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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Commentluv SEO Experiment1 - SEOContestAtIIITHyderabad

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Commentluv - SEOContestAtIIITHyderabad

Hi guys/gals, this is my first blog post of the allowed 10 for the seo contest at IIIT Hyderabad. Since I have 30 days and 10 posts, I'll try to test 10 mythical SEO techniques which you may find controversy or doesn't work anymore or not sure if you can use.

In this post I'm going to test the impact of having commentluv in a blog post. In case you are not aware of this plugin yet, here is an intro.

Commentluv commenting system encourages visitor engagement in discussion as it rewards them with a link to their latest post at the end of the comment. Commentluv pro has advanced options which provides more control over the settings like making dofollow or nofollow links, G+ upvote option to show 10 latest post to link to etc..

So basically you get a dofollow link for reading and leaving a honest non-spammy comment.

But here are some of the conflicting yet intriguing point on commentluv.
  • It encourages visitors to comeback your blog more often to check for any latest posts or updates for an opportunity to comment and a reward of a dofollow link. So loyal visitors..a plus for your site and a SEO.
  • To make a non-spammy comment visitors have to read through the entire post to make a proper and relevant comment in order to get their comments through moderation. So increase in the time spent by visitors..a SEO.
  • To get a dofollow link from a relevant niche visitors may be encouraged to dig deep in the site's archive. So less bounce rate..a SEO.
  • A large number of comments with large number of dofollow links are meant to be leaking site juice to the linking sites. So harming the host having commentluv? A negative SEO?
  • The first 3 points are suppose to happen naturally and that's what google wants. So because of commentluv it happens a lot less un-naturally. So will google ignore these parameters from commentluv?
  • What it is like to be seen as a site with large number of links to other sites from Google's perspective? 
Sharing your thoughts and experience on commentluv or this post is most valid. After all this post is all about commentluv, so your interaction will answer my questions and I'd luv to share the results of SEO if any. Thanks.

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My recent post Commentluv SEO Experiment1 - SEOContestAtIIITHyderabad
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Day2 and not much of a comment activity going on except me doing the comments..
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Can i have the details of the seo competition because even i want to participate in it.

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Check the about page in this blog, it has all the detail you need.
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Hi Pranesh,

I'm Ileane and I'm the official CommentLuv Ambassador. You can read the post and listen to the podcast to find out more about the SEO features and impact of using CommentLuv.

Keep in mind that if you have a CommentLuv blog that doesn't mean you have to use Do Follow. It's up to the blogger if they want to give Do Follow or not.
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Thanks IIeane for dropping by..and for this blog CommentLuv widget applied through intensedebate comment system which doesn't provide control over the settings for dofollow..
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Would appreciate some relevant and thought process to this post before spamming with links..
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I think if your site has a good rank and you are providing links to lower ranking sites then this is not necessarily going to help the ranking of your site. However, if the guest author is posting regularly and providing good information ( is on Google +) then that is another Google algorithum factor which is coming into play ( author rank) so it could be ok. Not 100% sure on comment luv but perhaps your testing will show something.

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Virginia, you gave me a new perspective to author rank. So if an influential author happen to comment on a post then it'll be like a +1 vote to that post from that author..Great.

As for linking to higher page rank to lower PR site, I still have not figure that out. But over all it seems like a win win situation for post the commentators and the site being commented. Am already seeing some results of Good SEO for having visitors engagement. This post is ranking better than all the others, Even the home page in Google lol :)
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Interesting points on the CommentLuv blog. I've been considering it for my blog to try and increase the engagement since mine is next to nothing. I look forward to seeing your future thoughts on this platform and if it's helped your SEO efforts!
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interesting. i am just experimenting, set it up on all my blogs. Surely it would give more social media action and that is what Google is looking for. Despite I am fed up with deleting spam comments all the time even though I have Askimet. Now I tried Spam blocker with CommentLuv. It is also important to note that the bounce rate will go down significantly if people leave comments and read the posts.
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Viewer interaction will definitely help your content as they will have to read and spend more time and probably will search for a right niche. But the negative impact as you said, the spamming is frustrating and other thing is very rarely the comments lead up to a healthy discussion. Most of the times it'll be just another opinion or replicated from content with praises. But atleast this will encourage others(non-writers) to share their thoughts and be genuine..

thanks Laura for stopping by..:)

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I've been reading a lot of blog about commentluv and I can say it really work best for a site specially in gaining for visitors.
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I appreciate the effort you put in your blog to promote SEO techniques. I just wanted to know about the technique involved in placing the plug in to a blog..can you please provide me that information!!

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