Link Building via CommentLuv and Top Commenter
There are two great ways to build links while providing comments on blogs. One is called CommentLuv and the other is Top Commenter. As you will notice, I have added both to my blog to encourage thoughtful blog posts.
CommentLuv, which is a Wordpress and Drupal plugin that allows you to comment and then have your most recent blog post or RSS feed post to be included at the bottom of your comment. To have this work, just type in your URL into the appropriate URL or URI field. Once the comment is accepted then you would see a link.
This works very well for any web page, blog, and other sites, such as Squidoo.
The other is a Widget for Wordpress blogs that is called Top Commenter. It allows the blogger to display the most prolific commenters on the blog, over a period of time, often a month. In the case of my blog, Top Commenter is only on the front page, so the link value is not diluted throughout the site.
Both can be set by the blogger to be dofollow (meaning your link will include the linkjuice from the search engines), which includes this blog as well.
How to Find Commentluv and Top Commenter Blogs
There are various linkbuilding programs out there, free and otherwise:
- Fast Blog Finder *Recommended
- Real Link Finder
- Comment Kahuna
- Traffic Kahuna (same author as above)
In addition there are great online search tools and listings:
- Do Follow Diver – Allows you search through a listing of more than 700 dofollow blogs, including many with Top Commenter and CommentLuv.
- A list of over 100 blogs using CommentLuv.
- The official CommentLuv active sites list.
Don’t Spam!
The important thing here is to not abuse these sites. Spamming hurts everyone and if a blogger finds too many spammers coming from a certain region of the world easily can block an entire IP range. Also, both of these widgets/plugins allow the blogger to block certain people automatically.
In addition, the spam-blocking plugging known as Akismet and the process of manually authorizing each blog post will eliminate any post deemed as spam. The important part when posting on blogs using either or both is realizing that its simply not worth taking the time to spam, as your comments will assuredly not be allowed.
