WebDiggin.com: An Adventure to Make Money Online

Like all bloggers, we want people to read our stuff. Better yet, we want people to leave comments on our site. So, with that in mind, we’re trying to make our blog - blogger-friendly with the following wordpress widgets.

Here are 4 reasons why you should leave comments on this site.

1. We’ve installed CommentLuv so that every time you comment, the plugin will find your most recent post and directly link to it.
2. We’ve turned off the no-follow so that when you comment on our site, you’re getting the full link back to your site.
3. We’re installed the Show Top Commentators plugin to help improve your technorati rank and drive traffic to your site.
4. We’ve installed the Subscribe to Comments plugin to help you respond to discussion inspired by your ideas.

So what are you waiting for? Leave a comment on this post or in our guestbook!

1. We’ve installed CommentLuv so that every time you comment, the plugin will find your most recent post and directly link to it. We first heard about CommentLuv from GoGetTheFlowers. GoGetTheFlowers did a post about how difficult it is to articulate what it is that you do. We left a comment from our Ripples of Kindness site and the CommentLuv plugin picked up our most recent post (at the time): No Big Deal at the Supermarket. Neat.

The CommentLuv plugin is a way to reward people leaving a comment by linking directly to their most recent post. Stephin Cronin comments about how to maximize the CommentLuv plugin by turning off the feedburner redirect in RSS feeds. Shankri-la provides step-by-step instructions on how to turn off this option in feedburner:

• Login to your FeedBurner account
• Choose the feed you want to edit
• Under the Analyze tab, click on the ‘FeedBurner StatsPRO’ at the very bottom of the sidebar. (FeedBurner PRO was made free after Google acquired it)
• Uncheck ‘Item Link Clicks’ shown in the screenshot and save it.

Feedburner is great, and we continue to use it, but by turning off the “item link clicks” option in FeedBurner PRO, you the PageRank / SERPs benefits are going to your site, instead of FeedBurner.

2. We’ve installed the turned off the no-follow so that when you comment on our site, you’re getting the full link back to your site. When you leave a comment with your website information, chances are your name shows up as a link to your website. If you’re new to the game, you might not realize that the link includes a “no follow” code that prevents you from getting the full SEO benefit of the link.

The No Follow Case by Case plugin lets us remove the nofollow link (but we can easily and selectively put it back to negative comments that we don’t want to support.)

• Strip nofollow from comment links, pingbacks and trackbacks (default).
• Selectively apply nofollow to any comment link you do not like to support.
• Selectively apply nofollow to any comment author link you do not like to support.

We checked out the page source and it’s true. Here’s a before and after example from a comment on our Rejected due to lack of traffic post:

• before: <a href=’http://stephendatoc.blogspot.com/’ rel=’external nofollow’>Stephen Datoc</a>

• after: <a href=’http://stephendatoc.blogspot.com/’>Stephen Datoc</a>

3. We’re installed the show top commentators plugin to help improve our technorati rank and drive traffic to your site. Not only will there be a direct link to your site if you’re a top commentator, but Katy’s post on I’m Bloggin That and Brian’s post on Elite by Design point out 3 reasons how being a top commentator also helps your ranking on Technorati:

1. When you leave your name for a comment, brand it with the keywords that you want to be associated with your site. For example, “Internet Marketing”
2. You get two high quality back links for becoming a top-commentator. One from the sidebar showing the Top Commentator widget and one from the post itself.
3. Blogs using the top commentator plugin are linking to your website which is helping out with your ranking on technorati.

4. We’ve installed the Subscribe to Comments plugin to help you respond to discussion inspired by your ideas. In floating around the blogosphere, we love the blogs that give us the option to receive email notification when people follow up on our comments. The Subscribe to Comments plugin lets your commentators get email updates, but also, when they revisit a post that they’ve commented on, they can manage their comment subscription to that post, including editing the email address they used, as well as unsubscribing or blocking their email.

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