I am always looking for more ways to build blog traffic and gain back links. When I started using CommentLuv, I found a better way to gain back links when commenting. Bloggers who enable plugins such as CommentLuv are more likely to allow DoFollow in their link comments (since they want to reward their readers), and CommentLuv adds a second backlink to your comments, giving a nice double dip effect to your comment backlinks (one link from your name, and another from your recent post)! This has improved my link building tactics when commenting on other blogs in a very promising way.
Once I saw the benefits of commenting on other CommentLuv enabled blogs, I still had to find good blogs in my niche to comment on. Only a couple of the regular blogs I comment on had commentLuv enabled, so I set out to find some new sites to read and comment on regularly. I started by writing a custom search in google to find blogs which allow comments and have commentLuv installed using the following search query:
link:comluv.com +"Powered By WordPress" +"Post Comment" + <keyword>
Let’s break this down. The first section searches for sites which link to comluv.com. This is a good indicator of blogs with the plugin installed. Secondly, I searched for the phrase “Powered by WordPress”, which limits it to wordpress blogs, and “Post Comment”, which ensures the page being found is a comment page. This won’t remove certain pages which write entire posts about CommentLuv, but will have a pretty high accuracy. Finally, I included the keyword or key words I wanted to find in my niche.
Which blogs are good to comment on?
I usually like to focus my efforts where I will get the most in return, so I installed the SEOMoz Firefox plug-in. In the settings, if you turn on SERP overlay when you search the above query in Google, the plugin will add an information bar along the bottom of each result showing how high the page rank is for each result. The Page Authority bar is a better indicator in this case than the domain authority – this gives you an idea of how much link juice will come through to your links, but domain authority is important too.
Each search result returned multiple good blogs to check out based on relevance and page rank. I filtered the list a bit more by ensuring the blogs also allowed follow in their comment section. To do this, I simply checked to see what other comments had been left. Blogs with spammy comments or rel=nofollow in the link tags were removed from my list. (I use FireBug to check if links are nofollow). If a blog was particularly good, I of course added it to my list regardless!
What Else?
How else do you use CommentLuv to improve your search engine ranking? Add more tips in the comments!
Hmmm – tried it, but a tough one to crack, I must say. The few results that came back didn’t do me a lot of good.
But: practice makes perfect!
Thanks for sharing this!
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Charlie – Commenting on blogs that have CommentLuv installed is definitely a great link building strategy. Thanks for the tip on how to search for blogs in the search engine with the commentLuv installed. I will also make use of the SEOMoz Firefox plug-in to see how high the page rank is for each result. Thanks for the helpful tips, I’m definitely going to put them to use.
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I have a commenting spree each time I write a blog post. I always have commment luv enabled and it not only gets me backlinks, it gets me traffic. I LOVE comment luv!!!! It is one of the top plugins that every blogger should have!
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Comment Luv is indeed a great source of traffic and something I’ve been using ever since I first started my blog, it’s also a great source for finding other blog articles via those that have taken the time to comment on your own blog
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I’ll have to look into this a little bit more. Does the traffic come from people looking for CommentLuv blogs or from the links in your comments?
The only thing that is stopping me from installing this is that I don’t want to attract trolls or more spam.
I agree with mitz. I like how it can promote posts via deeplinking that wouldn’t really normally get promoted. I also use it on some of my blogs that are run more like blogs rather than just niche sites.
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yea it willl works..comment love can get a qulaity and solid backlinks
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I am trying to build up traffic ! still in progress , following these tips ! hope to get more traffic soon
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This is valuable information! I have never looked for blogs with CommentLuv before, but I now can see the benefits.
Thanks
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