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March 29, 2012 By 34 Comments
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I noticed that last week the free version of CommentLuv tipped over half a million downloads! wow.

Who’da thought that the tiny little script I wrote as a way to reward my favorite readers with a link back their site would grow so big, so quick?

Celebrations?

I’ve been thinking what I can do to celebrate but I couldn’t come up with anything in the short time between noticing and this post so I will have to come up with something special to mark this milestone.

I did spend the day coding a little fix that I’ll include in the next update to both CommentLuv Premium and the free version which adds a bit of redundancy to the feed fetching routine so if it can’t find a feed on the first go, it’ll try again in the most used feed location.

It worked on the few test url’s that I know resulted in a ‘a feed cannot be found’ message before so that might help all those that have static homepages and couldn’t get a returned list of posts when they used their homepage url on commentluv sites.

Kicked Murphys ass!

I managed to finally fix the issue I was having with mine and Heshams joint venture plugin. Oh phew! that problem nearly broke my coding back! I was starting to get a phobia for coding.

Luckily, I know how my brain works and knew that all I needed was to concentrate on something else for a while so I did another online course. By the time I was finished, I was still struggling to fix the problem so I started another course and half way through it, I got hit by the inspiration genie and TA-DA! solved it.

Oh yes, things are getting back on track and I’ve got (another) little course that I’ve just finished and I’m currently actioning that to see what it says is true. That looks pretty nice! I’ll let you know all the juicy details next week.. suffice to say, it’s a way to make money and build a list using gorgeous looking reports that can be created with copy and paste easiness .. yum

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  1. Andreas says:
    March 29, 2012 at 7:49 pm

    Wow, 500.000 that’s really impressive. Now, if you could provide me with a full list of all the sites that installed it, I could hire a 100 freelancers and I’d never had to search for backlinks again :D

    Anyways: Thanks mate!
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  2. Jo Harrison
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    March 29, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    Well done Andy, that’s a lot of downloads!!! I still only tend to comment on CommentLuv blogs, so much better when you know you’re getting something back… :)
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  3. Fabrizio
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    March 29, 2012 at 11:42 pm

    That’s a lot of downloads and well deserved, it’s an awesome plugin, well done.
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  4. Erwin Raaphorst
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    March 30, 2012 at 1:52 am

    Congrats well deserved! Make sure you’ll let us know what you came up with to celebrate it ;-)
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  5. Ahmad says:
    March 30, 2012 at 7:19 am

    Congrats on hitting 500k! Quite the achievement! And its no surprise since it’s a great plugin, used be me on all my blogs and I know a lot of other people using it, who are very happy with it as well. But keep those updates comin’!
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  6. Barbu Catalin says:
    March 30, 2012 at 3:13 pm

    Wow !!! 500.000 that’s really impressive !!!

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  7. mattkerr
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    March 30, 2012 at 4:02 pm

    It’s not surprising you hit the fantastic 500k mark Andy. It’s free and very very good. Thanks for creating it and i hope you hit the 1mil mark soon.

    When do you think you will hit 1m? What is your guesstimate you must have been thinking about it already? :)
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  8. Austin
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    March 30, 2012 at 7:02 pm

    Proud to say I am one of those 1,000,000.

    Although, I’m seriously thinking about making the upgrade! Great job guys!
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  9. Blog Lady
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    March 31, 2012 at 2:31 am

    CommentLuv is one of the smartest plugins ever. The concept is ingenious. If there’s a better way to encourage quality commenting in blogs, I haven’t found it yet. It’s a breeze to use too. My only wish for this plugin is that you’d let users promote older articles as well. There are many older posts that deserve comments and attention too.
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    • Andy Bailey
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      April 3, 2012 at 8:24 am

      promoting other articles would be nice but it would taken advantage of. although, the premium version has an option to allow you to choose up to 5 of your favorite posts/pages that are always available in the drop down list when you comment
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  10. Stefanus
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    March 31, 2012 at 6:50 am

    Congratulation Andy! That’s an impressive achievement. I love this plugin :)
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  11. Sara says:
    March 31, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    Congratulations Andy!That’s a really big achievement knowing that is also something pioneering!We’ll be waiting for the juicy details ;-)
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  12. Jason
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    March 31, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    Thats awesome it really is, I think Comment luv is a fantastic plugin and Im really glad its being downloaded so much, I’m looking forwards to when I come to the commentluv ‘comluv’ website and there is a post saying there is over 1million downloads :)

    Thanks so much for everything comluv and keep up the great work!
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  13. Karen
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    April 1, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    Wow Andy that’s awesome, it just goes to show that CommentLuv is an amazing plugin ;)
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  14. Geoff Clarke says:
    April 1, 2012 at 5:48 pm

    Congratulations, Andy, that’s incredible news – you’re a genius! Thanks so much for helping me and other new bloggers to build backlinks and reach our target audience.
    Keep it up! Geoff
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  15. Henry Sim
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    April 2, 2012 at 4:32 pm

    Fantastic, I am getting ready to install commentluv on my blogs as well and the stats does provide the motivation to do so. Love the community, and the real comments :)
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  16. Christine Rage
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    April 2, 2012 at 11:20 pm

    That’s really cool to know so many people are using it! I today finally installed it on 2 of my blogs and I’m looking forward using it! This is such a smart way to benefit the entire community while preventing spammers and abuse.

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  17. Avril says:
    April 3, 2012 at 9:26 am

    Hi Andy. thanks for making the CommentLuv. Very helpful.

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  18. Jack Sternfeld
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    April 4, 2012 at 8:25 am

    Congratulations Andy. 500K is pretty impressive. You should celebrate by giving away free copies of the CommentLuv Plugin. Just a thought. :)

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  19. Andrew says:
    April 4, 2012 at 9:20 pm

    That’s an amazing milestone. You’ve got to feel good about how far this endeavor has spread. Hopefully you hit a full million by this time next year.

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  20. Raaj Trambadia
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    April 21, 2012 at 12:38 am

    That’s what Success is all about Andy! Cheers and congrats for this :D

    My suggestion (a serious one :P ) – Share a few free premium version downloads of course, with some conditions. Look forward to that. Adios :)
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