What is CommentLuv

Are you looking to get more traffic to your site, get more readers to comment on your site, and looking for more ways to get backlinks back to your site? Today I want to talk about website owner’s dream tool that can do all of the above and works with both Blogger and WordPress! What is you ask? It’s called CommentLuv.

CommentLuv was designed as way to reward website visitors who comment on comment enabled blogs and websites. CommentLuv works by adding a direct link to a visitor’s comment. So when a visitor comments, he or she can leave a link back to their site. But with CommentLuv the additional link will a direct link back to your site that points to your newest post.

Why is this important?

When a visitor uses CommentLuv they are giving their brand and site more visibility. To a marketer this is an easy way to market their blog / site better and its free. All they have to do is add good comments to the site with ComLuv enabled and with time, they will have readers clicking on their links back to their site.

Important reasons for the commenters;

Additional backlinks back to their – good for link building campaigns
Site / Brand visibility
Networking
Gives a preview of what kind of articles and subjects you write about
The more you comment on ComLuv enabled sites you could get a chance to get a linkback to your site through Comluv Home Page for a day

Important reasons for Web Site Owners;

Gives a reason for visitors to comment on your site
More links to other sites in your niche. If the link out is related to your niche, then Search Engines like this
Giving back to the blogging community
Networking
Easy to install

How to Use CommentLuv When Commenting

In order to take advantage of the CommentLuv network, you need to register your RSS fed URL with comment at CommentLuv. First, you will need will need to register for an account. Next you will then need to fill out your profile and add your feed URL.

NOTE: If you change your feed URL for any reason, you will need to go back to your ComLuv account and change the URL their as well or the ComLuv Plugin will not be able to pull your latest entries.

Once you get your ComLuv account setup, you can start using the ComLuv tool. To find ComLuv enabled sites, do a Google search with your keywords and then type in “CommentLuv Enabled” with it and you will have a better chance to find ComLuv sites. Or you can do a search for CommentLuv Directories. There are a few sites out there that have large lists of sites with the plugin and DoFollow Site.

Once you find a site to comment on, you will need to locate where the CommentLuv option is and activate it. In most cases the plugin will be unchecked and the reader will need to activate it to use it. You can find the CommLuv checkboxes are at the bottom of the comment form. The ComLuv plugin offers several design options so the styling may look different. Below is screenshot of the Comment Field from Famous Bloggers. CommentLuv

After locating the ComLuv check box, fill out the Name, email, and website field. If you do not fill this out correctly and should be the same one you registered with ComLuv. If not, you will not be able to add another link to the comment field. Once your domain is entered into the correct field, then click on the body part of the comment and enter your comment. When complete go down to the Commentluv box and look and see if your latest blog post is there.

NOTE: Once you click in the comment body field, CommentLuv activates and starts searching for your latest posts. It will tell you if ComLuv can not find your website.

TIP: You can choose from the newest ten posts by clicking on the down arrow. This will activate the drop down menu and you can now choose another post. If you purchase more credits, you can more URLs to this lists.

How to Install CommentLuv on WordPress

Installing CommentLuv can be easy to install and configure. If your site is a self hosted WordPress blog, then you are in luck. To install the plugin, go to your Admin Dashboard >> Add New Plugins >> Search for CommentLuv>> Install. Or you can go to CommentLuv and download the plugin and upload it to your site and install it. Either way it’s easy to get itnstalled on WordPress.

Once installed, go into the plugin settings, and configure the design. You run into any issues, open a support ticket with CommentLuv, Andy, the creature of the plugin, will do his best to help you sort things out.

How has CommentLuv Helped Me?

To me, Commentluv is an important tool a website owner can have. CommentLuv has introduced me to knew bloggers and new sites that I find myself returning to daily. CommentLuv not only helps me find new sites, but helps bring in more traffic.

If you follow a good comment strategy and stick to it, you can easily drive traffic to your site. The one thing to remember is, when commenting, it is hard work, takes time, and you have to have patience. Do not think that once you start using the plugin on your site or commenting on sites with CommentLuv will cause a noticeable difference in traffic and comments. It takes time. You have to build a name for yourself/brand. You will need create comments that are help and will build your influence. Once you establish trust in the blogging world the traffic will flow…

Additional Resources

Looking for comment strategies check out Famous Blogger’s comment folder. There are bunch of recent articles about commenting and how to use CommentLuv effectively.

I also wrote two guest articles about comment strategies and how use CommentLuv to build traffic. These may help get some ideas on how to use CommentLuv to help drive traffic to your site..