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Does CommentLuv Really Increase Site Traffic?

commentluv-wpSorry to disappoint you but today’s post is not about the origin or history of April Fools’ Day. Once in a while I try to test one or two programs or products so as to form a personal opinion and this month my experiment is going to be on the CommentLuv plug-in. Unfortunately, I cannot call this article a CommentLuv review just yet as I yet to reach a verdict.

The CommentLuv plug-in was designed to reward and encourage blog readers who leave comments on WordPress, Blogspot or Blogger blogs (CommentLuv is now available as an IntenseDebate plugin) to return by automatically adding a titled link to their last blog post at the end of their comment. Although I have heard a few times that the plug-in increases the number comments and daily visitors on a blog, I am yet to be convinced. Therefore, I will begin a one-month mission to find out myself if CommentLuv really does spread the love or whether it will only increase the amount of spam comments on this blog. I hope  at the end of the day, my result will tend towards the former rather than the latter.

Strategy. I will use a very simple and straightforward technique which involves making note of the number of comments I have received on my blog in the past month and comparing it with the number of comments obtained at the end of April. If the result shows a significant increase in the number of visitors or comments received, I can assure you that CommentLuv will be a regular feature on this Weblog otherwise the plugin will be removed accordingly.My verdict will be posted as an update on this article on May 2.

UPDATE

The results are ready and you can read it here.

Talking Point

Can you predict my verdict?

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155 thoughts on “Does CommentLuv Really Increase Site Traffic?”

  1. well, here’s one extra comment to add to the stats! 🙂 I hope you experience the benefits of having commentluv, it’s not just for the increased comments.. it’s also a way to find interesting posts from your community all listed within easy reach in your comments.

    Thanks for giving it a go, if you experience any problems or have any suggestions then please don’t hesitate to ask!

  2. I hope that you get some good results. I have. My new Admin Blog has been open 6 days and has gotten 32 comments that are legit, non asked for, and spam free. I cant wait to hear from your verdict though.

  3. I hope you experience the benefits of having commentluv, it’s not just for the increased comments.

  4. I hope it works out positively, I have once carried out the experiment, its a super way to get others to visit your site. I receive hits on my site on a daily basis because of such comments especially if you have an attract headline!

  6. I actually just added CommentLuv to my blog the other day… I appreciate the concept, but so far haven’t seen any increase (not that I won’t – like I said, I JUST added it). I’m definitely interested in seeing what your results are.

  7. Hope to see the results of your experiment soon. I truly enjoy going through interesting blogs and posting my comments.

  10. I have been using commentluv and believe my traffic has increased with many back links,take time and apply commentluv,you will have the best results.Thanks for the information.

  11. I hope the experimentation of commentluv proof right to you and that is why it has become a permanent plugin in your blog. I am going to try it as well, if it will increase my traffic.

  12. Nice plugin! I found it great. I look forward to future post.
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  13. wow, i’ve just heard of this tool… well, i guess i will try it. thx for this post! 🙂

  14. I really like commentluv its a great plug in that increases traffic. I have been getting traffic for my different blogs using methods

  15. CommentLuv does increase traffic and is a popular piece of innovative software. I’m sure there would be many blogs suffering due to not having this capability.

    1. Probably true. It’s always good to take advantage of any genuine way of increasing (blog) traffic :).

  17. Well… round about every blog posts online don’t have much originality as I found on yours.. Just keep updating much useful information so that reader like me would come back over and over again.

  18. Wonderful article,thanks for putting this together! “This is obviously one great post. Thanks for the valuable information and insights you have so provided here. Keep it up!”

  19. Thanks for the info. I definitely interested and will install the commenluv plugin. I hope I can build many link with it. Thank again.

  20. Alright, testing CommentLuv on my own site. I’ll track if any links come from techsling.com… of course, it probably depends on the topics but I’ll report back here in a month.

  21. I have installed CommentLuv in my blog and my blog is getting better PR.Yes i do agree CommentLuv increase the site traffic.

  22. I hope for the best on your quest to commentluv this month. well, ive been using it to my blog and it really attract readers and SPAMMERS. Well, that’s how it is.

  23. Irrespective of traffic, there are other obvious advantages with comments on CommentLuv blogs. It will increase the traffic only if the original blog has got high traffic and trusted by many of its visitors. Otherwise, lets forget about traffic and build reputation with do-follow links.

  26. In addition, we cannot really extract them from the web. Now, they are not bots. They are human who act like bots. Spamming every forum available! web developers must do something about this

  27. Like anything else, it’s all a matter of how you use it. Installing the plug-in on your site won’t in itself increase your traffic. Participating in commenting throughout the ComLuv community of blogs with relevant posts will naturally result in people clicking the links you leave behind.

    I’m still seeing inbound traffic from comments I made over a year ago 🙂 If you post about your results, I hope you reply in this comment thread for those of us that have subscribed to replies so we can see them 😉

    1. Well said GingerWench. I also agree with @Hyderabad when he says ” It will increase the traffic only if the original blog has got high traffic and trusted by many of its visitors. Otherwise, lets forget about traffic and build reputation with do-follow links.”

  30. Seems like a nice program to me, however if you ONLY have commentluv links pointing to your website I think you wont really see an increase in traffic.

  32. I have to try this. I heard so much about it and it builds interesting traffic. People who would normally visit your site would now see this commentLUV and would try it out.

    great idea!

  35. Really a GREAT Information, Yes it boost the traffic, i am really very late to read it but now feel lucky having this information for getting traffic to my site.

    Thanks writer i really appreciate.

    Keep it up

  36. I will try to use commentluv and see if it really increse my traffic to the new blog I am building.

    Thanks for this great feedback about commentluv…

    Regards,
    Patrick

  37. I can honestly say I’d never heard of commentluv before now. This seems like an excellent tool to use, and something I’ve been looking for without knowing it.

  38. I don’t know about Keywordluv, but blog commenting definitely boosts site traffic, as I have seen from my analytics data.

  40. One thing I just discover about blog with commentluv is that some of the commentators on the blog that used commentluv plugin stick to the blog, rather than just have a comment and checkout.

  41. Excellent insights! I think Commentluv is also a great way to keep the blogging community active. It’s an effective way to gather a couple of interesting topics together which may interest your readers.

  43. I think using Commmentluv is a great way to get deep backlinks for my website. I’d like to write comments on blogs and I support those blogs that use this plugin.

  44. For sure CommentLuv is great tool to incease amount of your backlinks but i don’t know if it can change our pagerank, how it is with PR??

  45. Thank you for doing this test for us. Even if it is not a definite ‘helped or didn’t help’.. it was nice that you did the test for us and shared your results with us.

  46. commentluv would leave you into great experience in the world of comments, really feeling great using these wonderful plug-in .Regardless to traffic you will get a quite quality of comments.

  48. You’re still giving commenters exposure via a link back to their site..which could lead to more traffic and followers for the blogger who left the comment. I’d suggest it would be unethical to give the impression your blog is a do-follow if it is not. It would be great if people wanted to comment without a link back to their site. Unfortunately many commenters are fellow bloggers. In summary, no-follow with a link back via actual visitors rather than web crawlers and indexing is probably more in the spirit of blogging in the eyes of Google. I’m currently considering my options as well…whether to turn off comment luv altogether.

    1. You may have a point but any comment is a reaction from someone interested in your article whether he is a blogger or not doesn’t really matter. With several million bloggers around the world today, I wouldn’t mind having a high ranking blog for bloggers only. Also, spamming is a problem for everyone do-follow or not. Finally, I agree that it is quite bad to give false impression for short term benefits, however, there are many plugins that could tell nowadays.

  50. I think commentluv is a great plugin to increase interaction in your blog. I’m quite convinced to use this to my blog after reading this post so thanks for sharing this.

    1. Well said but then again some people are of the opinion that plugins should only be used if it is beyond doubt that they will be useful.

  53. I’ll likely comment on every blog that has CommentLuv enabled and the blog will likely end up in my bookmarks as well 🙂

  56. I just sign up for comluv via your blog. I wish this can boost the traffic to my site.

  58. Personally, while surfing a blog, I would sooner follow the link to someone’s post then to hover over their name to discover what site they represent.

  59. I’ve been looking for something like this for quite a while now, glad i have found your site and got really good insights.

  60. I think comment luv is seccessful at driving traffic to sites and upping comment counts but i worry that it will cause more meaningless comments with no substance though.

  61. Interesting test of CommentLuv plug-in. I am testing a similar plugin. It’s a facebook like plugin which offers a reward when someone likes your page. I will update my results here if you are interested in knowing them.

    Kind regards,
    Jason

  62. Actually, I’m in two minds about Comment Luv. I’m not so sure that it really works to drive backlinks. After all, wouldn’t Google realize that these kind of backlinks are not ‘natural’ and ignore them. After all, if Google is smart enough to build a driverless car, they’ll certainly figure out that Comment Luv links are SEO-type links.

    1. Yes, but then meaningful links, whether internal or external, are also a good sign of the dynamism of a Website. I was also caught within 2 minds when considering whether or not to use CommentLuv, Intense debate or Disqus.

  63. It’s not really a secret that CommentLuv works is it? 🙂 Been using for some time on many of sites now and pleased with the results. Glad to hear other are having success with it as well!

  64. Great test, love to see positive results when action is taken. Way to many people do not take action when given the tools to succed.

  65. Indeed commentluv increases traffic to your website as people are more likely to comment and the discussion will get into next orbit.

  66. So what is the result from your one-month mission? I really expect more about how you thought about CommentLuv. I never use it before. I fear about spammer. So I want to know more about it. Thank you.

  67. Interesting article. Now I am testing a similar plugin. It’s a facebook like plugin and google+1 plugin. But still done know it work or not.

  68. comments are social proof. With a decent number of average comments per post, you can show that up as a social proof, which is great.commentluv enabled blogs usually attract a lot of traffic.

  70. Well, for me it really increases traffic to the site because this commentluv would not be used if it does not build traffic to the site.

  71. I like the fact that it tracks back to the blog and see what the last blog post was. Besides giving back links one also gets traffic from other peoples blogs and I think this is pretty interesting. Andy Bailey, author/coder has also released released an update to commentluv.

  72. It definitely increases traffic. People are more likely to contribute to your blog if you have the plugin installed

  77. The way it increases site traffic is that most bots are looking at footprints. And KeywordLuv offers a very simple footprint. Any bot can search on the engine for KeywordLuv and come up with a list of blogs that allow comments with KeywordLuv.

    The traffic definitely increases, but the question is whether you get the right traffic or just the bots that are trying to send automated spam.

  79. I think Commentluv does increase the amount of traffic you get coming throught oy our blog but it can incourage spam comments, I think it’s a good idea to moderate them all. Or install a anti spam plugin.

  84. Guys recently i created a new site for watchin n dwnloading all d latest bollywood movies online. i have got some visitors for my site but i want more ppl to visit my site. how can i increase my sites traffic in just one or two weeks……………..?

  85. I think the commentluv plugin is fantastic! It’s a great way to increase your comments on your blog and increase the traffic! Thanks

  86. It maybe cause traffic for in commentluv plug-ins there are plenty of interesting and extremely informative post, blog and articles. In which catch the attention of every readers and entice them to leave a comment. Not long since the first time I had encountered about this traffic issues and yes I must say that it really generates traffic but the benefits of using this plug-ins outweigh it’s unlikable features like this traffic thing.

  87. I don’t even have to go look at the results: you got a lot more comments in April, didn’t you? Please consider continuing to use this great plugin!

  93. Commentluv screen blogs meant to be effective and useful to contribute good effects to bloggers. To increase site traffic that can usually bloggers used to read it.

  94. its really working. commentluv always increasing our blog’s traffic.i got lot of benefit from commentluv

    Great post

  96. Commentluv has really helped my blog in going viral by encouraging users to indulge in community and discuss.

  98. I’m unsure if it actually works or not, but surely it can’t hurt.

    In any case i find my self reading a fair few interesting blogs that I wouldn’t have otherwise found.

  99. I was a little unsure about CommentLuv, but after reading this article and the comments posted to it… it seems like something that is definitely worth a try!

  100. As I am reading mixed comments on the verdict of commentluv helping to drive more traffic, I am also unclear on the benefits for the commenter in terms of backlinks. At any rate, I check the commentluv box in case it helps with backlinks; and if it helps the blog, that is good.

  101. I have found most of the commentluv blogs are no-follow. Are these no-follow commentluv links really have any impact on increasing site rank & traffic.

      1. I have recently installed the premium plugin and have made my blog dofollow, if people make more than 3 comments, do a tweet, a like or a +1 of the article.

        I too have noticed many are not dofollow, but I respect their wishes as so many people abuse it…but many have the options ‘ticked’ to pass the ‘luv.’

        PS I like all your features with the subscribe, follow-upetc…is that a different plugin?

  102. I would say Blog commenting would not increase site traffic but it would improve our website pagerank.If we are posting comment on dofollow blog,we will have good credit on search engine and our blog will have reputation.So Reputation on Search Engine will improve our website SEO and PR,not traffic.
    But as soon as PR improves,traffic gets automatically increased.
    Nice article !!

    1. Yes I am completely agreed with your point Mr. bhavesh.
      I think doing commenting on do follow blogs helps to increase your website page rank. Let me add one more point that the main features of comment luv is, it adds users last blog post to the end of the comment that they make on your blog provided that they include their URL and it has a feed available.

  103. This is possibuly what a blogger would like to see in his blog. Search engines ranking will definitely increase and so as pageview if you have some decent articles or posts in your blog.

  104. Comment luv works for both the blogger and the commenter. You just need to give it the proper amount of time. If you have a good blog that has decent content and is user friendly, you will see an improvement in traffic. No doubt. Of course your site has to have SOME kid of rank to get people there in the first place, but do your SEO an create yourself a good environment and it will work for you.

    As for the commenter looking for backlinks….same rules apply. Take your time, don’t be spammy and make sure the the link goes to a decent site and some rubbish that you are trying to rank for cause it won’t work. Do follow blogs are a great way to keep a site actively building links going and is a great “PART’ of and SEO strategy.

  106. I have been using commentluv for a little over a month now and it seems to me that my visits have increased. I think this is due to additional backlinks with some anchor text. I plan on keeping it up with most of my blogs to see if there will be a jump in comments and over all traffic.

    To me, the mian thing is to leave good comments. People who just prmote their site and dont add anything to the conversation will not help a bit.

  107. Well personally based on experience blog commenting on commentluv blog will both increase you traffic as well as the search engine rankings! The key here is that you comment must be relevant that will attract readers to click your link! 😀

  108. Blog commenting would not increase site traffic but it would improve our website pagerank.
    Nice article !!

  110. I would recommend CommentLuv to anyone who has a blog, because it just helps to spread content, which is not for SEO purposes or anything other than more opportunities to read good quality material (hopefully)

  111. Even I am using comment luv for some time now. Not sure whether it will help or not. So, let’s hope for the best.

  114. I think the answer to this question should be yes. As you make a comment on any blog, your last published post is also included along with comment for all commentluv users. Some reader find your post title interesting and they visit your blog for more details. This will help in increasing traffic to your blog.

  117. From what I read commentluv is a good way to encourage other bloggers to post to my site. How do I let people know I have commentluv? Does it show up for them or do I just see it because I’m and admin. My site is http://www.extremecoregames.com if you need to see what I’m referencing.

  118. I am 100% sure that commentLuv increases our daily traffic and makes a big impact on it. that is why i am going to buy it within a month.

  119. CommentLuv is a great plugin that we must have and I am also going to buy it with in some days. I fully agree with you that it really increase site traffic and make more things easier for us.

  123. comment luv is an efficient tool for me ! it not only helps to boost traffic, but also increase our rank and the advantage of search results..

  126. commentluv is the most powerfull way to increase your blog or website traffic. Thanks lot of shearng your great post .

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