Five Essential WordPress Plugins to Attract Top-Quality Commenters
The dofollow vs.
nofollow debate rages on.
There are those who believe that giving a commenter a dofollow link for leaving a comment is a fair exchange for the effort of leaving a comment.
Others feel that following URL's in blog comments will only add to the amount of spam and frivolous comments received on a post: "Great post.
I liked it a lot.
Visit www.
.
.
" Both camps have valid points, and whether you choose to follow or not should be entirely dependent on how much time and effort you as a blog owner plan to spend on building a community.
Some niches, especially internet marketers' favorite topics, are almost always beacons for spam comments; but for other niches, dofollow links make no appreciable difference.
On any of my blogs where I want to establish community, I will always replace WordPress's default nofollow comment links with dofollow links.
If you're considering doing the same, here are five must-have plugins to attract top quality readers and comments: Subscribe to Comments: this plugin gives your readers a very robust way to keep track of the posts they have responded to, allowing them to follow the conversation as it continues for days, weeks, or months.
Comment Redirect: this plugin enables you to redirect your first-time commenters to a special URL you designate.
You could use this to direct them to a thank you post, a private post for commenters, a reward URL, etc.
Delink Comment Author: this plugin gives you the ability to quickly remove the URLs from a post.
You would use this if someone abuses your comment policy and begins posting junk comments just to get a backlink.
With this plugin, you can keep the comment but remove the URL.
CommentLuv: this plugin will attempt to visit the commenter's blog, and retrieve the title and URL of their latest blog post, displaying it by their comment.
Commenters love this plugin! Dofollow: this plugin enables you to remove all nofollow links from your comment URLs.
Comments are vital to your blog's community, and if you want to cultivate that community, you should attempt to attract and reward top-quality commenters.
The power of WordPress plugins make this task a snap.
nofollow debate rages on.
There are those who believe that giving a commenter a dofollow link for leaving a comment is a fair exchange for the effort of leaving a comment.
Others feel that following URL's in blog comments will only add to the amount of spam and frivolous comments received on a post: "Great post.
I liked it a lot.
Visit www.
.
.
" Both camps have valid points, and whether you choose to follow or not should be entirely dependent on how much time and effort you as a blog owner plan to spend on building a community.
Some niches, especially internet marketers' favorite topics, are almost always beacons for spam comments; but for other niches, dofollow links make no appreciable difference.
On any of my blogs where I want to establish community, I will always replace WordPress's default nofollow comment links with dofollow links.
If you're considering doing the same, here are five must-have plugins to attract top quality readers and comments: Subscribe to Comments: this plugin gives your readers a very robust way to keep track of the posts they have responded to, allowing them to follow the conversation as it continues for days, weeks, or months.
Comment Redirect: this plugin enables you to redirect your first-time commenters to a special URL you designate.
You could use this to direct them to a thank you post, a private post for commenters, a reward URL, etc.
Delink Comment Author: this plugin gives you the ability to quickly remove the URLs from a post.
You would use this if someone abuses your comment policy and begins posting junk comments just to get a backlink.
With this plugin, you can keep the comment but remove the URL.
CommentLuv: this plugin will attempt to visit the commenter's blog, and retrieve the title and URL of their latest blog post, displaying it by their comment.
Commenters love this plugin! Dofollow: this plugin enables you to remove all nofollow links from your comment URLs.
Comments are vital to your blog's community, and if you want to cultivate that community, you should attempt to attract and reward top-quality commenters.
The power of WordPress plugins make this task a snap.
