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micfo Hosting Company – new featured site.

Andy Bailey — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:45:29 +0000

New featured site

I am proud to present the new sponsor who will be occupying the featured site spot on the home page. They are micfo hosting and they provide high quality, reliable and safe hosting for your company or personal website.

Fast and friendly

One of the first things you should do when investigating a new hosting company to handle your website is to see how fast their own website loads and one thing is for sure, you don’t have to wait when you browse the micfo website!

As well as a speedy hosting environment, you get excellent customer service and technical support. In fact, they promise to respond to your initial inquiries submitted to technical support within 25 minutes! trust me, you wont find that with many hosting companies!

Good range of services and products

As with any host, they provide the usual services like web hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated servers and you can even get a reseller hosting account for as little as $20 per month!

You have an entire range of helpful videos to show you exactly how to do everything you will need when you get your desired package and if you need to ask them anything, they are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via email, live chat and real live phone support.

Welcome micfo!

If you need hosting and want it from a quality supplier, you can’t go wrong with micfo Hosting. Give them a try with your next website and tell them Andy from ComLuv sent you and they’ll be sure to give you an extra coating of niceness with their smiles

Guest bloggers get more with Google +

Andy Bailey — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:08:03 +0000

I’ve been doing some jiggery pokery to the functions file for the theme used here and have successfully added a google profile link to the author archive page so any article indexed by Google gets associated with that authors google plus profile. Sweet! Guest bloggers, update your profile! If you’re a guest blogger, have a [...]

New Commentluv.com site

Andy Bailey — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:00:40 +0000

Out with the old…

I’ve finally gotten around to clearing the old commentluv.com domain out and rehousing it on a new server in readiness for when the new plugin is ready for the world.

As you can see, I haven’t put anything up other than a landing page and an opt-in form for now because, well, the new plugin isn’t ready yet! You can click the image above to head on over there and enter your details to be notified of updates to the plugin and be one of the first people on the planet to try it when it’s ready.

Don’t send them away!

Once the last version of the original CommentLuv has been updated to v2.818, I will start building the next version (free 2.9) which removes the need for your users to register at comluv.com

Instead of sending your readers away to another site, you can keep them on yours and encourage them to register on your blog if they want to unlock the 10 last posts.

Of course, you don’t have to require them to register, you could just give everyone 10 posts to choose from when they comment but, if there’s one thing I’ve learned after 2+ years of running this site it’s that people want 10 posts to choose from when they comment! 40,000 of them registered here to get it so there’s a good chance that they would do it at your site too.

Stay tuned!

It’s going to be a lot of work for the new version of CommentLuv because I will be recoding it from scratch to take advantage of all the things that I’ve learned about the inner workings of WordPress since I made it and some other fancy pants things that I have been wanting to add for some time.

Sign up to the newsletter to keep up to date with the progress of this new version and you’ll be among the first people on the planet to have it on your site!

Enter your details below to join the list of early birds!

CommentLuv Plugin Hits The Quarter Million Downloads Milestone

Andy Bailey — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:30:57 +0000

CommentLuv has now been downloaded from the official WordPress plugin repository over a quarter of a million times! OMG, can you believe it’s been that many? I can’t and I’m the one who made it! haha Who’s downloading it and why? There seems to be a constant steady stream of daily downloads happening from lots [...]

Adding twitterlink field to a Studiopress theme

Andy Bailey — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:30:19 +0000

I’ve added the field to this Studiopress theme for your twitter username to the actual comment form now so it should be a smoother entry for those who haven’t added their twitter username to a comment here. Luv StudioPress! You just gotta luv the flexibility of the Genesis Framework by StudioPress. It just takes a [...]

Not bad ads

Andy Bailey — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:30:34 +0000

I’ve been making some changes around the site with regards to the ads that get displayed in the hope of increasing the amount of revenue that ComLuv can generate. Maybe one day it’ll make enough money to justify all the time I put into it but, that’s never really been the driving force behind the site or plugin.

Google ads and Banners

Google sent me an email explaining that I could make more revenue if I followed their heatmap of the best places to put ads so I followed their advice and put some adsense above the post along with the 125×125 banners.

There’s still one 125×125 banner available as a dofollow banner. It’s visible throughout the whole site over pages from PR1 to PR6 and tend to get a decent click through rate. They’re available for a discount if bought for 90 days on the 125×125 purchase page

Go Studiopress!

Rather than pennies per day (if I’m lucky), I am going to try some affiliate ads for Studiopress. In particular, the Genesis framework which is what the site is running on using the Delicious child theme. I’ve already earned a bit of commission from clicks that turned into sales so I’m going to see if I can push that a bit more this month and see if it converts.

[edit] wooh, that little bit of commission turned into 167$ the past few days!! I’m glad they’ve moved to Shareasale!

Shareasale

The Shareasale site seems to have a lot of companies that have things to sell and are willing to give a percentage of the sale away to the people that promote them so I’ll be giving that a deeper look over the coming months. I promise I will try to keep things tasteful!

You might want to give them a look yourself. It’s only fair to disclose that if you join using the following link, get accepted, start promoting and generate a click then they will give me 1 dollar!

API update to ComLuv info panel display

Andy Bailey — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:30:30 +0000

I made a small update to the ComLuv API so it will show the info panel properly when a user has special characters like © in their bio description or post titles. Replace it with nothing! I did have some rather complex search and replace code in the api to try and prevent special characters [...]

Update to guest author box for better SEO

Andy Bailey — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:30:00 +0000

I’ve updated the code that displays the author box at the top of guest author posts so it now has a dofollow keyphrase link that opens in a new window to the guest authors site.

Get noticed for your keyphrase

The anchor text and site address is taken from your main URL details on the member page (http://comluv.com/member/) so if you’re a guest blogger be sure to visit the page and make sure that you have your desired keyphrase as your site name.

More to come

As many of you know, I am super busy with other projects and my Chinese takeaway shop in Lancaster but I have many ideas of things to bring to ComLuv and just about all of them involve sharing the traffic and success of the site with the users of the plugin and now, with the contributors too.

I hope you can continue to using the CommentLuv plugin and visit the ComLuv site to read the outstanding guest blogger contributions.

Contributors – feedback please!

If you’ve already had a guest post published and received the email saying you got 5 comluv credits, can you check your account to see if they were credited to you or not? Please let me know by replying to the email you got sent or sending a new one to admin (at) comluv.com

Read Reviews

Fantastic start to ComLuv guest posting

Andy Bailey — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:28:49 +0000

What a great week we’ve had since opening up the site to guest posters! There have been some excellent submissions and I’m happy to report that they will all be included in the newsletter along with the regular posts I make about the site.

Everything from blog wealth to back health

Unlike many websites that have guest posting, on ComLuv.com you can write about what you normally write about and use the opportunity to attract new readers to your own site and for all the right reasons – they like what you write about.

Get more than traffic

Not only will you get the inevitable traffic that clicks through to your site, you will get some google juice because your author box has dofollow prominent links. You will get rewarded with 5 comluv credits to use on things like featured site spots, you also get your post sent out with the regular newsletter AND you get your post tweeted to the every growing following of @commentluv !

Welcome all!

Get yourself a contributor account today and start reaping the rewards of publishing on a high traffic / high PR site like this one.

Visit the support tickets area to submit your request.

Get PR4 – PR6 Links from as little as 1$ per day

Andy Bailey — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:33:27 +0000

Introducing a new feature at ComLuv.com Here’s a tasty little treat for you! it’s called Featured Sites and it’s a wonderful way to spend your ComLuv credits on something that has proven to be a fantastic way to get your site noticed by the search engines – getting your links on a high PR page [...]