can solve that issue. It’s really, really bugging me.
Great looking site and thanks for adding these plugins! I just added them recently to my site and they rule! More posts and your site plus backlinks for people posting so everyone wins! You just have to keep an eye on spammers, but Askimet does a pretty good job of taking care of that from my experience. Thanks again!
Hey Stephen,
I’ve been using your KeywordLuv plugin for many months and find it extremely useful to build page ranking amongst others. I use it on all my sites and it works perfectly.
Keep up the great work!
Sincerely,
Mike
@ Calvin Miller, I have not yet come across Commentluv – Will check that one out now, thanks. In peoples opinion does the new content on pages help blogs perform better in google outweigh the negative effects of keywordluv (spam and taking PR away from the website)?
I recently installed Keyword Luv, and noticed it displays the link information with the name. In my recent comments widget it shows up fine, i.e. “Ryan from Metacom Creative Design” but on the actual post pages in the comments section, it would displays “Metacom Creative” class=”url” rel=”external nofollow”>Ryan@Metacom Creative Design
I also find this weird, as I have the DoFollow plugin installed. Do you have any ideas of what would cause this? I can try deactivating plugins one by one, but I figured you might have seen a similar problem before.
Hi Ryan,
I just left a comment on your blog and I can see the problem now. It’s a new one to me, but I’ll look into it and get back to you.
Hi Ryan,
Did you have to turn on Compatibility Mode in the KeywordLuv settings?
Hi Steve,
Thank you for your reply, I appreciate the help! I must have overlooked the “Compatibility Mode” setting. I apologize for not being able to figure that one out myself, but it does seem like that did the trick!
Thanks again,
Ryan
Hi Ryan,
Glad that worked. I wasn’t sure… Sorry again about the delay.
Just a question, what if the blog is nofollow ? does using comment luv help with the ranking ?
I a; asking this because I have people asking me to install comment luv on my comment although it is nofollow, to me it doesn’t make any big difference but I I’d like to make sure.
Cheers
Hi Aurelien,
It would help your commentators in Bing and Yahoo, but in theory not in Google (although there are few people who say some value is passed).
I have been asked whether KeywordLuv still works in WordPress 3.0 and know of one blog that has upgraded and it is still working. I thought others might want to know. We’ll know more when we upgrade additional blogs.
If anyone wishes to know more about KeywordLuv they can read about it in my post linked to this comment which can also be reached from the Twitter account @KeywordLuv.
I meant to mention that I remain unconvinced that having hundreds of dofollow comments in a KeywordLuv enabled post which each have two links hurts pagerank.
My blog is currently PR4 and my post about KeywordLuv which has 443 comments in it is PR4. If all those links hurt my PR how could that post have the same PR as the blog? It is the ONLY page on that site that was PR4 last time I pulled that information.
I have many other PR3 pages that have hundreds of comments – all of them dofollow with both CommentLuv and KeywordLuv dofollowed outgoing links. If being dofollow hurts PR you can’t prove it by me.
I have just discovered keywordluv – it looks like a really good way to engage people on your site and it also looks like a really helpful way of getting your seo off the ground if you have a new site. Thanks for this post.
I went here because it was the top result in google for keywordluv. Thanks for the great plugin but I guess you don’t really want compliments. I don’t know why it’s so bad if people just leave a short “nice thanks for the plugin” comment… sometimes people just want to say thanks. No offense but if you want better replies you need forums not blog comments.
Hi Meili,
No offence taken!
I wouldn’t mind if most of the comments were genuine, such as yours. It’s just for every decent comment I get about 40 or 50 that just aren’t genuine – they are just after the link and it’s so obvious. I used to be much more forgiving, and I had a nice little community going, but the spammers killed it and I toughened up… But I’m happy to still get genuine comments every so often – Thanks.
Hi Stephen,
I maybe a little late to the party here but I just found out about this plugin. It’s amazing what you find online everyday
Anyway, I found this plugin in action on another blog, found a link and here I am. I really like this idea as it personalizes the commenters a bit more but the concern for abuse by spammers is inevitable. I want to encourage conversation but I don’t want to spend my time moderating thousands of useless crap comments. Maybe combining it with good anti-spam plugins would be the key.
Hi,
I am very intrigued by how you have integrated the keywordluv plugin only on one of your pages. Is there an easy way to do it? I am sorry to ask this off topic question but I would really love to use this on my blog as well.
Hi Akhila,
Basically I stopped using KeywordLuv for a variety of reasons, but needed it to run as a demo on one page. I hacked the plugin to make it do this, so unfortunately there’s no easy way to make it do this. Sorry.
Hi,
Thank’s for this plugin.
For your future update :
Notice: get_settings is deprecated since version 2.1! Use get_option() instead
keywordluv.php L33
replace by get_option(‘siteurl’)
Helpful info. Fortunate me I discovered your website unintentionally,
and I’m stunned why this accident did not took place in advance! I bookmarked it.
Hello,
I just recently found out about KeywordLuv and stumbled on your article while doing some research. Thank you Stephen for the info. I was just wondering, I have also heard about CommentLuv. Even though, you have removed this plugin from your blog, which one would you recommend between the 2… or is there basically no differences between them? Thanking you in advance for your help.
Antoun Sehnaoui
Amazing plugin! Good SEO tool and a great way to get users more interested in posting comments. Bookmarked!
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