Top commentators blog
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As you might have noticed I have now installed a top-commentators plugin on my wordpress blog. The plugin shows the people that commented most as a widget. What might sound like a SEO-horror for old time SEO experts is a nice way of getting visitors on your blog.
The top commentator plugin rocks – if there is anyone telling you the opposite – take out a fish and slap him twice. But why do people find your blog just because of this plugin?
It’s very easy, the key to all SEO these days is getting links to your blog. Bloggers are always searching for dofollow blogs where they can comment (dofollow means there is no nofollow attribute on hyperlinks). Nofollow is a SEO killer – your backlinks do not get credited if it they have the nofollow attribute. Consequently you will be in the need of dofollow links. The top commentator plugin provides such links.
So, to sum it up – Bloggers are searching for dofollow blogs where they can comment to get more links to their website. But, you are not mainly targeting those (you will need a nofollow-free plugin for wordpress to do so) you are targeting the ones that are searching for “top commentators” + blog (not sure about the exact code, if you know it, please let me know, thanks). Those people will find your blog there and are eager to write comments. The reason for that is simple – the top commentators are hyperlinked without a nofollow attribute. That means, if your blog is relatively popular they are getting an authority link! That’s exactly what people are looking for – free dofollow high page rank links. Nonetheless, don’t search for high page rank links – page rank does not matter. It only indicates the time that is required for your site to get indexed by google.
So, using this addon will attract new people to your blog. Make sure you reset the statistics every month, because that way they are forced to comment every month. They will come back and every page impression means money for you.
So, let’s get started – download the top commentators plugin. Unzip it, open your FTP application and place the content of the .zip in your /wp-content/plugins folder. Go into your “Wordpress settings”, go to “plugins” and enable the top commentator extension. Next step is to go into the “Design”, “Widgets” and then drag the plugin onto your sidebar. Voila, you got it installed and working.
My top commentator settings
The next step is the correct configuration of the plugin. Use the settings I used. You can find them in the picture on the left, and yes,I think they are best. Reading my article you should by now agree on that.
You could perhaps set the time until the counter gets reseted a little longer, but that depends on you. I like my visitors to return every month, nonetheless it might be a little unfair for your old fan-readers who are subscribed and commented for months. Decide yourself which value you want to place there. Make sure to make the links nofollow-free. Again, the bloggers are searching for your blog to get top dofollow links – no nofollow links.
Some of you are probably rolling their eyes and say: “OMG NOES – MY PR WILL GET LOWER!!11!”. Yes, the Page Rank of your forum posts will not be as high anymore. Nonetheless – Page Rank does not matter, so don’t even bother about it. Quality back links do and you will get more of them with more people reading your blog. I will tell you something: Google is known to check the incoming links to webpages, whenever they do so they also occasionally send Robots to those sites. That means, linking to other pages will get all of your pages indexed better and faster. Outgoing links do as well matter for SEO, that’s for sure. Google loves blogs and user generated content, that’s why they also love the top commentators. Trust me – it is a good strategy. See this blog and you will notice that high-pr sites have the plugin installed as well. If you have some time I can only recommend you to do some commenting on those blogs. Most of them are old, valuable blogs – especially valuable in terms of link juice.
I found out about the next method on Hugo Santos blog. At the end of the month he is writing a post which contains the names of the users who commented most in the last month. It as well contains a link to their websites. That’s very fair – the users are getting a permanent one way link from your blog and also get a well-deserved thanks.
In a nutshell, I don’t see anything bad in the top commentators plugin for your blog. I only see benefits, it is a very good way of getting organic traffic and readers to your blog.
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Glad to see that you will reward your top commentators :) and thanks for the link ;)
i usually write something more in each Top “Month” Commentators, like a short description, but these months lately are crazy and my blogging is put aside
Your post has something really good to explain. Top commentators is beneficial for both the commentators and also the blog owner.
And btw, thanks for the link love :)
You could combine the top comentator with Keywordluv plugin – it should be a good combination.
That way readers could benefit from keyword specific anchor text in backlinks.
Thank you for rewarding your readers!
Rados
Thanks for the feedback.
@Salon: I think that would create too many links. You should not make your posts a whole link collection :-).
I like the Top Commentators plug-in :-)
However, I have across one or two blogs where they have the TC plug-in installed but the links are set to nofollow :-(
The Top Commentator plug in is a great thing to have. First of all, it makes the site look friendly. And as mentioned above, it’s beneficial to both parties.
Yep, I have to agree with you, it benefits both the blogger and the reader.
After Implementing Top Commentator Plugin to my blogger blog I saw drastically increase in the number of comments.
This trick works most of the times..
I like the plugin as long as the links in the side bar are do follow, otherwise its not really worth much. thanks for the post!
I can only agree on that one. People find your blog to get some authority backlinks, if they aren’t dofollow then there is no point in commenting.
Hi Hendrik,
great post! I am toying with the idea of putting up keywordluv and commentluv on my blog, and now I have something else to think about, too! This is really a great way to get more visitors and more people to comment on your blogs.
You were asking whether anybody knew the code what people are searching for when looking for “top commentators” blogs. I have got one here, this is the one I use, maybe that’s what you are looking for? Just type this into the Google Searchbox:
inurl:blog “top commentators”
Thanks again for the instructions on the plugin.
Petra :)
Have just installed this plugin, so expect it would bring some discussion at http://www.wpdaddy.com/blog/ since it is still a ‘brand new’ blog :)
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. You give such a good detail on SEO and I really like it. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
Thanks for the instructions. It makes sense to me that both the commentor and blogger would benefit. I’m going to add this to my blog.
Gosh! That is really amazing! I am sooo going to get one :D
I have to say that I am really impressed by it is to go through your blogand getting things rolling, this is an excellent site.
Glad you enjoy our blog :). We give our best!
It’s been quite sometime since I last visited this blog. Look like you have another great post entry again. lol. When are you going to stop posting good stuffs? :D
Hi guys, I have finally done it and added the top commentators plugin to my site, too! And to top it off, I made the links dofollow! Let’s see what happens now….:)
Great idea, plus its an incentive for people to comment your site which is a positive! Good work!
Hey I like your blog – great article by the way. I was searching for commentators and came across your blog. Very nice optimization. :)
I like the information on your blog
I have done some research on links and top commentators and I am learning that it is important to link to a site that is relevant to the content on your own site. If it is not, it could actually hurt your ranking. Is that true?
sorry, one final comment/tip for the group. I am using the seo plugin for firefox and it is a great resource to locating no follow links. It highlights them in red
Can you control whether a comment like this will have nofollow or not? if so why do all comments have nofollow? what is the reasoning?
Top commentators great plugin that allows you to value users activity. More effectivly react for spam IMHO.
I recently added keywordluv and commentluv to some of my blogs and have been planning to add a top commentator plugin. I do agree that a top commentator plugin will gain you more traffic and attract more people to your blog.
Is worth to you Implementing Top Commentator Plugin to blog, increase the number of comments and visitors. But spam is also become more ….:-)