Info panel not showing your information
If you see the above picture on your heart info link then it will be because you are using Feedburner to display your feed and you have item click tracking enabled. What this does is replace the links that point to your posts within your feed and instead, point them to Feedburners own site so they can track how many clicks you get on your feeds post titles.
The problem with this is, even though they say it doesn’t affect your Google juice, it will not associate your title keywords with the URL that the link forwards to unless the link is followed. It also has the disadvantage of making your luvlinks look just like most other feedburner links. If the ComLuv API can’t recognize your link then it can’t send back all the lovely info you typed into your profile.
Solution
Switch off item click tracking…
1. Visit Feedburner.com and login to your account.
2. Choose the feed you want to change the settings on.
3. Click “configure stats”
4. Deselect the checkbox marked “Item link clicks”
5. Click “Save”
That’s it, you’ve configured your Feedburner feed to not forward your feed links and instead, point them direct to your site so you can have an awesome info panel like this one.
Not only that – Feedburner also steals away link love too. I wrote about that at Danger Will Robinson! ttp://tinyurl.com/5e3blq
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Twitter: commentluv
23. Jul, 2009 at 10:05 pm #
I think the only reason many people use feedburner is so they can see how many readers they have! I find the wordpress built in feeds so much more powerful. Guess I’ll have to find a way to add stats to the feeds so people can get a good idea of how they’re being served.. one more for the todoodlist!
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Andy, I use Feedburner because when I first started my blog it was on Blogspot, then WordPress.com, and now it is self-hosted. I simply want an easy way for people to subscribe; I’m not too interested in SEO.
So what makes WordPress’ built-in feeds more powerful than FeedBurner’s?
(Thanks for the tutorial, btw…while I’m not *too* interested in SEO, I still want more luv coming my way than Google/Feedburner’s!)
Twitter: commentluv
26. Aug, 2009 at 10:19 am #
I prefer wordpress own feed handling because you can have separate feeds for any category so if you write about a particular niche subject on your site, you can specify a feed link that allows users to subscribe only to that subject. Feedburner will redirect any feed request just to your main feed.
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Is there a comluv member list? How can you go about finding other blogs that use comluv to better support the network?
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26. Aug, 2009 at 10:20 am #
I have been working hard behind the scenes writing the classes and functions for putting in a top list and active sites list in the near future. I should have it on the site sometime soon!
I like Feedburnder for all the info it provides, but I may have to revert back to the WordPress blog after learning about the link redirect.
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26. Aug, 2009 at 10:21 am #
you can switch the link redirects off if you want but it still leaves you having to manually burn a feed for each category if you want separate feeds for each one. WordPress does it automatically
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20. Sep, 2009 at 11:02 pm #
I’ve followed your instructions here, and turned off all feedburner plugins… but I just registered my domain with your site today. Is there a lag between registering and our links showing up correctly?
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Genius, I love feedburner and the functionality it gives me, but I love commentluv more. Thanks for the help!
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14. Oct, 2009 at 11:49 am #
You’re awesome Andy! I’ve never thought of that until I’ve read your post.
Thank you for this tip.
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Twitter: commentluv
14. Oct, 2009 at 12:12 pm #
glad to help!
Is there a way to make the heart icon and link show up retroactively? I posted a comment on a commentluv site before I knew what commentluv was all about…
Or specifically for this topic, will the links that already exist on other people’s blogs change once I follow this advice?
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Twitter: commentluv
24. Oct, 2009 at 10:46 am #
only comments made after commentluv has been installed will have the link. There’s no way to retroactively add them.
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02. Nov, 2009 at 6:58 pm #
Thanks, I think it works. I just changed it, but doesn’t work, so I let the site point to /feed/
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Twitter: commentluv
04. Nov, 2009 at 11:14 am #
looks like its working fine for you now. Sometimes all it takes is a trailing slash
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20. Nov, 2009 at 4:57 pm #
This works. Thank you. I was looking for that tip
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20. Nov, 2009 at 5:00 pm #
Wrong username. Its fixed now.
Im now a part of your community. Looking good..
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27. Nov, 2009 at 7:55 pm #
I do have my stats configured as indicated above in Feedburner but I am still getting an error message when I post on blogs (such as this one) that has CommentLuv enabled.
Any other suggestions on how to get my feed to work?
Twitter: commentluv
28. Nov, 2009 at 10:21 am #
it will show you as a member on links made after you registered and have switched off redirects. Old links will still point to feedburner.
Cool, didn’t know this.
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Great heads up Andy. Also thanks to my friend Lean Life Coach for highlighting this post!
Best,
Sam
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Twitter: commentluv
30. Dec, 2009 at 3:42 pm #
I think feedburner are able to use your own blog url in the feed items now. I will have to check, I stopped using them to do my feeds a long time ago.
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30. Dec, 2009 at 1:43 am #
very cool indeed, ive been a member of comluv for less than a few hrs and I have learnt a lot already. Thanks, hope it works, will soon see when i click on submit.
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Twitter: commentluv
30. Dec, 2009 at 3:45 pm #
yup, it worked for you fine!
Twitter: ZenMoments
07. Jan, 2010 at 4:25 am #
Ahhh, someone above has just answered my question regarding if there was a lag time between links showing after registering the URL.
I thought though that if the URL was registered, that I would get a drop-down list on a commentLuv enabled site to select from a list of articles instead of just having the latest one show. Perhaps I misunderstood something?
John
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Twitter: commentluv
07. Jan, 2010 at 2:35 pm #
once you have registered your main url at http://comluv.com/member/ then when you comment using that exact url, it will show you the 10 last posts.
Make sure you haven’t registered your site with www and are commenting without the www in your url.
Twitter: ZenMoments
07. Jan, 2010 at 6:35 pm #
Hi Andy,
In reference to my problem of not seeing the 10 posts to choose from, yes I am using the same format for the URL here and on comment forms (always with the http:// prefix and the www). I noticed just now however that when I checked my registered URL after setting it yesterday with all the details, that today the details were gone (only the address remained but without the http:// prefix as I had set it). Because the details (title, description, feed address, keywords) had disappeared though, I removed the address and began again just now so everything is there again. We’ll see if I get the 10 choices now.
Thanks for caring
John
PS: I notice I am not getting the choices here on this comment
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Twitter: commentluv
07. Jan, 2010 at 10:08 pm #
you wont be getting 10 choices because you don’t have that many posts on your site, it will only show up to 10 from whatever is on your feed.
Twitter: ZenMoments
07. Jan, 2010 at 11:48 pm #
Actually I have 40 posts on my site and they are all in the feed.
John
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Twitter: commentluv
08. Jan, 2010 at 12:04 am #
when I browse to your feed (http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Zen-moments) by clicking on the rss icon in the address bar it only shows only 5 items but when I click the link, it shows the full feed. how strange! there might be some forwarding error somewhere.
you can try it yourself. click the link and also copy the link and paste it into a new window and see if both pages look the same.
Twitter: ZenMoments
08. Jan, 2010 at 12:32 am #
I don’t know why would be. I get varying results myself. My site points to the updated feed address since Google took over FeedBurner (they added a “2″ after “feeds” in the address). Somewhere in feedburner I seem to recall a setting that sets the number of items to show in a feed, but I can’t find it anymore.
Regardless, shouldn’t commentluv recognize that I have more items to choose from, even if it can only access 5?
John
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Twitter: commentluv
08. Jan, 2010 at 12:48 am #
It can only show what it gets given. It must be seeing the one with 5 on it. have you set your feed url in the member page? try setting it to http://www.zen-moments.com/feed/ to see if the forwarding option works better than the direct access via feeds2.feedburner
Twitter: ZenMoments
08. Jan, 2010 at 2:01 am #
Thanks, but when I navigate to http://www.zen-moments.com/feed/ it redirects to the same feeds2 address and still only shows the last 5 posts. I’m surprised that I don’t get a choice in a drop box for at least those last 5 posts. I get no drop box at all with any choices.
I think I’ll let it go now. Perhaps in a week or so I’ll look at this again. It’s too much of a time sink right now. I appreciate your efforts and quick responses.
Best,
John
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thanks. great tips! just want to test here, whether it work or not ^_^
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25. Jan, 2010 at 10:26 am #
I turned off “Item link clicks” but info panel wit my profile doesn’t appear at all. :/
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25. Jan, 2010 at 5:29 pm #
once you turn that option off, it will only show you as a member on links that are added AFTER you switch it off
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01. Feb, 2010 at 7:19 pm #
Thanks for the great tips Andy. I think I have my feeds updated now so I can have more SEO juice. :::crossing fingers::::
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Twitter: commentluv
03. Feb, 2010 at 2:19 pm #
yup, your feed is working fine to show the proper links.
If you use feedblitz, their system can use the item tracking and when commentluv asks, it sends back the normal link so you get maximum SEO
OK, so I edited my Feedburner account and yet when I enter the URL in the website CommentLuv still pulls the feedburner address – is there a period of time that must pass before the the settings propagate through?
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Twitter: commentluv
05. Feb, 2010 at 12:51 am #
your posts or settings will probably be cached by feedburner or comluv for a day. If it’s still doing it after 48 hours then let me know.
Starting to feel the Luv now – didn’t even know it wasn’t configured right. As a bonus, I found out some people had subscribed to feedburner, magical!
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Twitter: commentluv
09. Feb, 2010 at 1:48 pm #
glad it helped!
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19. Feb, 2010 at 2:44 pm #
Thanks for the great tip, I just made the update.
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Twitter: commentluv
20. Feb, 2010 at 11:47 am #
and it worked!
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04. Mar, 2010 at 2:03 pm #
I just updated the settings in my FeedBurner account. Let’s see if this works!
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Twitter: commentluv
04. Mar, 2010 at 2:45 pm #
it’s still showing as using feedproxy . might be cached, give it 24 hours and try again
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06. Mar, 2010 at 5:31 pm #
Like the linkluv concept. Thanks.
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Why did my name suddenly start saying “no last blog posts to return?”
Twitter: commentluv
31. May, 2010 at 6:06 am #
please submit a support ticket.
Twitter: TechChunks
16. Jun, 2010 at 3:25 pm #
Okay, I’ve changed the FeedBurner settings. NO CHANGE!
As a test I’ve changed the CommentLuv feed URL to point at my blog’s feed URL. Still no change? Please help!
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Twitter: commentluv
16. Jun, 2010 at 7:47 pm #
please submit a support ticket with all the relevant details so I can track down the problem for you.
Twitter: TechChunks
17. Jun, 2010 at 5:51 am #
Looks like it is working, finally.
But I guess I had changed the feed URL to my blog URL. Need to change it to Feedburner URL to be sure all are really fine now. Will keep you posted. Thanks.
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Twitter: AMater
30. Jun, 2010 at 12:10 am #
Followed these steps, but the link still redirects to Feedburner, as you can see. I sent a support ticket about it, but maybe you can reply here and see if we can figure something out.
Thanks, Andy!
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Twitter: commentluv
30. Jun, 2010 at 12:16 am #
maybe it hasn’t updated your feed yet. See if there’s an option to reburn your feed.. (or use feedblitz which is 100% compatible and wont show proxy urls if it detects it’s a commentluv link)
Twitter: AMater
30. Jun, 2010 at 12:39 am #
Something interesting I noticed is that “Original Feed” is showing this: http://feedproxy.google.com/WorkFromHomeResourcesBlog. If I’m correct, shouldn’t it be my actual blog feed URL instead? Could this be causing it?
As far as updating, I can’t imagine it would have taken a whole month to update. As I mentioned in my ticket, I did this about a month ago, but I still have this problem.
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30. Jun, 2010 at 8:41 am #
make sure that the feed url you have set in feedburner is pointing to your wordpress feed and go over your settings again.
If it wont change, try feedburner support, I don’t use them and haven’t for over 2 years because of all the issues I had with them so I’m not familiar with their setup any more.
Twitter: AMater
30. Jun, 2010 at 4:53 pm #
I got it working, but something definitely got messed up with Feedburner. For some reason I have two burned feeds for my blog, and the one does point to my actual blog feed. I unticked the box for that feed also, and all is working now. Must have been when everything got transferred over to Google after they took over.
Thanks for your help, Andy!
Oh sorry lol, it’s working now. I guess it needed some time to refresh or whatever
. Thank you very much for this tip, i was afraid im stuck with feedproxy links. Tnx
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30. Aug, 2010 at 11:25 am #
I’m already adjust this setting.. now its working.. great..
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