I am a Blogaholic but unless I get comments I’m just not getting the complete fix that I am craving for. The thing is that I don’t just want any comment, I want the sort where commentators have put a bit of thought into. I believe that comments on a post add to the blogging experience of all readers as long as they pertain to the post itself.
To encourage comments I have enabled ‘dofollow’ so you can be assured your comments will be picked up by the search engines. I have also installed the commentluv plugin that will parse your last post providing a link to it. I also proudly display the “You Comment And I Will Comment Back On Your Blog” badge.
I have also incorporated a threaded comment plugin so that you can actually reply to a particular comment and not tag it on the end of everyone else’s.
There may be some that think I am being a bit harsh and that I should accept all comments but the thing is I take pride in my posts and I want to be able to show the same pride in the quality of my comments, as should you. I would also appreciate if commentators do not use ‘keywords’ as their name. If you do I reserve the right to delete the comment or change the name, whichever takes my fancy at the time.
If your comment manages to see the light of day then you can give yourself a pat on the back because it has passed my stringent quality tests. As I reserve the right to edit or delete comments and to moderate any ensuing threads you can also be ensured that this is a family friendly blog that does not allow any phobic content that may be based on race, sex, nationality, religion or whatever.
To those who do leave comments, I will reciprocate with a comment on your blog and hopefully others will follow suit and we can develop well intentioned and thoughtful communication within our growing community.
Having said that I would like to stress one exception to the rule and that is I will not leave a comment on any blog that I find distasteful, such as blogs that promote porn, are written specifically to stimulate, provoke, or Incite hatred against any person, group, race or religion or anything else that I do not agree with.
One last point, if your comment is only one line in length, I will put just as much effort in my comment when I visit your blog.
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I don’t blame you for trying so hard to make sure you’ve got quality comments. Unfortunately, there are way too many people out there who only leave comments in order to leave links to their sites or want to spam out your comment section.
A bit harsh? No. It’s your blog, honey. You have every right to expect viable comments. Besides, it wouldn’t be a BlogSire blog if there wasn’t a bit of controversy in there somewhere. LOL
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Controversy, yep that could well be my middle name Christine. As for the spam and the crappy comments, it’s a good thing that I allow myself the privilege of booting them off and boot them off I will.
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Gotta respect a solid comment policy.
Sometimes I don’t comment on a blog because there are already so many comments and many of them are crap… even if I thought I had something reasonable to say.
Comment luv is getting huge… maybe I should install it too :P
There’s nothing wrong with a bit of comment luv now is there? As for those blogs that have way too many comments, if I have something to say I normally scroll to the bottom and say it. Even if I may be rehashing something that has already been said I reckon I’d probably put a different spin on it. Yeah, I know I’m being slack but when you hit the big 50 you need to live your life as efficiently as possible.
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I like this policy – Do you moderate all comments? Also, you mention disabling “no follow”, but you don’t say how.
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Deborah, the first comment always goes to the moderation panel, but once it is approved all other comments are instantly published. Having said that I still scrutinize all comments and delete those that I feel are not worthy of being published.
As for making this a ‘do follow’ I am using one of the many do follow plugins that are available for the WordPress platform.
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I agree with your post. Which is not something I will usually do! :) I enjoy reading a post that will make one think. Also, thanks for allowing me to comment!
Keywordluv is a great tool to encourage commenting and discussion on your blog. The reader is rewarded with a useful backlink for leaving a relevant comment to the discussion.
That is true but there are many who abuse it, but it is their loss as their comments get deleted.
Keyword Luv is great tool both for site owner & site user.
Thanks to share
Keyword Luv has made a tremendous difference in my blogging as it helps bring in more traffic which ultimately translates into $$$$.
Cool, maybe you could send some of that my way.
As my knowledge KeywordLuv is a WordPress plugin, which rewards your commentators by separating their name from their keywords in the link to their website in the comments.
You got that right Umair
Hi There,
All i would say here is that, we bloggers all strive to get meaningful comments which will improve traffic and ratings. I’m sad to point out that while KeywordLuv and CommentLuv increase traffic and therefore also comments, they also tend to attract spammers.
Spammers give me a tough time, but ther isn’t much that we can do about them :-(
BTW, what do you do to stay away from spam since you have also installed the commentluv plugin?
It’s simple Elina, I do what all good bloggers should do, I spam the obvious spam comments and delete the ones that did not put any effort into their comment.
Unfortunately, there are always those who abuse everything that is potentially good. That’s true in the blogging world as well as everywhere else.
In my quest to find good solutions for spammers, I cam accross someone who claims that spammers help your blog’s ranking just like any other comments. I wonder if there is any truth to that?!
Sounds like crap to me Hanna. Even if there was some truth to it I will continue to delete them as it’s my opinion they bring the value of the blog down and that is more important than ranking.
I installed a new PC and don’t remember what you wanted me to use in the “What Do They Call You?” field. As you know in most blogs and Social Networking sites I use Internet Strategist. For those that use KeywordLuv I use Internet Strategist @GrowMap.
One blog I frequent prefers I use GrowMap, someone (you?) used to change it to I.S. or IS and to make the few who insist on names happy I have a pen name that I use when pressed.
If you tell me here what you want me to use I can look it up when I can’t remember. Feel free to change the field in this comment as needed. :-)
Hey IS, I will refer to you as IS as it so much easier than writing the Internet Strategist as it is a bit of a mouthful. Internet Strategist is fine as I now know that is what you actually go by on you blog.
Thanks Sire. I was about to comment on and share another post and could not remember. One of these days I hope to get caught up and visit more often.
I really like the dark brown used in your replies on the tan comments. Looks great. Did you see the new logo on my blog? Working on the post, attributions, and then will change Avatars and Gravatar to match.
Choosing the color of the comment box is one of the many attributes of this theme IS, and it’s why I love it so much.
Yes I did and t I thought it was really good. Can’t wait to see what you have in store for us.
It is really advisable that there should be guidelines in leaving comments in order to avoid spams. And also, it a good way to interact with other people.
That’s true Claire, in fact it’s good policy to have guidelines in almost all facets of life.