WordPress Plugin Review: CommentLuv
If you’ve been around my blog previously you have probably already caught on to the fact that commentluv is one of my favorite plugins for WordPress.
How essential is it? Essential enough that it makes my Top 10 WordPress Plugins List!
If you’re serious about building backlinks, building community, developing traffic, giving your readers something back for commenting, or really just having a successful blog…. you can’t afford to skip this plugin (or the required ComLuv.com account you need to make it work to its fullest).
If you’d like to read more on this plugin or check it out you can find it in the wordpress repository here under commentluv, however, for installing it its easy to just go Dashboard -> Plugins -> Add New -> Search -> Commentluv.
Now, this plugin tends to confuse people because the plugin is for your visitors but if you want it to work for you on other peoples sites, you need a comluv.com account.
Here’s a step-by-step video of how to get this plugin and account up and rockin for you!
There ya go, now you’re set up and ready to rock the house!
Now, let me give you two more tips before you head out to pound the commentluv network pavement!
Commentluv is prone to errors because feeds are prone to not responding in a timely manner. Learning to quickly troubleshoot commentluv is key, and here’s where you want to go if you get stuck:
Fixing Commentluv “No Recent Post” or “Bad Ju Ju” Headaches!
Now that you know how to avoid the headaches, let me show you how to gain some wicked traffic results from this little plugin that you probably haven’t seen before!
Why Commentluv’s Circle of Luv Is One Of My Ninja Traffic Secrets!
Now you got it! You know how to install the plugin, how to set up your account, how to keep it trouble free, and how I use it to for awesome traffic building results!
Summary
Whats not to love about this awesome little straight forward plugin that packs so much punch! Absolutely a 5 star plugin and essential from day one on any blog!
Like it? Love it? Think you know of one better? Getting a headache from trying to set it up? I’d really appreciate if you’d bookmark, share and syndicate this post and then toss your thoughts and comments in the comment box below! Lets compare notes!
Kimberly
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I love this Plugin!
I remember when commentluv came out. I tried it out with one blog, and eventually added to my other blogs. It’s a great way to recognize your visitors since they receive a linkback too. The improvements that Andy has made are great, since you can now select which post (out of 10) you’d like to link your comment too. Of course, you have to sign pp at the Comluv site to get that benefit.
After I install a WordPress Plugin I now run my url through a site validator, just to make sure everything is working fine, since bad coding can at times mess up your site, and your RSS feed too.
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Yeah I’m seeing how useful feedvalidator.org is with this plugin. There are so many things that can give our feeds a hairball!
Have you looked at the upcoming commentluv gold? Its sexy and is essentially the commentluv, keywordluv, dofollow, top commentator stack, its gonna be hot!
Kimberly
Yep, I’ve saw ComLuv Gold mentioned on the ComLuv website. I’m really looking forward to getting it for my websites. The less addons I use, the happier I am.
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Just what I had been looking for. I have this on my blog for my readers but for the life of me I can’t get it to work for me when I comment on people’s blog. I think it actually worked once. I deleted and re-entered my blog, I tried the ban url but just can’t get it to work. You have very valuable content on your blog. I did spend a considerable amount of time here today. I will check back to see if you have any suggestions for me to get com-luv working for me.
Brenda
I took a look at your credentials and I see its reporting feed errors. So I bounced to your blog, got your feed link, opened it (opens), ran it against a validator (it validates). However, I noticed when I went to add it to google reader, it passed off to an “ignition” link. http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http://www.brendaabraham.com/feed/?source=ignitionfork Are you running some other plugin or some feed redirect?
Kimberly
Thank you so much for taking the time to check. I have no idea what that means. “ignition” I have minimal plug-ins on my blog and no feed redirect.
Just a thought, you might want to uninstall all your plug-ins and enable them one at a time, run through http://blog.totalvalidator.com/ to see if you get any error message. A little over a week ago, I had the same problem too. I pinpointed mine to a Copyright Feed Plug in also Comment Remix.
Unfortunately, not all WordPlug Ins play nicely together.
Moondancer, thanks for the suggestion. The thought of removing my plugs and reinstalling is causing me great stress. (lol) lazy me. What other tricks you have up your sleeve?
Try just deactivating them. Deactivating will save all of their settings (except that you will have to re-enable super cache if you have it running). Usually deactivating will turn up the issues that deleting would. (Not always but usually). Deactivate them all and then test. If that solves the problem, then you know its plugin related. Then reactivate them one at a time till you find the bugger that breaks things.
Kimberly
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I’ve seen the comment love around never gave it much thought until now. You seem to have a valid point based on your experience with it. So I’m going to test drive it and see where it goes. Thanks for the post, looking forward to reading the next one. Goodluck.
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Glad you enjoyed it Rod! Once you get it set up and going be sure to check out my commentluv traffic video so you can make the most of it. It can be very very good for your site
Kimbelry
Hey Kim
I have to agree with you that CommentLuv is a must in the way of plug-ins. If you want to have a bit of a community start on your blog then I agree with you that this is a must. And I have to agree with your comment that it’s part of your top 10 plug-ins. It’s on my top 10 list as well.
Good call on helping out with some of the goofy things that happens with it too.
Thanks
Steve
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Yeah getting a community jump start is something we’ve almost “got” to do or we are just spinning our wheels and talking to the air! LOL The expression of “People don’t care how much you know, till they know how much you care” comes to mind. This plugin lets us care about our commenters by giving them a backlink and also give us access to those links so we can easily get over to their sites and foster those relationships! Love the win/win!
Kimberly
Glad to have you point out how great Comment Luv is.
I know how critical you are about these things, so coming from you, it’s quite a testimonial for Comment Luv!
Thanks for always pointing us in the right direction, Kim.
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LOL! I’m getting quite a reputation for that and I hope it’s a good thing!
I’m actually about to furthat that because I’ve been pulling some punches lately in favor of not being seen as negative but I’m getting really tired of people jacking around with my friends!
It’s about to get intersting. Thanks so much for all your support David, I know we dont get to interact as much as I’d like but it means a lot.
Kimberly
The new version of comment available.That’s cool
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Nice post! Thanks especially for you youtube video.
Hi Kimberly, love your blog. I have read about comment luv but not sure how it will help our photography site in the SERPS. I do understand that Dofollow backlinks are crucial to your SEO strategy. I suppose having a community of followers is great and any link is a good one. Thanks
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Hey Wedding Photography Sydney – just ran across your blog interestingly enough doing a search for commentluv photography =) I’ve got a commentluv enabled photography blog too. I’m heading over to your blog as soon as I finish with this comment. Feel free to stop by my blog too.
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I have also had commentluv on my blog for a while now. While i have seen a fare bit of traffic the one problem i have is i get 90% spam. Everyday i am deleting comments that have no relevance to my blog. I have no issues rewarding comments witha link as i believe natural flow of links is important but i only with comments would have some relevance to my post.
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I agree with you Kim. This plugin is in my top 10 as well!
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Just getting to grips with commentluv, it certainly is a handy plugin, and really will help to build blogging communities. many Thanks for the help ful post, and have been added to my list.
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I just stumbled across your bloig looking for commentluv reviews. Thanksssss sooo much for the detailed description of how to install and troubleshoot this puppy. I’m about to install it now.
Thanks again, you rock!
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Great post. Do you know of any conflicts with CommentLuv and the repyMe plugin? I cant’ get the repyMe plugin to display with CommentLuv. What “Notify” plugin are you using?
Thanks for the great tutorials….:)
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Hey, this tutorial is effective . But I am still searching for a blogger version of this.
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commentluv is just so amazing plug-in… it’s one of my favorites too. But sometimes RSS is not loaded what seems to be the problem of this?
Site error or what?
been wondering about that till now!
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Excellent info thanks. Heading right over to register with comluv now!
Had no idea!
Rob
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