The Importance Of Comments and Replies: + Plugins To Help With Each

Hello everyone, thanks for visiting my blog.

I was hoping to have the next video of the Newbies Guide created and online by now but last week I had so many things go wrong that I just didn’t have the time to create it.

I had optimized the sales page for Ease The Squeeze With Auctions and when I uploaded it the whole page turned Chinese. There had been an error in the loading code and no matter how many times I uploaded it I couldn’t correct it. So I deleted the page and started all over again, that was 3 days taken out of my schedule, but it’s done now.

Onto the blog post:

Regular visitors, that leave a comment, would have noticed that things have changed slightly.

I’ve added a few plugins to enhance my blog for the search engines. You see every time a comment is left the search engines view it as fresh content and the search engine spiders are all over it. The more comments, and replies, the better results you’ll get from the search engines.

Not only that but those that leave comments also generate back links to there website, which in turn helps their Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and helps move their website up the rankings. The more comments you leave on other peoples blogs the better your ranking will become, especially if you’re commenting on blogs that are in the same niche as yourself and you use keywords, where appropriate, in your comments.

The new plugins are:

CommentLuv: Allows people to automatically add a link to their last blog post to their comments. Which makes it easier for future visitors to click and connect to your blog. If you’ve seen blogs with commentluv installed on them you would have noticed the little heart shaped icon. If you register with commentluv then your details will appear in a small box every time someone hovers over the icon. Not only that but if you register yourself with commentluv then when you leave a comment on a blog that also uses commentluv you can choose from your previous 5 blog posts, allowing you to fine tune which of your posts is more relevant to the one you’re about to comment on. Thus allowing the chance of pulling some readers from that blog to yours.

WordPress Thread Comments: Allows you to reply to comments, and place your reply directly below the comment you’re replying to. Each of your replies are also viewed as a fresh comment, helping to feed the SEO spiders and increase your ranking. I used to reply to comments by editing the comment and leaving my reply beneath it. While this may look pretty it does not help with the search engines and there’s no way of automatically letting the person know that you have replied to their comment. With this plugin every visitor is able to reply to any comment and start a conversation going.

Subscribe To Comments: This little beauty does exactly what it says in the title. It allows you to subscribe to comments, by checking the box beneath your comment it will automatically send an email to you, and all of those that have previously left comments, every time a new comment is left. Allowing you to build a community and carry on the conversation. Don’t worry you’re not added to any mailing list and you can unsubscribe at any time by clicking a link within each email.

All of these plugins are FREE and can be installed by going to your WordPress admin panel, clicking the Plugins link and select add new.

Then just enter:

CommentLuv > search > install > activate.
WordPress Thread Comments > search > install > activate.
Subscribe To Comments > search > install > activate.

None of these need to be edited in any way.

To register with CommentLuv please visit http://comluv.com

Some blog owners may be concerned about seeing their name appear in the recent comments section to often. I’ve got over this by going to my widget section, finding my recent comments subtitle and adding & Replies to it.

Recent Comments & Replies now shows people that I read and reply to all of the comments left, which I hope will generate more comments being left.

Now let’s test it; shall we? Please leave a comment and let me know what you think of this new system I’ve added. Don’t forget to subscribe to comments and get any replies sent straight to your inbox.

Do you think this would benefit your blog?

What Plugins do you currently use and why?

Until next time,
take care, Barry

Update: Some readers have very kindly added information on other plugins that they have found useful.  I have installed the plugins and can say that they work a treat, and they have improved my blog.

Please read the comments left to find out more.

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