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You can get your own content published on this site as long as you have CommentLuv installed on your site.

Doing so means you get exposure to thousands and thousands of other CommentLuv users and your posts get sent out to the massive subscriber list.

Google loves this site and indexes it multiple times per day and posts always get lots of comments so you can be sure of some excellent exposure.

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You probably already know that to get the most out of CommentLuv you need to register your site. In my previous post about How CommentLuv Works I covered many of the benefits of registering and how to get your last ten posts and default links to show up so you can choose one.

Today there is something very basic about the Internet that I want to share with you because even though it IS basic few who are not technical experts understand its importance. This one bit of information will come in very handy for you in many ways because of all the issues not knowing this causes:

www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com are considered TWO DIFFERENT SITES

Both of those domain names are also referred to as URLs. URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. Every site owner should make sure their site can be found either way. If yours doesn’t contact your hosting company and make sure that one version is being permanently redirected to the other.

This subject gets more complicated than we need to go into for the purposes of this post but I encourage every serious blogger and site owner to read Blogussion‘s post on how SEO canonization issues affect your search engine positions.

Understanding how the Internet sees different site URLs is important to getting the most from using CommentLuv because it affects all of these:

Typing in a different URL when commenting than you registered at CommentLuv will prevent the ComLuv system from locating your last ten posts and default posts.
Entering a URL different than what your feed uses will prevent your site from showing up as a Top 5 Featured Site at the bottom of the ComLuv site.
CommentLuv statistics rely on having the correct URL and that will be important when participating in CommentLuv Contests offering cash prizes.

When you register your site with CommentLuv you should use the same URL you used when you created your feed at FeedBurner or FeedBlitz. See the screen captures below for where to find that information.

I know filling out profiles is not the most fun you ever had but it IS important.

The more complete your CommentLuv profile is the more likely other CommentLuv members will take an interest in you and visit your blog.

It doesn’t take long and it IS worth it. Here are the step-by-step directions to make it even easier:

Click on Register / Edit Your Blog URL at the top of the page to go to the CommentLuv Member Page
Click edit profile in the upper section
Type in your Twitter ID (no @ or http://Twitter.com – just the Username. In the example shown mine is GrowMap)
Type in the username you wish to use for CommentLuv (usually you will want that to be the same as your Twitter Username and ideally you will use the same user id on every site)
Type in a short bio that describes what other you would like CommentLuv members to know ABOUT YOU (not your blog or site – that goes in the next section). Since the window is very small you may want to write the bio in a notepad program and paste it into the window.
Click SAVE CHANGES

The screen capture below shows the top section of a CommentLuv profile. Click EDIT PROFILE in this section to make changes in the Your Profile section only.

When you click Edit Profile you will see a screen similar to the one below:

After you edit your profile you need to make sure you edit the information for Your Main URL in the lower section. Click on Edit Site to make changes in that section.

I have attached screen captures below from each of those services and instructions on where to find the URL you used.

If you use Feedburner, go to FeedBurner.com and log in. Look at the field named Original Feed to find out if you used www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com to decide whether to put www in front when you register your URL at CommentLuv.

I realized that I registered GrowMap.com at CommentLuv but my FeedBurner RSS uses www.GrowMap.com. Notice that the screen capture below contains this warning from FeedBurner regarding changing your URL:

Since I couldn’t edit that field at CommentLuv and I want to switch to FeedBurner anyway, I went ahead and created a feed for my blog at FeedBurner and edited the Feed URL CommentLuv uses.

Notice that FeedBlitz defaults to the non-www version of my domain name as shown in the Your Feed’s Name field in the screen capture below.

If you need to edit your URL (to add or remove the www to match what your actual feed has) you will have to click Delete Site in the Your Main URL section and re-enter the information. I would copy and save the information I had in the other fields so that I could paste it back in.

The site category has an arrow that shows more categories. It is a very good idea to choose the category closest to what your site is about. That field defaults back to blogs so any time you edit that section you have to set that again.

Be sure to enter keywords. These are simply the words someone would search on to find a site like yours. If you don’t have keywords they won’t find you and you’ll miss out on those visitors, growing your blog, and that will reduce your income if you sell advertising or decide to monetize.

I explained how to decide what keywords you should use in my post about Building Traffic.

When your feed URL is saved by the CommentLuv system it removes the http:// in front of it. Whenever you edit that section you will have to manually add that to the front of the field or you will see the error shown in red in this screen capture: Please enter a valid URL:

To fix that simply put the http:// back in front of feeds.whatever and click submit.

You may have noticed there is a field for Number of posts to return. That defaults to 10 and that is the recommended setting, but you can change it to display fewer posts but not more than 10.