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In order to gain site traffic, you must build links. Its inevitable. There are no magic formulas or little red easy buttons to make this happen. Most sites build their links manually until the site picks up steam and are able to gain links from great exposure and content. There are two great plugins for wordpress that will help you in your quest for site exposure and search rankings.
KeywordLuv is a Wordpress plugin that gives a dofollow links to the commenter with their preferred anchor text without the commenter being perceived as a spammer. Its a great way for blog owners to get regular readers and commenters. According to the keywordLuv site:
“When your readers leave a comment, they should leave their name and keywords in the Name field, using the following format: name@keywords.
When posts are displayed, the plugin searches for the @ character, strips it out and moves the name to front (outside the link).”
CommentLuv is a Wordpress plugin that parses the rss feed of the website that the commenter entered. It displays a link to the most recent post and typically makes the link dofollow. Although, you will find some sites do still utilize the nofollow attribute with commentLuv.
So you may be asking yourself: “thats great if I find a site that uses those plugins and encourages commenting”. Well, its much easier to find those sites than you may think.
As an SEO Consultant I spend a great deal of time reading articles related to my industry and marketing in general. Because I spend so much time educating myself, I find that it was easy for me to link build at the same time. Although, I do read articles at sites that do use nofollow, I typically only reward sites with my readership when they reward comment links with linkjuice. I am very careful not to spam these sites, I read a post and when I have a value added comment, I simply leave it and voila! A link.
I do work up front to make sure I am viewing sites that will benefit me with great information and links. Chances are, if an SEO related site is not willing to share a dofollow link, they are more than likely not going to share the best information they have either. Granted, we all have techniques we are not going to broadcast, but my goal for this site is for someone to be able take and use this information to help their site be more successful. Authors that take this same approach are the ones I enjoy reading.
Alright, so lets use Google to find some of these value added sites. We are going to start with a random search. First I tried porpuses, but I misspelled that and ended up searching for dolphins. Am I an avid dolphin fan? Well, no. However, I grew up around the ocean and had some cool experiences with dolphins. So lets assume that I wrote a post about dolphins.
For keywordLuv, the default text that is added to the site below the comments is:
“This site uses KeywordLuv. Enter YourName@YourKeywords in the Name field to take advantage.”
So I did a search like this in Google:
“This site uses KeywordLuv” dolphins
The text in quotes will show text that matches it verbatim. The second part is where you want to include the word or phrase that closely relates to your site or recent post. The first page that was returned in the search was The Elusive Dolphin Photo.
And on that page, we lucked out…we have keywordLuv, commentLuv, and the blog is a part of the dofollow movement.
So after looking at the photo, I would simply read the post and leave a comment. In the name section I would leave the following:
Jason@Dolphin Photos
My website about dolphins would now have a link with the anchor text “Dolphin Photos”. After I submitted the comment, commentLuv would parse my last post and place a link to it at the bottom of the page like:
My Cool Dolphin Experience –pretend that was a link…
Speaking of commentLuv, it is a great way to get deep links into your site. So in order to find a site that uses commentLuv, search for the following:
“Enable CommentLuv” dolphins
You will find sites related to dolphins that use commentLuv. Read the posts and leave a great comment. Now you have two great links, one to your home page and one deep into your site using the title of the page, which is almost perfect SEO.
One thing I must point out, abusing these techniques will only make site owners discontinue use of commentLuv and keywordLuv. So don’t do it. Also, Always Check The Comment Links For Dofollow Links Before Reading. There is nothing worse than reading a super long post (like this one) and than leaving a super long comment, only to find out that the link doesn’t even count!
Happy Link Hunting! By the way, this site is a dofollow blog.
August 20th, 2008 at 1:37 am
Wow. KeywordLuv looks interesting.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:30 am
I just installed KeywordLuv plugin, I am hoping this will increase the communication with visitors to my site. I really like finding KeywordLuv plugin sites, I think this is one of the more interesting Wordpress plugins. I’m dofollow too, come visit if you want to make a good comment!
August 20th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
I am wondering if you have seen an increase in comment spam since you installed commentluv. Also, do you know if Google has deprecated comment links?
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:30 am
Really good tips and fresh article because I was using this technique and found your post because of it. Looks like you’re ranking well mate!
Cheers,
Ryan
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
@Realtor Websites, I actually have not installed comment luv…basically because I just haven’t taken the time. And I received just as much spam when I was a nofollow blog. Anti spam software works great
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
@Ryan, thanks
August 26th, 2008 at 11:08 am
I really love the tips. I found it very useful and tutorial. We are actually using these tips.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Awesome tips! I will have to put to use the “This site uses KeywordLuv” Search engine search to the test. It may be a very useful way to find new related blogs.
August 29th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I have indeed seen a significant increase in the number of comments on my blog since it became dofollow and used keywordluv. I now also search actively for blogs that have this plugin: they are so many great site that have it (like yours. From now on, I also subsribe to their rss feed to follow them.
August 30th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Thanks for the info, they sound like great plugins, looking forward to working with them.
August 31st, 2008 at 12:20 pm
This is very useful info to season the link building efforts. Thanks for sharing.
AZ
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:09 am
Neat trick, I’ve been searching for keyword luv blogs. When I search I keep finding blog post stating they’ve put keyword luv on their site. This way should be more targeted.
September 8th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Thanks for making life a little easy “KeywordLuv” and thanks for sharing and enabling it.
September 9th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I am very grateful for the information that you extend. Thanks for the tips.
September 12th, 2008 at 1:09 am
whoa!
nice tips!
i’ve never think about that before this..
September 16th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Keywordluv is a great plugin. Thanks for using it. Helps bloggers get more comments and readers get a backlink…win, win!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:22 am
Thanks for sharing,really good tips and fresh article because I was using this technique and found your post because of it. Looks like you’re ranking well mate!
September 24th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Wow! that is awesome tips! thank you so much for sharing a good stuff.
September 25th, 2008 at 1:39 am
The KeywordLuv plugin is great for website owners and visitors wanting links.
As long as we don’t abuse this method of linking, it should serve us well.
-Riggie
September 30th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
This plugin is great for multiple reasons but best of all its a win-win situation. The readers get to have a link to there website with the anchor text of their choosing. And the blogger gets more comments and traffic as a result of it.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:35 am
Hi Ryan,
I normally use the keyword in front of the search term. Just so you know, it works too. Thanks for your tips, they are certainly appreciated very much.
Walter
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:54 am
Thanks for this tutorial, it is very useful. Keywordluv is fantastic.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Great tutorial on how to narrow down the blogs that support comment love and use following links. I wonder if it’s possible to make a custom google search that incorporates these tips?
October 8th, 2008 at 6:04 am
It’s a great plugin, good to see such a buzz around it and many bloggers now opening up their comments with dofollows
October 8th, 2008 at 7:17 am
What a great tutorial! I really love keywordluv. Keep up the good work and good luck to you.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
thanks
October 9th, 2008 at 4:44 am
Keywordluv and Commentluv plugins have been a god send to any webmaster for SEO purposes and also my blog traffic has doubled in the last week due to commentluv traffic alone.
October 13th, 2008 at 5:24 am
What an amazing idea to reward your readers, something I can use too on my blogs
October 13th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
i just wish more people would use the keyword luv plugin
October 14th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Really interesting plugins. But it is dangeroues a little.
October 14th, 2008 at 11:02 am
This “sweet pair” have a big potential. Thank you for share.
October 19th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
What an amazing tool! I get to use my name and my keywords.
It a works for me, I checked out of the rat race early and retired in Mexico.
According to National Geographic, I live in the ‘Land of Eternal Spring’ on Lake Chapala, Mexico.
Gracias Amigo for Keyword Luv,
Joel
October 21st, 2008 at 12:53 pm
this is a dream come true to SEO guys, Thanks to keywordluv plugin’s creator!
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:46 am
oh hell yes, keyword luv comment luv do follow whatever you want to call it, fantastic, how did we ever cope without it lol. i have to say since being introduced to commentluv, i have completely changed my approach and my customers approach to blogging.
October 29th, 2008 at 1:40 am
I think that this is a fantastic way for the webmasters to get content, and for the readers to be reward for the contribution.
Imaging you blog with say 50 posts, where each post gets updated virtually every day? Google loves this sorta stuff!!
October 29th, 2008 at 2:49 am
Hi
Yeah KeywordLuv is a great plugin! Have you experienced problems with some sites with a short Name input field, too? I came across some sites with only 25 characters or so for the name and if you have a long name and want to use a longer keyword phrase, this might be to short?
Michael
October 29th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Thanks a lot for sharing a very interesting plugin’s. It is really a very useful tools that I might use.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:12 am
Thanks for this. I think both comment&keywordLuv are super additions to the webmasters tool kit.
Hats off to the inventor(s)
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:54 am
Thanks a million for sharing this - now the possibilities of link building are virtually endless.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:56 am
great plugin, i’ll install for several my blogs. thanks
November 6th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Thanks a lot for sharing this plugin. building link will easy
November 10th, 2008 at 2:06 am
Great plug in and gracious move. Will try making my blogger’s blog dofollow in that way, as even i searched could not find a solution like WP is given.
November 10th, 2008 at 8:09 am
That is really a good tool that I might use. Thank you for sharing a very cool stuff.
November 11th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Fantastic plugin and thanks for writing an article about how to make the best use of it to build backlinks. As an blog publisher, if my blog points back to my product sales page, I wonder if dofollow comments will hurt my efforts by diluting pagerank? My feeling is that dofollow works best for bloggers who are not necessarily pointing traffic to a particular sales page, but are looking to build up a reputation as an expert instead. Does that make sense?
November 11th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Thank you for the plugin. Your article really helps me a lot. I found a lot of things that I can use.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:33 am
I think that this is a fantastic way for the webmasters to get content, and for the readers to be reward for the contribution.Thanks Mon
November 14th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Wow, that’s a cool trick. It’s time to search google now for blogs with these plugins enabled. Thanks for sharing, this is really useful. keywordluv rocks!
November 15th, 2008 at 12:14 am
I just found out about this plugin, I think it will be a great asset to me along with comment luv.
November 16th, 2008 at 2:43 am
I personally feel that the commentluv and the keywordluv would go hand in hand when it comes to link building and driving traffic to your site. They are simple and easy to install plug-ins.
November 16th, 2008 at 2:45 am
I feel keywordluv and commentluv are both efficient plug-ins for the WP blog
November 19th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I think there is a big gap here and I will fall into it but commentluv will also give you other links inside your content from your last blog post. Let’s not overlook this feature.
November 19th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
I like the plugins, though I still wonder who the plugins help more. Those that post comments or those that use it on their sites.