How You Can Double Your Link Building Efforts

Written by Julia on April 16th, 2008. Posted in Articles

Blog commenting is becoming more and more popular as one of link building tactics. The comment author receives an extra link to his website or blog that favours the website exposure. And the blog owners are always happy to receive good comments – it's important for them to keep a lively interest to their posts.

Of course, a "DoFollow" backlink is a great reward for a valuable comment because it helps improve the search engine position. But the comment allows a reader have only one backlink and this link may have the commentator's name or nickname as the anchor text that doesn't mean much for search engines. 

So why not to reward the comment author with an extra link with more relevant keywords in the anchor text? This is an excellent way to promote the readers' websites and this can be done automatically with the use of a particular plug-in!

I'm talking about CommentLuv. The CommentLuv is a plugin for WordPress that will visit the RSS feed of the blog address the reader provided in the URL field, attempt to find the last post the reader made and display it under the comment giving the reader a great internal backlink to his/her website!

Example:

comment How You Can Double Your Link Building Efforts

Now many WordPress blogs are applying the CommentLuv plugin. The bloggers understand that it gives the readers an extra incentive to leave a comment, encourages people to add to the conversation by giving something back right away.

For the reader commenting on a blog that uses the CommentLuv plugin is great for the following reasons:

  • Second link to the website/blog. CommentLuv gives you an additional link, which is more advantageous than the link provided in the URL field because it has the post title as the anchor text. If you use your keywords in the post title, it will help you to rank well in the search engine results for those keywords.
  • More traffic and readership. When people look through the comments, they can see the titles of other commenters' latest posts. If the title looks interesting, there’s a good chance they will visit your site and read the post. Some of those readers can become your subscribers or buyers.
  • Help with PageRank and search engine results ranking. If the blog using the CommentLuv plugin is a "DoFollow blog", the link to your last post provided by CommentLuv will also be "DoFollow". So, not only will it send the readers to your website or blog, it will also pass you some PageRank.

These advantages are really extra incentives to leave a comment, aren't they?
 

How to search for blogs that use the CommentLuv plugin

 You may be wondering how to find relevant blogs with the CommentLuv plugin enabled on which to comment on. The answer is simple – use Fast Blog Finder or Google and type the search query like below replacing "your keywords" with your real keywords:

"Enable CommentLuv" +"your keywords"

By adding your keywords at the end of the search query, you will reduce the large quantity of blogs to blogs relevant to your niche. You can also use some of these search options to narrow and refine your search results.

For example, if I want to find the blogs that use the CommentLuv plugin and are relevant to the "Internet marketing" keywords, I type in the Blog Finder Gold Edition:

"Enable CommentLuv" +"Internet marketing"

By the time of writing this article I found 127 blogs with CommentLuv enabled for the "Internet marketing" keywords. 39 from these blogs were "DoFollow" and 74 "NoFollow".  

Well, I get at least 39 blogs where I can comment on. It's assumed that my comments are not spam, so I can hope to get 78 "DoFollow" links to my blog (because one comment will have two links: one for the anchor text in the Name field and the second one – a deep link to the latest post on my blog)! And we all know how valuable "DoFollow" links are. Just a couple of them can considerably improve your website ranking in search engines.

Of course, I gave a single niche example but you got the idea. Now you can change your primary keywords to your secondary keyword set and find one more hundred or two of blogs that use the CommentLuv plugin and are worth to comment on.

Few tips from me:

  • If you are going to comment on blogs with CommentLuv, make sure your blog posts have appealing titles including your target keywords. Not only will good titles attract the readers prompting them to click on your link, they will also help you rank well for your keywords.
  • If you use Feedburner on your blog,  you'll get a redirection link to your last post instead of the direct link to the article on your blog. You can read here how to disable the redirect.

Please, share your thoughts in comments.

 

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Comments (95)

  • Alpha ROB
    April 16, 2008 at 5:25 am |

    I hate link building, why cant search engines just rely on good old fashion on page optimisation, oh well its a good job software like yours is available, cant think of anything worse than trawling through page after page to find blogs.
    I think i will be spending the next few weeks using this method thanks.

  • Alpha ROB
    April 16, 2008 at 5:34 am |

    I just made a comment and wanted to ask this question re Dofollow, i have built several sites all containing a link to my main site (the sites are in all different industries), the problem is when i do a backlink check Google says i have none, should i place rel=”dofollow” in the link as i have not done this? i know what happens with rel=”nofollow”

    • Julia
      April 16, 2008 at 5:56 am |

      Hello,

      I just made a comment and wanted to ask this question re Dofollow, i have built several sites all containing a link to my main site (the sites are in all different industries), the problem is when i do a backlink check Google says i have none, should i place rel=”dofollow” in the link as i have not done this? i know what happens with rel=”nofollow”

      No, if you insert rel=”dofollow”, the link will not become DoFollow. There is no a DoFollow tag. You need to use a DoFolow plugin to make the links DoFollow.

  • Tony - Joomla Views
    April 16, 2008 at 5:55 am |

    CommentLuv is an excellent wordpress plugin, which as Julia stated, will not only bring you a link back to your main site via the comment and then an extra to an article, two prizes for the cost of uhm. none. :)

    Thanks for pointing out the FBF trick to find the commentluv enabled links, I will check it out right away!

  • April 16, 2008 at 5:55 am |

    That was a very interesting post. Keywordluv, have to admit I had never heard of that until your post brought it up. I am going to do like you said and search for that and see what come up. I for one, would love to get 2 links for the price of one, for sure. Thanks for the great post.
    Steve

  • amesh from RUK Broaband Providers
    April 16, 2008 at 6:04 am |

    Useful tip. But i don’t know what happen if the content of the page and the anchor we used to comment are irrelevant.

  • Nicole from Great Prices Here
    April 16, 2008 at 6:14 am |

    Its a good tactic. I have been looking for blogs with comment luv enabled. Actually planning to add hte plugint o my blog as well.

  • April 16, 2008 at 6:15 am |

    Great article! Thanks for the suggestion on finding the blogs also that use the Comment luv plugin, I hadn’t thought of trying that before!

  • Thomas Deeter
    April 16, 2008 at 6:17 am |

    Thanks Julia,

    I love this method and recently shared a video with my subscribers on how to do it. Your description is sooo much better than mine however! I see you have had time to actually install the plugin, that’s on my long list of things to do…

    Cheers,
    Tom Deeter

  • Data Modeler
    April 16, 2008 at 6:24 am |

    So this technique works with WordPress blogs…are there plugins for other blog applications? Or rumours of those types of plugins?

    Karen

  • Nutrisystem Review
    April 16, 2008 at 6:29 am |

    Hi Julia’

    Thanks for all the good information you have been giving. I presume that this works only for those websites which have blogs. In other words it won’t reference say the last page built on a web site.

    If you don’t have a blog on your site this won’t work?

    Terry

    • Julia
      April 17, 2008 at 12:49 am |

      @Terry

      Thanks for all the good information you have been giving. I presume that this works only for those websites which have blogs. In other words it won’t reference say the last page built on a web site. If you don’t have a blog on your site this won’t work?

      Yes, the CommentLuv plugin works only for the blogs. I tried to submit a comment providing the URL of a regular website http://www.experarticles.com and the CommentLuv didn’t find RSS and the last post on that website wasn’t provided under my comment.

  • Data Modeler
    April 16, 2008 at 6:29 am |

    Ok, so I followed the link to CommentLuv to see how it works in more detail. It seems to require that your own blog (not the one you comment on) to meet some technical specs that my blog doesn’t meet.

    But it also includes a description of adding some bracketed text to point CommentLuv to your own blog feed. I’m using that now in this comment. It seems to me that you’d have to check for certain that the blog author has enabled CommentLuv before using this technique, otherwise your extra text would show up in your comment.

  • April 16, 2008 at 6:32 am |

    Julia this is great stuff. I started using Blog Finder Gold, and my web site shot up to the #1 listing in Google for my anchor text “LASIK Surgery Resource”. Your insights and suggestions have been remarkably helpful. Thank you!!

  • Andrew from Squidoo Lenses
    April 16, 2008 at 6:39 am |

    This is very cool! I just HAD to make a comment and see it in action!

    I searched Google for CommentLuv and prowled around other websites, saw one at http://quityourdayjob.com.au that had a terse one line lasting of a past comment. I ‘ll be interested to see how this one looks!

    Obviously now I have to go and drag out my copy of Blog Finder and give this a try!

    Andrew larder
    MarketingSharks.com

  • eter from PSocial Marketing Strategies
    April 16, 2008 at 6:41 am |

    Julia,

    Do you know of a quick way to find KeywordLuv blogs to comment on? I tried a search based on what you have above but it looks like that is a custom message.

    Thanks!
    Peter

    PS: I use your Blog Finder tool and recommend it to lots of folks.

    • Julia
      April 17, 2008 at 1:48 am |

      @Peter

      Do you know of a quick way to find KeywordLuv blogs to comment on? I tried a search based on what you have above but it looks like that is a custom message.

      The KeywordLuv plugin has been released quite recently so there are not many blogs that use it now. However, you can use the following terms in your search query:

      "This site uses KeywordLuv. Enter YourName@YourKeywords"
      
      "Enter YourName@YourKeywords"
  • April 16, 2008 at 6:52 am |

    Will it hurt my rankings if I only add comments to Dofollow sites and no comments on Nofollow sites. I still haven’t seen any improvements in my rankings for “Exhibition stands”. How long do you think it will take before I see any improvements.
    Regards
    Mark Gallagher

    • Julia
      April 17, 2008 at 1:52 am |

      @Mark

      Will it hurt my rankings if I only add comments to Dofollow sites and no comments on Nofollow sites.

      I would recommend that you read this post on my blog if you haven’t read it yet
      http://www.fastblogfinder.com/can-dofollow-blogs-hurt-you/

      This post tells about when the comments on “DoFollow” blogs can hurt your website ranking.

  • April 16, 2008 at 6:59 am |

    Julia,
    Excellent post as always, I had not thought of searching for the CommentLuv plugin. This would indeed be a great way to get an additional link without additional effort.
    Keep the insights coming!
    Thanks,
    George

  • Make money now
    April 16, 2008 at 7:23 am |

    i have tried your system, it very good to build link. Unfortunately, it still depend on the webmaster to publish it or reject. The conclusion here, there are a lot of work to do. it take me a month to go.

  • revor from tda free bingo guy
    April 16, 2008 at 7:25 am |

    Julia, i have faithfully clicked every email you have sent and read every blog entry on your site. They are all good, and though i have been in the biz for too long ( lol ) i have never find anything wrong with your advice…

    Until now, ha ha. Getting two links instead of one makes no difference to Google, it counts only 1 link.

    Even if you have 500 pages on site A with multiple links to site B, only 1 link will count. I have read this in more place than one and even when you look at the math that was allegedly used to emulate the internal calculations that Google uses, this one link being counted theory really does make sense.

    Where having a second link would absolutely count, is in getting real traffic from readers who don’t realize that the name field of the author is a hot link.

    Do I have this correct ?

    Big T

    • Julia
      April 17, 2008 at 2:16 am |

      @Big T

      Until now, ha ha. Getting two links instead of one makes no difference to Google, it counts only 1 link.

      Even if you have 500 pages on site A with multiple links to site B, only 1 link will count. I have read this in more place than one and even when you look at the math that was allegedly used to emulate the internal calculations that Google uses, this one link being counted theory really does make sense.

      I also read about the “one link being counted” theory. I understand this means that if the site A has two identical links with different anchor text from the site B, only the first link to the site A is counted by Google. Yes, this makes sense. But in the case of CommentLuv it’s different. You are not getting 2 identical links from your comment. The links are different: the link with your Name as the anchor text will point to your website main page and the link provided by CommentLuv is a deep link to the blog’s last post. So, the links differ and both are counted.

      You can read this case study for more details
      http://www.seomoz.org/blog/results-of-google-experimentation-only-the-first-anchor-text-counts

      I must say this doesn’t affect the comments only. For example, if you post an article and include several links with different anchor text all pointing to the same target URL into it, only the first link (anchor text) will be counted regardless of varying anchor text.

  • April 16, 2008 at 7:35 am |

    Very helpful information! We always learn new pieces of helpful internet marketing information. The trick is putting these fantastic suggestions to good use.

    KeywordLuv is a new concept we were unaware existed. Thank you for all your great advice and recommendations. We look forward to your next post….

  • April 16, 2008 at 7:40 am |

    Thanks for such a great post on “How You Can Double Your Link Building Efforts”. It really gives your readers that extra incentive to post a comment.

    I seen CommentLuv plugin before in passing but never took the time to understand it. Thanks to your post,I now realize it’s something I should take more serious.

    By the way, has anyone use the WordPress Top Commenters Plugin / Widget?

  • April 16, 2008 at 7:59 am |

    Terrific concept… Julia. I’m impressed to see it working in the way it does. Although I’m impressed how clever scripts can be. Your GLock Software has pride of place on my desktop. Keep it coming…

  • Ebay Blog
    April 16, 2008 at 8:02 am |

    I enabled the commentluv plugin on my own blogs after seeing it in action on a number that i post on, I really do love this plugin and think it offers a great reward for commentators to ensure the debate is maintained. What I will maintain that it is also a possible spammers delight and so keep comments from auto publishing so as to avoid any instances as I battle to prevent the spammers :o )

    I do agree though that this is a great tool.

  • Takuya from Ewen Chia Working From Home
    April 16, 2008 at 8:53 am |

    This is a great post … I try leaving comments at other people’s blogs, hoping NOT to initially gain better positioning for a website, but hoping it will land me to something that’s outside my sphere of influence. And when possible, I’d like to expand that friendship to offline by nurturing it. This type of plug in will help marketers build partnership quickly if used with respect and goodwill.

  • April 16, 2008 at 10:54 am |

    HI,
    This is a great post, another informative post on linkbuilding. This site has helped me alot.
    Although I hate commenting on blogs, this would be the only blog I comment on, b’coz of the qulity and effectiveness of the information provided.

  • Margaret from Hot Topic
    April 16, 2008 at 10:57 am |

    Hi Julie
    Thanks very much for this tip. I have just started a new blog and want to get it indexed and ranked as soon as possible. Trawling through blogs looking for dofollow sites has always been a real drag with my other blogs, so Fast Blog Finder is fantastic.
    One thing I have noticed is that there tends to be more dofollow sites linked with internet marketing and SEO sites than with other niches. I guess the webmasters are generally more savvy.
    Margaret

  • ony from TJoomla Views
    April 16, 2008 at 12:11 pm |

    @Trevor – actually with a commentluv enabled blog, you do get two links for the price of one post.

    First you get the link with your name which generally tend to be for the main url and then commentluv grabs the last post from your RSS feed which is a deep submission really, and since the two won’t link to the same URL, there are actually two valid dofollow links to your web site from one comment.

  • April 16, 2008 at 12:17 pm |

    I am just struggling building back link for my blog. This tricks with commentluv plugin will make us half work time, meaning one comment two back links. That is interesting advice from your side.

  • on from JJB Design and Photo
    April 16, 2008 at 1:18 pm |

    Thank you for this excellent post and introduction to commentluv. I’ve just started using it on my own blog at moongrabber and it’s great to be able to give something back to commenters. Not only that but the Google search you provided is great for finding other blogs to get some commentluv from.

  • Paula from Affiliate Blog Online
    April 16, 2008 at 2:12 pm |

    This is a great tip!! Thanks for sharing.

    I have been using your Fast Blog Finder for a couple of weeks now and just love it. It has made finding links so much easier.

  • suicidalsam
    April 16, 2008 at 3:04 pm |

    I love this plugin. I am planning on placing this on soon on my blog too. and thanx for the search tips, i found a lot of blogs that were related to my article. I hope it does a lot of good in terms of search engine and backlinks. :D

  • rdi Panondan from AHealth Info
    April 16, 2008 at 3:18 pm |

    Informative article. Getting backlink is hard and needs much time. But there should be many tactics to reduce working time If we always try to find it. Thanks for sharing.

  • Paul
    April 17, 2008 at 2:18 am |

    “This is an excellent way to promote the readers’ websites”.
    Regarding comments on irrelevant Blogs, it is a widely held belief that there is no benefit in having links from irrelevant sites, but I dont believe this to be true. Links may offer little due to pagerank but I believe it all adds up in the “algorithm”

  • Richard McLaughlin
    April 17, 2008 at 3:32 am |

    Thanks for the post on CommentLuv, I have started plugging it in on my client sites and only telling them as an afterthought (bad boy).
    For the question on how to find a site using CommentLuv, take the quote below (in quotes) and search it as:

    “Enable CommentLuv which will try and get your last blog post, please be patient while it finds it for you” keyword

    I have a couple of pages on my site in Russian and the person who gave me that idea searched for the keyword ‘russian’

    A last trick you can do is never leave your dot com address, post a full link in the URL line that is directly related to the topic that you are commenting on.

  • April 17, 2008 at 12:16 pm |

    Getting 2 links for the work of one sounds great! I’m going to have to put this to use…where does everyone else sit on the irrelevent site post actually hurting your SEO efforts?

    Some say it has everything to do with relevant posts to blogs, some say it’s just the total amount of links. Does anyone have any research or study to show which is accurate?

  • April 17, 2008 at 3:24 pm |

    Unbelievable. I just searched for the exact phrase “Enable CommentLuv” on google, and there are 178,000 results. While not all of them are dofollow, I suspect there are some good ones out there as Julia indicated. This product, and the team behind it, is first class. Recommended.

    steve

  • pencer from Saffiliate marketing
    April 18, 2008 at 12:43 am |

    Thanks Julia! That’s one really super tip! I just wish more blog owners would get back with the program and remember what blogs were born to be. Informal communication portals between bloggers and their readership.

    I know the Internet has changed with eCommerce booming and all but lets not let those spam marketers ruin our good thing. Hey, everyone has probably got something for sale. So if we go back to the good days, simply post and make relevant comments that promote dialogue like you are allowing here we can not only see the success of a great product such as Blog Finder skyrocket, but we’d also see more quality products in all markets rise above the repackaged stuff that abounds nowadays.

    Anyway, thanks again – not only for the tips, but also for what a great tool your Blog Finder is.

  • chuck majeske
    April 18, 2008 at 10:08 pm |

    Thanks for the great tip, due to several night mares in the last couple of years i don’t have any cash to advertise the site i’ve been building for some time, so i have been looking for all the free stuff i can get to get my site out there. This will certainly help thanks again

    Pyro chuck

  • peter from Peter Answers
    April 22, 2008 at 8:18 am |

    Well, I came here looking for info on CommentLuv plugin but it looks like you have switched to using KeywordLuv plugin instead. I assume you like it better? I will check your website for article explaining why you are changing your recommendation. I am looking for plugin that improves communication and collaboration.

    • Julia
      April 23, 2008 at 3:34 am |

      Well, I came here looking for info on CommentLuv plugin but it looks like you have switched to using KeywordLuv plugin instead. I assume you like it better? I will check your website for article explaining why you are changing your recommendation. I am looking for plugin that improves communication and collaboration.

      I have two plugins – CommentLuv and KeywordLuv – enabled on the blog. As you can see there is a line in your comment that provides the URL to the latest post on your blog. So, CoomentLuv works.

  • T Cunningham from Rbuilding backlinks
    April 28, 2008 at 1:11 am |

    This a link building tactic that I recommend. It works great. By the way, I’m adding you to my master dofollow, commentluv and keywordluv list. Thanks.

  • on from JHGH Supplement Reviews
    April 29, 2008 at 2:58 pm |

    So the combination of the two plugins is fabulous and so is your website. I found it through a comment you left on another site and have been reading every article. I am going to download the free version and give it a test drive. If it is as good as it looks, I will be a paying customer soon.

    Thanks for all the good and straight forward information.

  • ara from sWomens Designer Shoes
    May 5, 2008 at 5:04 am |

    I think this is a fantastic plug-in find. Thanks for sharing. Oh and BTW, your software is easily the best I’ve used. I tried one of your competitors and, let me just say you definitely get what you play for.

  • May 7, 2008 at 4:50 am |

    The fast blog finder tools is very powerful, there is so much that can be done with it. I’m still learning but so far so good.

  • Jeff
    May 7, 2008 at 6:33 am |

    Thanks for the help! I have started using this advice for my blog postings and have noticed the results. In terms of SEO, I am curious how valid those double links are in terms of being counted by the search engines.

  • seo solutions
    May 8, 2008 at 1:27 am |

    Hello,

    I just made a comment and wanted to ask this question re Dofollow, i have built several sites all containing a link to my main site (the sites are in all different industries), the problem is when i do a backlink check Google says i have none, should i place rel=”dofollow” in the link as i have not done this? i know what happens with rel=”nofollow”

    No, if you insert rel=”dofollow”, the link will not become DoFollow. There is no a DoFollow tag. You need to use a DoFolow plugin to make the links DoFollow.

    Thanks for that info thats great maybe im being a bit thick now but where can i get a dofollow plug from any good suggestions guys?

  • May 8, 2008 at 6:51 am |

    i have recently downloaded the blog finder (i got a free trial version think have to upgrade pretty soon).
    it’s a great little tool for finding relevant blogs, but now after reading the comment luv i have started to focus all my attention to that.
    I get quality backlinks from informative blogs and mostly positive comments from like minded people who actually have something interesting to say.

    PS are there any other free tools that are available?

  • DoFollow Diver - DoFollow Blog Search Engine
    May 8, 2008 at 4:32 pm |

    Yes, findingblogs with commentluv is a great idea!

    Another great idea is to find blogs with the top commenters… so that you can get free sitewide links.

  • May 11, 2008 at 4:19 pm |

    I never thought about getting two links back when you comment on a blog with CommentLuv. Now there is more reason to comment than ever before!

  • jcnbinns from landscape photography
    May 14, 2008 at 4:28 am |

    Thank you for this post – the tip you gave for finding blogs that use CommentLuv will be very useful indeed – I am relatively new to blogging, though I have had a website for a while now, so please excuse my ignorance. How do you tell if your bog is a WordPress blog?

  • evon from LGarage Doors
    June 3, 2008 at 5:13 am |

    Your tip to find targeted dofollow blogs worked a treat. I also like your Keywordluv pluggin. Not seen that one before.

  • June 8, 2008 at 2:48 am |

    This is a great plugin for adding even more value and enticing people to comment. Most of us don’t have a great deal of time to spare, so putting that time to the best use possible only makes sense. I know I’ll be restricting my commenting to the sites that provide me the most incentive. You simply have to get the most bang for your buck if you want to get anywhere.

  • Best Internet Dating Online
    June 10, 2008 at 8:11 pm |

    All I can say is Wow! Where has this tool been hiding? What a life-saver. I will follow your instructions in your article Julia. Thanks a million. I got work to do. This is awesome.

  • ike from MJoomla Views
    June 11, 2008 at 7:46 am |

    We have added commentluv and keywordöuv to our entire line of info blogs to make things more commentary friendly.

    I enjoy using Fast Blog Finder and being able to find commentluv blogs for double the luv is a great ‘hack’.

  • June 21, 2008 at 4:14 pm |

    Good condensed guide to helping publishers gaining more exposure, the one thing I have noticed with adding links to blogs is that the results can be seen in a reasonably short period of time with regards to google ranking.

  • Louise from Crab Meat Recipes
    July 11, 2008 at 7:48 am |

    This was a great tip! I have been using this technique for a couple of weeks now and the links are now starting to show up in the Google Webmasters Tool. I have really enjoyed using the full version of Fast Blog Finder. Beyond finding the blogs, I like the date and notes feature so I can mark a post that I have replied to.

  • iel from KLas Vegas Windshields
    July 16, 2008 at 8:57 am |

    Thanks for the tip. I’ve been having a hard time getting my comments approved, but I think finding blogs with the commentluv option on them might make it a little easier. Oh, and thanks for making such a sweet tool!

    Kiel

  • Jeff from Heavy Equipment
    July 24, 2008 at 12:33 pm |

    Great combination of plugins…
    The commentluv plugin can also be benificial by adding some changing/keyword rich text to your comments… and google likes things that update.

  • July 24, 2008 at 5:28 pm |

    Actually, commentluv is not without disappointments, as many sites that use it still have not disabled the stupid nofollow, and thus I’ve gotten too happy too early many times, only to find out upon my right click, properties (or checking the source), that the links are no follow! This is a reality because commentluv is still useful to bloggers even when linkjuice is not passed. Some blog owners just want to pass the link of the commenting blogger to help the commenter get more traffic, but not passing link juice to them.

    Of course, you can go through the list of commentluv blogs and hope to find the half of them (or whatever the percentage) that are “dofollow”, if you set aside the time to do that.

    For me, a better indicator is to look for blogs that use the Keywordluv plugin. The purpose of this plugin is to openly reward good commenters with his own choice of anchor texts. Rather than the traditional name field being used for anchor text (and often times frowned upon if anchor text is too obvious), keywordluv blogs openly allows commentors to put in their name as “name@anchor text phrase” and the portion AFTER the @ symbol will be picked up as the linkable anchor text, fully passing link juice.

    This is the only perfect plugin for this purpose I’ve seen. I hope more and more people use this so we can make the blogsphere a much more linkjuice-friendly place! =)

  • August 4, 2008 at 2:58 am |

    Yes, CommentLuv is a good plugin, although it doesn’t always link my posts correctly when I comment. KeywordLuv is even better because we can finally get to choose our anchor text without having to worry about whether or not the blog owner might be one of those anti-marketing people who will automatically delete any comments with keywords in them even if the comment is relevant.

  • immy from TConstruction cranes
    August 8, 2008 at 1:23 am |

    Just curious. Is that how fastblogfinder execute the code behind the program ? I mean it will search for “CommentLuv” as well ? I am a little confuse now. If i can use “Enable CommentLuv” +”your keywords” to seach for dofollow blogs, then whats the difference between fastblogfinder and searching for CommentLuv by ourselves.

    Oh btw, i do own a Gold Edition and would really like to know that it can do more than just searching for “CommentLuv” blogs :)

    I luv your fastblogfinder btw ….

    • Julia
      August 8, 2008 at 2:18 am |

      @Timmy@Construction cranes

      Yes, of course, you can search yourself for blogs which use the CommentLuv plugin. But besides the blog URL Fast Blog Finder shows you the link type, Domain and Page PR, quantity of out bound links, and the date of the last post on the blog. It would take time to find all this information by yourself while Fast Blog Finder does it automatically for you.

      You can use Fast Blog Finder to search for very different types of blogs and not only for those which use the CommentLuv plugin. It depends on how you enter your search query. You can read my other posts where I describe various search queries to find blogs.

  • immy from TConstruction Cranes
    August 8, 2008 at 9:38 am |

    Hi Julia,
    Thanks for the tip. Am really glad that i can use this on the fastblogfinder tool itself instead of using google :)

  • om from TThe Home Business Archive
    August 9, 2008 at 12:14 pm |

    I have also installed commentluv on my blog.If a person takes the effort to write a useful comment on a blog post, it is only fair to give a link back.Everyone needs more relevant comments on their blogs, and this is a good way to get them.

  • S from JBusbySeoChallenge
    August 17, 2008 at 7:02 pm |

    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.

  • CyborgAC from Automatic Backlinks
    August 18, 2008 at 2:30 am |

    Good post on commentluv. Although my personal experience is that at least half of the commentluv blogs still haven’t removed nofollow! Now this is either by their ignorance or they are trying to have their cake (get the traffic and comments) and eat it too (not passing link juice). So, my advise is this…don’t trust just any so called commentluv sites. Be sure to check the existing posts for “nofollow” by right clicking any one of the existing comments’ commentluv-generated link.

    On a brighter note, although not as popular as commentluv, keywordluv sites so far has been all “do follow” and I’m in the process of looking for the best way to locate as many of these sites as possible! =)

  • August 24, 2008 at 2:43 pm |

    Thats really nice tip, and its just co-incidence that my last blog entry contains a desired key. thats really helpful for the coming postings. Thanks :)

    latifs last blog post.. Making Money Online with Free Games and videos Downloads

  • arret from JLose Weight Pills
    August 31, 2008 at 8:58 am |

    Nice tip Julia! I actually read about this about a week ago and didn’t even realize that FeedBurner has the redirect. I hadn’t done anything when I first found it but now that I came across your post, I just fixed it.

    Another reason why it is so important to spend time on writing your post titles. When you comment on blogs with CommentLuv it uses the title of the post and depending upon your title, it could mean the difference between a visitor or nobody.

    I was reading through some of the comments, a lot of them are very good. The whole deal with commenting on irrelevant blogs I think is a misunderstood issue. Yeah, Google probably discredits the link or if they do it is very little, but it still gives you a chance to gain a reader with your title. Either the blog author or others reading the comments might come across your comment, see your latest blog post with a great title and they could click through to read more.

    I think people worry too much about it giving them a backlink and instead don’t see it as a potential way to gain a new reader.

  • azar from iva
    September 22, 2008 at 2:59 am |

    This is a very useful & smart piece of info. What do you think if we enable “showlinkbacks” and it will show up with the blog entry (if you are using blogger). Doesn’t it look awkward when it show up YourName@YourKeywords on linkbacks?

  • September 25, 2008 at 8:16 am |

    Julia, I find that this is very interesting…will comment luv work with the latest WordPress plugin? I am using semilogic pro with WordPress and I love the rich set of plugin features but WP theme is the latest version of wordpress. I can see how KeywordLuv can be a great SEO benefit because it encourages readers to post and thereby create additional content on my blogs.

    I would also like to know what other tools do you recommend for gaining good backlinks? I am very glad I found your site. You seems to be very experienced in the game of SEO. I have a site that I am working on that I’d love to get to the top of Google. Can you email me or provide some additional insight?

    So far I’ve hand submitted a dozen or so articles to the top 10 databases and that gave me a huge boost but you know how tedious that can be. I am looking to reduce the amount of time it takes to get quality backlinks while gaining more of the same.

    THX

    • Julia
      September 26, 2008 at 4:12 am |

      @Darrell,

      >Julia, I find that this is very interesting…will comment luv work with the latest WordPress plugin? I am using semilogic pro with WordPress and I love the rich set of plugin features but WP theme is the latest version of wordpress. I can see how KeywordLuv can be a great SEO benefit because it encourages readers to post and thereby create additional content on my blogs.

      Please, specify what latest WordPress plugin you mean. If you mean our Double Opt-In plugin, yes, it will work with CommentLuv. In fact, those two plugins work independently from each other.

      >I would also like to know what other tools do you recommend for gaining good backlinks? I am very glad I found your site. You seems to be very experienced in the game of SEO. I have a site that I am working on that I’d love to get to the top of Google. Can you email me or provide some additional insight?

      We also have a directory submitter tool – Fast Directory Submitter. Using Fast Directory Submitter you can submit your website to thousands of directories. This is a semi-automated tool. You fill in the website profile form only once. The program will auto-fill the submission for in every directoty for you. You will just need to select the proper category, type a captcha code if necessary and click Submit to go to the next directory. The submission is fast and easy. A nice feature in Fast Directory Submitter is that you can enter (and you should do this) many website titles (anchor text for your link) and descriptions. the titles/descriptions will be rotated from directory to directory. Thus, your links will look more natural. You can read more about Fast Directory Submitter and download it from this page: http://www.fastdirectorysubmitter.com

  • alter from WBest Debt Consolidation
    October 1, 2008 at 12:13 am |

    Hi Julia,

    I have your software and have to say it makes my life a lot easier. I bought it to help out a customer of mine and it has proved valuable indeed. I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you. One bonus opoint though would be if we could search for specific PR dofollows with the software.

  • November 13, 2008 at 12:35 am |

    Hi ,

    fastblogfinder and keywordluv is a great combination and makes it much more easier to build backlinks with anchor text, thanks for this. I also like the feature to search by language as i need german blogs. With fastblogfinder its very easy.

  • BlackBerry Storm
    December 17, 2008 at 1:47 am |

    I’m concerned about the negative effect on SERPS of allowing comment links to be followed. Isn’t this likely to result in a drop in SERPS. Anybody have any experience with this, i.e. has installation of KeywordLuv had a negeative effect on a blog?

  • January 14, 2009 at 3:53 am |

    When people usually look through the comments, they can easily see the titles of other commentators or other posts. If titles are interesting than it can increase the chance of your visitors to come on your website in order to read other’s blogs or post their blogs. Some of these readers can also become your subscriber and buyer as well.

  • January 30, 2009 at 5:12 am |

    Hi Julia

    Blog commenting is wonderful thing especially when you find jewels that use the keywordLuv Plugin.
    Your program really help – especially in low competition niches this works wonders…

    Michael

  • February 10, 2009 at 8:17 am |

    Thanks for all of the informative articles. They are both useful and concise, giving both instructions on what to do and WHY to do it. Your tool also looks like a great time-saver to find blogs in our industry and gain exposure for our site. Keep up the good work, and if you come up with more tools, be sure to let us know!

  • Ways For Teens To Make Money
    March 25, 2009 at 9:47 am |

    This is a good post on the benefit of Comment Luv which provided by a famous word press plugin. I must confess that whenever I write comment on blog I normally do not use the name of my blog in the field of Name because it does not give a professional look to my comment as well as to my business. But as you have speciall mentioned here to use blog address name in the name field so I have used my blog name in the name field of this comment form. By the way…

    At the last I must appreciate that your post is unique and I find it very useful for the people who like to take it that way. Congratulation on your success and hard work.
    With Blessing,
    Money Maker.

  • radyoarabesk
    May 5, 2009 at 2:39 pm |

    thanks at all friends. At the last I must appreciate that your post is unique and I find it very useful for the people who like to take it that way. Congratulation on your success and hard work.

  • ajiv from rSeo Manchester
    June 25, 2009 at 12:13 am |

    Hi,
    Great combination of plugins.
    The commentluv plugin can also be beneficial by adding some changing/keyword rich text to your comments and Google like these kind of updates.
    Thanks.

  • vijendra from Top 10 games
    June 26, 2009 at 8:45 pm |

    Hi,
    When people usually look through the comments, they can easily see the titles of other commentators or other posts. If titles are interesting than it can increase the chance of your visitors to come on your website in order to read other’s blogs or post their blogs.
    I was reading through some of the comments, a lot of them are very good. The whole deal with commenting on irrelevant blogs I think is a misunderstood issue.
    thanks.

  • June 30, 2009 at 1:30 am |

    I think keyword luv is a great incentive for people to comment. Unfortunatly it sometimes gets ruined by people leaving comments that really don’t say anything just to get a link. If everyone played by the rules and said something useful, interesting or funny then that would be great, and everyone would be a winner. I often get people commenting on my blog who have clearly not read a single word of the article. These sorts of commentors are the reasons no follow was invented in the first place.

  • July 1, 2009 at 3:28 am |

    Hi,
    Very nice post.I really enjoy the post.If you want to double your link comment on the comment luv blog.Comment luv gives an extra link to commentator as reward for the quality comment.You should comment relevant to blog.
    Thanks for the sharing.

  • July 5, 2009 at 5:37 am |

    I have a great idea of using KeywordLuv with the purpose of social surveys and promote my products in the proper way. That is really a great plugin to carry out any social researches.

  • rian from Bmarine paneling
    July 7, 2009 at 3:14 pm |

    When I search on “Enable CommentLuv” in Google I get 62,700 choices. This can keep someone going for some time. If you need to move a different post to the top, there is a WP-Sticky plug-in that can help. Just look under WP plug-ins. I also have found the SEO for Firfox add-on does color code NoFollow links so one can easily spy which blogs allow for link juice.

  • hoebe from PFapturbo Evolution
    July 12, 2009 at 8:55 pm |

    Thanks for the tips…

    I believe a mixture of NoFollow and Follow links have helped my rankings..

    Oh btw…you can also type keyword “Enter YourName@YourKeywords in the Name field to take advantage.” into your FastBlogFinder…..This would help you find a list of DOFOLLOW blogs..

    But again…do have a mixture of NoFollow and DoFollow…I swear that they have helped in my ranking…

    And regarding the latest news on Google cancelling the NoFollow rules , it might be time for us to look out for LESS OUTBOUND LINKS + RELEVANCE BlOG to comment…regardless of nofollow or dofollow… :)

  • ichiel Van Kets from Mblog commenting service
    December 2, 2009 at 7:52 am |

    that’s interesting, I didn’t know that CommentLuv also links to the latest posts of commenters with a blog … and what’s that’s very interesting is that is doesn’t seem to put nofollow’s on the post, only on the comment of those that didn’t comment enough … although that might put some people of of course, as it opens the doors again for drive-by spammers (= the homeless of the internet ;-) )

  • Andrew from Summer Camps
    February 3, 2010 at 1:20 pm |

    I have used the Fast Blog Finder for about the last 2 years. i started with the free version and then upgraded.

    My efforts started paying off when i started mixing the dofollows and nofollows, and not just concentrating on dofollow links only.

    Don’t you think that looks a little unnatural? so the reason I like the Fast Blog Finder is that is gives you both, and allows you to make the decision yourself.

  • February 5, 2010 at 9:46 am |

    Is it true that Google has stopped counting links in comments?

    -Adam

  • Anders from SEO London
    February 17, 2010 at 3:47 am |

    The Do Follow – No Follow debate is an interesting one. If Google is attempting to discover which sites are better based on links, then it shouldn’t be based on whether or not it is no follow. A no follow link can be from a relevant and authority site so surely this should pass some authority to the site it is linking to.

    I try to aquire do follow links wherever possible, but if I can get what I consider a good no follow link I will do.

  • February 20, 2010 at 10:16 am |

    This is a great tip for finding Do Follow blogs. Like others have mentioned I believe that a person should also try to get a few no follow backlinks on high ranking sites as well just because it does look a little funny to Google if a website has all do follow backlinks and not one that is a no follow. It may actually penalize the site. Plus some no follow backlinks can actually drive more traffic to a site than do follow so that is another plus of changing it up.

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