When Donnie adds a comment on this blog, he types http://www.dogstarcomics.com in the URL field and Donnie @ Digital Comics in the NAME field.
When Jason adds a comment on this blog, he types http://seo-hacker.com in the URL field and Jason @ SEO Marketing in the NAME field.
When Christopher adds a comment on this blog, he types http://www.technology.christopher-roberts.co.uk in the URL field and Christopher Roberts @ Technology Blog in the NAME field.
When people add comments on this blog and other blogs that employ the KeywordLuv plugin, they don’t merely type their first name or full name in the NAME field, but include anchor text that act as contextually relevant links to their URL.
By including an @ sign in the middle of their name and their URL keywords, the submitted result is something like this:
The next time you add a comment and include a URL that you’d like people to click to learn more about you, take advantage of KeywordLuv and emulate the above examples. Don’t mimic your URL in the NAME field, and don’t use the same words that appear in your URL domain. Be contextual, be relevant, and improve your website’s or blog’s search engine optimization.
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October 12, 2010 at 11:42 AM
It’s always a good idea to explain to your readers how to use some of the excellent plugins that us bloggers love to install. Keyword Luv is an excellent plugin, I have been using it on my blog for a long time now.
If a person writes something and nobody shares why that something is important, was it really written?
Thanks for sharing!
The basic principle of KeywordLuv explained brilliantly Ari!
What I love about this article is that my blog is the example! Its not often that another blog uses my comment as an example, so I thank you for that privilege Ari – I guess I must be doing something right!!!
You bet. I knew you’d be popping by here at some point so figured I’d surprise rather than ask.
Lol, thanks Ari, it was a really big surprise
Now, if you didn’t stop by and see your name, would you have otherwise known?
Oww! Very good, I also would not have learnt loads of new stuff from your blog, and got some great dofollow links
Do you see how your above keywords, “technology blog,” direct visitors to technology.christopher-roberts.co.uk but your more recent keywords, “technology bloggers,” direct visitors to technologybloggers.org? The first pair of keywords are contextual and enable search engines and people to understand what your *co.uk site is about whereas your second pair provides zero value as the keywords are extracted from the url itself?
May 17, 2011 at 11:39 AM
If I understand you right, you are saying that using ‘Christophergers’ doesn’t benefit the technologybloggers.org site as much as ‘Christopher’ would?
If so I see what you mean, but I am currently thinking more of branding. It’s the brand Technology Bloggers not any old Technology Blog that I am trying to convey to search engines and users.
Then again (if I understand you correct) maybe you are right… maybe it’s better to be seen in the Keywords of the link as Technology Blog as this will help more in the long term after the brand becomes more established…
I have changed it on this reply to humour you
Thanks for the feedback, you really made me think and evaluate the way I use these great tools you give us
Christopher – Technology Bloggers Admin Team
The purpose of KeywordLuv is in the keywords used. If you repeat the url of the website in the keywordluv, you miss the purpose.
May 18, 2011 at 4:51 AM
Or do I… I could put Technology Bloggers@Technology Blog, or I could put Christopher@Technology Blog. Both the same – right?
But with the second you know who I am, but now who the blog is… How about Christopher, Technology Bloggers Author.
Ok I see your point. I am thinking of permanently using Christopher@Technology Blog now…
October 12, 2010 at 3:30 PM
I am always glad to see bloggers sharing and explaining how to use CommentLuv and KeywordLuv. This is such an easy to understand post that you could even add a link named “How to use KeywordLuv” to it near the Name field so your readers and the search engines can find it easily.
I have a list of DoFollow CommentLuv KeywordLuv enabled blogs in the post I’ll feature in CommentLuv in this comment. I periodically add blogs to the list in that post for any blogger who adds a link to their blog in the comments.
Have you seen the feature Andy added at CommentLuv that allows you to link to any post or page of your choice with your desired anchor text? He calls them CommentLuv Default Links.
I hope you don’t mind me sharing that link; I find it challenging to find content on the ComLuv blog and wanted to make it easy for you to get to it.
Yeah, I need to improve the usability of the comment fields, such as your reference to linking to this post. I need to find a Thesis custom function to make it happen…
October 12, 2010 at 7:25 PM
Ari, I had KeywordLuv on my blogs in the past, but it off a while back.
Is there actual evidence that KeywordLuv improves Google search engine results?
It also seems like my comments are more likely to wind up in moderation when I use the KeywordLuv field. Let’s try it now.
My understanding, yielded to smarter people than me if wrong, is the “dofollow” attribute is frowned by Google but the backlinking nature of KeywordLuv improves the commenter’s SEO ranking. So, they even out.
October 12, 2010 at 8:11 PM
Hi John, Ari,
Most WordPress blogs will have the box checked that requires one approved comment before your comments go live immediately in a blog. That seems to use the name field (or possibly multiple fields) so if you use different keywords in the name field each variation will have to have one comment approved before your comments will go live immediately.
There are also bloggers who install KeywordLuv but do not welcome comments from people they do not already know. That can land you on the Akismet spam list – but you can end up there anyway if you are a regular commentator.
That is Andy Bailey at CommentLuv wrote a new anti-spambot plugin based on an idea from Phil Hollows at FeedBlitz and improved by a tip from Dazzlin Donna Fontenot. Many of us love it because it blocks more spam than Akismet ever did and has ZERO false positives.
I don’t know how much spam you get or how much trouble you’ve had with Akismet flagging you or your regular commentators as spammers but this plugin is saving me hours a day. I had so many real comments in among the spam and my spam was so bad (1,000+ a day) that I had volunteers reviewing my comments for me to get caught up!
Thanks for sharing your experience, Gail.
As for incoming spam, I receive lots of it here — about 200 or so spam comments every 24 hours… until I implemented a banning plugin, as elaborated in my latest list of plugins.
October 12, 2010 at 10:55 PM
Gail, thanks for the explanation, and my moderated comments problem was probably due to the reasons you state.
Now I wonder about what Ari just said about Google frowning on DoFollow comments. My main writing blog is DoFollow and I want to be sure I’m not causing myself problems. Maybe that’s a question for our good friend Kristi Hines.
Thanks for sharing, Alex.
I’m glad you posted this. To people who’ve used it, KeywordLuv seems like a no-brainer, but I know that I left lots of comments on KeywordLuv blogs in the past without using it, because I didn’t know what it was. When I finally caught on, I loved it, and of course, installed it on my blog, and now I think it’s a no-brainer, too. I read mostly KWLuv and ComLuv blogs, because it’s more worth my time and the blog owner’s, too.
–Maria
I noticed in one of the comments that it was suggested that google frowned on dofollow blogs? I cant see any reason for this as isn’t it this how google works!! Grant- Please let me know if I have got this wrong….
Google introduced nofollow for links that site/blog owners could not trust – like “I found this site (bad.com), but it has a virus, don’t go to it!”
You would not want to pass Page Rank to bad.com would you, hence nofollow.
Many blogging platforms put nofollow on comments, as the blog owners ‘could not be bothered’ to check if the commenters site is good or not. Good in some respects, for the blogger, but not for the commenter.
Dofollow shows that you trust your readers, and are willing to give something back to them, as they have read your content/clicked your ads/purchased your product etc…
Thanks for that Christopher, do wordpress blogs default to nofollow as standard? Grant
Unfortunatly, yes they do Grant…
I am assuming that installing CommentLuv over writes this?
I am afraid not Grant. I believe that CommentLuv has the option to make the CommentLuv link dofollow though.
On my philosophy blog, I use “KeywordLuv” and “Link Love” as these allow users to get dofollow comments, with the keywords they want, after a certain amount of comments on my blog (I choose three). Please visit my philosophy blogs comment policy for more details
P.S Nice blog
I have installed “KeywordLuv” and “Link Love” all went rather well. Thanks for all your help and advise. Grant
You’re welcome
Good to here it!
Hi Christopher
Would you know why when I hover over my commentLuv logo on my comments I dont get the info that appears on all the other comments on your page?
Thanks Grant
Huh? Two different plugins, two different purposes.
Yeah, the other (Link Love) lets you set an amount of comments until dofollow is activated. My philosophy blog is set to three, so on your third comment, that comment and all previous comments are dofollow.
This helps to stop spammers getting dofollow links, if they accidentally slip through the net
Fixed it now- should get the commentLuv box- apparently I had not registered on the commentLuv site- Grant
Get a good spam filter, and nofollow shouldn’t be needed, and if it is, why not try out “Link Love”?
thanks for the explanation, cuz I really had trouble understanding how keyword luv worked to promote the blog… even how to use it in the context of the comments. Appreciated!
Glad to assist. The key is the keywordluv anchor text should not include the same words as your domain. They should support it, contextually.
I didn’t read all the comments so I’m sorry if this was already asked but what does Google think about keywordluv? It seems kinda like you’re gaming the system.
Anuj, I hope keywordluv helps to stop spam , like you suggest, as that would save blogers like me and Ari so much time!
This is the one topic that most internet marketing tutor missed. Usually they just provide methods for you to find keywordluv blog without mentioning anything about commenting right. I’ve always wondered why some blogs allow comments like this, now I know. Thanks!
thanks for the info about keywordluv, I have found that my blogs get less spam when using it.
That’s intriguing, as I see more.
But I still can not find the answer, if keyword luv decreases the owners PR?
I heard from a good source to keep the keywords after the @ symbol down to 2 or 3 words only. Thoughts?
I have been pretty liberal in approving comments, however recent extensive abuse is making me add to this post. Folks, I’m not stupid. I’ve been at this for years and I realize most of you are only looking for a link.
I agree with you. I know blog owners who can’t accept commentators putting keywords on the name field. I think keywordluv is win win for both blog owners and visitors. Blog owners get traffic and comments and visitors get backlink. It’s kind of beneficial symbiosis
That’s a fair statement from Villa. However, Seph also writes a good point. I guess there is positives and negatives. At the moment I think the positives of keywordluv outweigh the negatives
A nice article with a great stuff of information, I really like that. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Hi I am just wondering what are the most effective method on obtaining the best back links to your site that has good link juice.. I know keyword luv and comment luv work but do they really have effective link juice?
Hi Ari,
I agree with you. Having keywordluv plug-in will defintely benefits both blog owners and the commentators. But what I’m curious about is that if a blog that has “NoFollow” and using the keywordluv plug-in, does that mean the keyword will be relevant for the search engine?
KeywordLuv is actually a great plug-in, i was unaware of it and then one of my friends suggested that I use it…..Many people say it increases spam but no it doesn’t, its in your control.
Yes. The key, pun intended, is to use a keyword for the site; don’t use words from the site. So, if your URL is blah.com, don’t use blah as the keyword.
I think this plugin interesting, because you have the opportunity to gain a dofollow link that is increasingly hard to get nowadays and the advantage of it you can use a anchor text.
Hi Ari
Not noticed you had KeywordLuv… must be blind.
Just filled in my promotional bit.
Thanks for using the plugin.
Never apologize for being blind.
I agree with the folks that mention the word symbiotic. There might be downsides to keywordluv but the upside of the increased traffic has got to outweigh that. This site ranks high in Google and I have to think that keywordluv played a part in that.
I’ve tried the CommentLuv plugin and was drowning in spam. Is there an easier way to moderate using this plugin?
Can you elaborate what you mean by drowning in spam?
This plugin is very nice, in one way he promote your page with many comments and I give good backlink to people who leave’s comment.
March 31, 2011 at 2:45 AM
Using plugins like Keyword Luv and Comment luv can really boost the interactions taking place on your blog.
I have been lately using them and I must say that I have really seen a nice increase in the comments count and I have been getting consistent response for all my blogposts.
What sort of increase have you seen?
June 13, 2011 at 10:38 PM
Hey – does it give away all your link juice – your page rank – if you allow people to post dofollow comments? That is my fear…
Nope. If anything, it adds to others’ page ranks.
June 13, 2011 at 11:18 PM
Isn’t link juice a zero sum game? I give a bit to you, I lose what I give. I split it among 50 people and each gets 1/50. So if I am giving away dofollow links, I am NOT conserving it for my own site. Of course, I could be way off….
Thanks for the reply.
June 28, 2011 at 7:54 AM
Ari thanks for explaining KeywordLove so well. I am familiar with CommentLuv but I have only recently discovered keywordLuv. The tips in your replies to comments are also very much appreciated. I will be actively looking for Keywordluv blogs both the read and comment on in future. Any constructive comments would be much appreciated too.
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