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Link Building Tricks With CommentLuv and KeywordLuv
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.
“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.
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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.
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.
This plug-in really helped to increase human traffic on my WP sites.. The only thing I’m disappointed about is, I still do get scam messages.. Messages that doesn’t relate to the article that I’ve written - surely, they won’t get posted.
Nice plugins, I will install it in my wordpress.
Very much the helpful information. Many thanks to the author.
Good tips for finding Commentluvvers. I’m still after the list that shows page rank/dofollow/commentluv/keywordluv all in my niche. Maybe I’ll just have to do the work myself…
Great plug-in. This really increased readers who take interest to my site. This is not only good to article writers, but as well as promoting your business with a good cause.
i try this plugin, and get a lot of comment plus loyal visitor. glad
thanks for the Luv…. great artical btw
I’m currently on blogger, but the more I read about these ‘luv’ plugins the greater the pressure gets for me to switch to wordpress. I’m not sure I’m ready for the plunge yet… but I’m sure the time is coming…
I like this keywordluv plugin.
I look forward to seeing this plugin more widely used amongst the community.
This is a great plug-in and an excellent idea to reward participants to your site with a backlink to theirs as well as making the comments part of an article look much more professional. Lets hope its use continues.
KeywordLuv has big potential if you want to encourage more peoples to post comments on your blog and possibly increase your traffic. But it should be installed together with a good plugin to filter spam comments.
Keywordluv…I would still be working a nine to five right now if this tool wasnt out. It brought me so much traffic and revenue that my internet business is now lucrative enough to live off of….God bless keywordluv
i luv luv this plugin, I dont know why anyone wouldnt.
This plugin truely helps traffic flow to your site. thanks for this. I sure hope it continues!
I just love this!!!!
Thanks to the makers of CommentLuv!!!!!!
Definitely… this plug-in is one of the best. It feels good to comment on topics we’re knowledgeable of, at the same time, gets a reward from doing so. Love this! =)
Commentluv is pretty cool because then it just uses the title of the post. Make sure you have good title tags though haha.
Keyword luv is great for any website comment luv is better for blogs because you get 2 links. They both work well but for a blog comment luv and keyword luv together make the best combination.
I’ve seen a lot of sites that do use both Keith. I wonder how much additional traffic those two plugins will generate for a site. Most of the sites I’ve seen using those two are also ranked fairly well for their keywords.
I knew about KeywordLuv but never knew about CommentLuv. Awesome plugins and good that you are using at least one of them (may be both). Thanks.
Interesting plugin. Is there any disadvantage to the blog owner for using this?
hi, that is great plugin…but it doesn’t gives any type of confirmation that comment is approved or awaited for moderation..
i like the information provided by you plz keep sharing…
This is the best plug in, thanks for the information provided.
Hello,
thanks for the post. I am really learning alot!
SEO is like walking into a tunnel that branches off into a thousand different tunnels, each leading to something new. CommentLuv and KeywordLuv are the treasure chests at the end of one of the tunnels!!!
Cheers,
Bodi
CommentLuv do bring me to your site.. interesting plugin… will get one for my blog hehe.. Will it attract more spammer to your blog?
Nice plugin, I will give it a shot!
Thank you. Great post about commentluv. Web is all about people interacting, and anything that removes the barriers (kind of like Berlin Wall) is good with me.
steve
Thanks, it’s a great plugin and I will start using it now too. It would be interesting to see if it attracts spam or not…
Really cool plugin, I just love it
Thanks for highlighting keyworkluv to me. I’m looking to attract visitors to my new tech blog and this looks like an effectiove tool (as well as for building backlinks as well).
I really like both of these plugins!
These plugins have shown to be so useful for both bloggers and commenters its a win win relationship
As Jon highlighted in the very first comment, its also a very good method of emphasising the latest post on your blog and hence building some deep level linkage. As with anything though i can see this system eventually being over run with spam - it would be nice to think it won’t happen but as with all things relating to SEO, something, somewhere as hot to give eventually.
Very informative article. I switched my blogs to do-follow and keyword luv recently too. Thanks
- Jack
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
So many people have really taken to liking both of these plugins.
I know I have taken a liking to both the plugins, they are a very nice addition to the blogging community.
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
I have read a few of your posts and they are all interesting and informative…keep up the good work.
So what if your looking for a site that has keywordluv and commentluv. Do you type in “this site uses keywordluv” “enable commentluv” then the keyword?
Love both of these plugins they have become so useful for both blogger and commenter
These plugins increase traffic, Beneficial for both webmasters and surfers alike. Thanks, you’re very generous.
I have to say that I really like the keyword luv plug-in, but you do still have to watch out for people commenting as spam. But it looks like it works for you because you have so many comments!!
i Love keywordluv plug-in, thanks for this great article
Hi,
Amazing plugins.
Keywordluv and commentluv are really helpful from both blog owner and commentator point of view.
Well its nice information.
Thanks for sharing.