Which Blog Commenting System Should You Use?

by Mavis Nong on August 16, 2010

Which Blog Commenting System Should You Use? Commenting on blogs offer many different benefits such as building inbound links to your blog, interacting with other bloggers, promoting yourself as an authority or expert on a given topic and more. In fact, a blog without comments is useless — harsh but true.

Google is now factoring ACTIVITY more heavily in their rankings. Content and links may get you temporary rankings, but if you want to move up in the rankings faster and stay there longer, then you need to encourage activities which include comments. Read more about this here: Blogging Tips – 3 Primary Steps To Higher Rankings.

Blog commenting is extremely important for bloggers — we always appreciate visits and comments left on our blogs as well as the link love from other bloggers. Therefore, a commenting system plays an important role as well.

Now, which one should you use?

For the purposes of this post, I will be making a comparison between Disqus and CommentLuv. If you have been leaving comments on my blog, you would have noticed that I have been using Disqus, right?

For quite some time now, I have observed that most bloggers use CommentLuv and I wondered why it was so popular. So, I did some research and compared the two systems.

Disqus Comments

1) You can track the comments that you had made on the other blogs in your profile account.

2) It automatically threads your comments, so you have a flowing discussion.

3) You can rate other commenters, which will move their comments to the top and be seen as an authority.

4) It allows you to share your comments on Twitter and Facebook.

5) You don’t scroll down until the end of the comments to leave your comment.

Downside:

It’s not user-friendly for your first-time commenters to leave comments. The registration process can be a little bit annoying. If you want to attract more blog comments, you want to offer a simple process.

CommentLuv

1) It includes the commenters’ last blog post link at the end of their comments when they submit their comments. This gives them great exposure. This is an “incentive” that encourages your readers to leave you comments.

2) It has a great and supportive community. I didn’t experience that with Disqus.

3) As most CommentLuv users have a DoFollow policy on their comment links, commenters may get some link love for their blogs.

4) It gives the option to add KeywordLuv which allows commenters to use their keywords as anchor text when commenting.

5) The first commenter stays at the top.

6) It offers SEO benefits.

So, I was convinced by my findings to switch to CommentLuv. However, I was hesitant, afraid that I will lose all my comments! I didn’t want that to happen as they are very important for my blog.

So, this morning I bit the bullet and successfully installed the CommentLuv plugin and it works fine and I still have my comments! Yippee!

Your turn now – please share your experiences with either commenting system below and let me know how CommentLuv works on my blog

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