A good question today and a note on that as I have caught up on your questions. I can use some more questions so that we can address them here. Leave them in the comments below.
I have a question for you. When commenting on blogs, do you leave your main website address or do you link to individual blog posts?
The answer here is yes and no. I know not what you want to hear
Lets get into it.
Getting back links to your individual posts is a very good idea. The best way to do this is by commenting on blogs that have Comment Luv enabled. This is the best of both worlds because you can use your primary url in the site box and still get a link to the interior page.
It has good anchor text because it is linking through your post title.
The problem comes when you are commenting on blogs that do not have Comment Luv. Here it becomes a problem if you use the actual blog post link.
It is going to link through with your name as the anchor text.
Now if you use proper anchor text as your name to get a more powerful link you have definitely increased the possibility that your link will be marked as spam by the blog owner.
I know that if you do not use a real name on this or any of my other blogs that will definitely be marked as spam by me and quite a few others.
You are left with a choice of building anchor links to specific posts using your name or building links to your site using your name or not getting any links because your comment never gets approved.
That is my take on it and would love to see more people use Comment Luv so I can do both at the same time. It does help to get more comments because you are taking care of the people that add quality comments. Making it a win win is always good for getting more comments.
Remember that I love to answer your questions and have caught up with doing that so leave your questions and comments below.
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Okay all done with the Twitter series for the time being. Now to what has been changed in the environment here.
I have added WP-Twitip-ID plugin so that if you leave your Twitter id with your comment it will show up with a little bird image that links to your Twitter home page. Again as has been stated here the more that people can interact with each other the better for all involved.
One of my goals is to get back to doing a podcast version of the posts here and today is the first in a bit.
Now you can answer back in the same way.I have added a new plugin called Riffly that will allow you to leave and audio or video comments here. I do ask that you leave a written comment too because not everyone visits with the ability to listen.
Be interesting to see how this goes and whether it stays. Let me know how you like the return of the podcast too.
I am hoping you could share high level overview of what is required to “go to the code and remove the comments.” Is it something someone with limited technical experience can do?
Okay I may be old and bald but…
Comments are one of the most powerful features of a blog. It allows for interaction and for others to add fresh content to your site.
Now if you don’t want comments you don’t need to go into the “code”. You can actually turn them off in the dashboard. Go to settings – discussion and you can turn off comments.
Not something I would recommend as I work hard to get interactivity going on my blogs.
I can see times when you would not want comments on a specific post and here again you can turn off comments on any specific post while writing it. Towards the bottom of the page there is a section called comments and pings where you can shut it off for that specific post.
As always your comments and questions are welcomed.
Have not been getting the number of comments here that I would like. Have actually thought about using the “Robert Plank” rule. On his blog he won’t post a new post until he gets 10 comments.
Now I don’t want to do that but have done a few things to make commenting here more valuable for you. I have removed the “no follow” from this blog. All links will follow and be posted.
I used a plugin called “Do Follow” which means that when you comment here you get a valid link that the spiders can and will follow. I am considering though not posting until there is at least one comment on each new post.
That rule is not in effect yet but it is being considered.
Donna here. I need to know how to get around having to click on the post to add a comment. I have to continually write our subscribers explaining that you have to click on the article (post) and then the comments are at the end.
Part of the problem you are having is theme related. Different themes have certain formatting that can make commenting easier or harder. That is something to consider when picking your theme.
For example on this theme there is a link at the bottom of this post that will show the number of comments even on the main page and if it is clicked then it will allow for comments.
The other item is that if you are sending people vbia email use the direct link not the main blog link. This will allow the comment box to show.
Finally you can either use a plugin like WP-Candy that allows you to add specific text to the bottom of your post or you can hard code into your theme a message that will explain the commenting procedure.
