If you have a “static” website that doesn’t dynamically update with RSS feeds, then you could be missing out on some traffic benefits. In this post, Jeet from Get Links Pro goes over how to make your content RSS feed accessible so you can use CommentLuv to promote your pages.
RSS was one of the most hailed technology 2 years ago. It promised to change how we read news, and how search engines determine new content and of course it completely changed how newsletters work.
The folks at CommentLuv used this powerful technique and made an amazing plugin that facilitates rewarding blog readers and commentators in a whole new way. Before this, blog commenting was not as exciting and an attempt to get a keyword rich backlinks to your site using blog comments was considered SPAM. Backlinks to internal pages on the blog was a distant dream.
However, CommentLuv changed that. It inserts commentators latest blog post with title in comment and thus rewards loyal readers and commentators. It uses an RSS feed on the blog to find the latest blog post.
But, what if you don’t have a blog, but a manually updated (static) website? Blogs get an extra link whenever they leave a comment because they have an RSS feed setup already. I will share a trick here that can be used to get an extra link for any site on CommentLuv enabled blog even if you don’t have a blog so to speak. I am using this trick for my directory list, and it works fine when CommentLuv is around.
Creating the XML file
The first step is to make a RSS feed file called feed.xml (or whatever you want. Just make sure the file extension is .XML) using the template given below. Choose a good title for your page that you want to show up in comments, it need not be same as the actual page title.
You should keep minimum 3 items for CommentLuv to recognize your RSS feed. You may choose to add more RSS tags like author, publish date, website title/URL etc.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel> <item> <title>Free Directory List</title> <link>http://www.directoryroll.com/new_directories</link> <pubDate>Sun, 7 March 2009 04:44:37 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Title 2</title> <link>http://yourdomain.tld/another-internal-page</link> </item> <item> <title>Title 3</title> <link>http://yourdomain.tld/third-page</link> </item> </channel> </rss>
Once you have made this file and have uploaded it to your server, you need feed auto-discovery process to recognize your feed. Assuming you uploaded the file at www.domain.tld/feed.xml you need following code in your homepage header.
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Your Title" href="http://www.domain.tld/feed.xml" />
You may choose a different location or file name for the RSS feed we just prepared and should be substituting the RSS URL in following code accordingly.
Upload this change and you are now ready to get more than one link when you comment on CommentLuv blog. You can get links to any internal page you like. If you know a little bit of programming, you could randomize the link that will appear on the RSS feed.
If you have a blog on a separate domain or in a sub directory, you can also use the auto-discovery code on your main site to enable RSS discovery.
You could also register at CommentLuv and choose the feed to show for your comments. But nothing will give you as much control as this.
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Thanks for the info and the to-do. I got an email from commentLOVE some time ago regarding the same thing but didn’t have toe time to go through it. Thankyou
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Hmm, am in same boat and will have to investigate this in details, so don’t feel alone!
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I have wanted to set up comment love for a long time just haven’t got around to it – so much work to do, so little time. Thanks for the tutorial i have it bookmarked.
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I like both comment luv and keyword luv. I prefer to use my name while commenting but these two plug-ins help in getting keyword rich backlinks and if the title is good, I click on comments ( like Great SEO Quiz) :p
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I’ve been wanting to install comment luv on my blog, and I think it will be easier now! Thanks!
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Thanks for the tutorial i have it bookmarked!
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I used commentluv at the beginning, couldn’t be bothered after a while though
I’ll check it out again, nice post.
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What was wrong with it that you had to stop using it Daniel?
Nothing, I just got a little tired of having to reinstall it on every new site!
Got it on WPThemeKid though
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As someone else mentioned I have also wanted to add Comment Luv for sometime now. We just added it to our SEO blog yesterday. WE are now also Do Follow. It should be interesting to see what happens next.
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I always do these things to my new blogs because it encourages visitors to leave comments and interact with the site
When it comes to making your whole blog Do-Follow, there is a negative side to it – SEO wise. But it’s well worth the sacrifice.
Especially on new blogs, that haven’t even been around for a PR-Update, the benefits of making it do-follow seriously outweigh the negatives.
Good luck with your blog! Hope the changes bring in the goods
Janith: Good point, dofollow is really good for new blogs. But I keep it on old blogs as well. I have to put an extra effort in approving / rejecting comments but it’s worth the effort.
Maybe another blog post from you guys about pros and cons of going dofollow
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That’s very true on the more comment-moderating but then again; just like you said ~ well worth the effort!
Thanks for the post idea ~ Jeet! Didn’t think about it that way, I’ll definitely look into this one
I was tired of seeing “A feed could not be found at” whenever I commented on a commentluv blog. I use the feed to show on ‘latest blog feed’ on forums as well
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This is a good how-to! Thanks for putting it together.
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Hmm. meaning full post. keep sharing and keep growing up. best of luck…
I’m thinking about adding CommentLuv to my site but have heard it can be a strain on your database. KeywordLuv seems to be a “lighter” application so I may try that one first.
I thought it’s the other way round. CommentLuv uses Ajax to fetch the latest blog post. Keyword luv would have to do a little parsing of usernames while it renders links. I haven’t read the code so I don’t know how exactly they are implemented.
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
We’ve been using Keyword Luv and Comment Luv and they are both great little WordPress plug-ins. Personally, I don’t understand why all bloggers don’t use them.
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hi..
the information provide by you is very useful for me.thanks for sharing and hope you will share again.
Very interesting read, I think their would be a lot of mixed opinions on this. Love the theme that you are using, what is it?
It’s a custom built theme on the Thesis Framework, and all thanks to the work of Alex
He’s an absolute genius with Thesis as you can see, or read more about it here.
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
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Yes, it’s just a negative tradeoff. When you think about it, any kind of incentive you make on your blog will always attract spammers.
True, any plugin that gives some link love to commentators will attract spam. Make a blog dofollow, spam increases, add keywordluv, more spam
But with good spam control systems in place, I believe the spam can be handled.
I can’t believe I have never looked into comment love before. I heard the term floating around but never thought much of it. This is a cool idea
nice tutorial man
This is a great tool for bloggers…all thou it gets difficult to find such blogs that have keywordluv or commentluv enabled. I installed this on my blog and I ended up getting a lot more spam then I wanted. But it is a great way to generate backlinks!
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That’s funny – since a while I was thinking that I should make up my mind to implement this stuff. Occasionally I found your post – so I can save a lot of time – thanks!!
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Excellent, just what the doctor ordered as I was wondering how to to do this as a lot of my sites have the blog in a different directory. This is going to help Thanks Jeet
Thanks a lot for this understandable and quick tutorial. It works
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Hey there, some nice tips here but just wanted to mention that unnecesary spam can be avoided by activating the akismet plugin on your wordpress blog. You just need to activation key from your wordpress account. Also worth checking out as a way of getting comments and also backlinks for your site is the top commentator plugin. Keep up the good work with the site.
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great website and nice share
Awesome post,, I have 3 sites, that I can use for this.. Great help man,, and Luvin yuor blog design
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After building a number of sites I am now being introduced to this concept of comment love strategy – the article further increased my knowledge – thanks – bookmarked!
That is what I call a lesson in LOVE
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Yes i noticed it was buggy also, the pages here load very slowly. I suppose it happens sometimes with sites
Yeah i found it was buggy as well, the pages here load really slowly. I suppose it happens sometimes with servers
Ok, now it makes sense! I have been using keywordluv quite a bit now I will give this a shot. Thanks for the info.
Wow, I am really impressed with this, not only is it more available than keywordluv I am finding how powerful this tool really is. Thanks.
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Commentluv continues to expand it’s usefulness, All great innovations to make blogging an easier and more effective medium. Hat’s off to the developers!
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I will have to look for more information on this after reading, thx!
Great blog looking forward to reading more from you.
Wow!! I just started my blog site this week. Geezz..so much to learn! Thanks for the tip. Now to figure out how to implement it!!
Silly question. Exactly which page on my site do insert link header? I using wordpress.
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Some excellent information there. Thank You.
Great comment love tutorial
This is wonderful! Thanks for the information
hi,thank you for sharing.my domain age is 2-month-old and doesn’t have so much comment.Hopefully this works for me.
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Interesting read, thanks for sharing! I’m thinking about adding CommentLuv to my site, do you guys know which CommentLuv wordpress plugin works better?
Thinking in add CommentLuv in my website too!
thanks for post it, you have a great site
Thanks
Merci pour cette article
very – very good post, thanks for this
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Hi… I saw your post regarding commentLuv.. I agree with you that this kind of plugin can bring us more traffic or at least from other surfer on the net.. even though it will be more vulnerable for our site to get spam..
other kind of this plugin is keywordLuv.. this also has the same level of attraction.. =)
thanks for the posting, mate..
best regards,
Ben
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Comment Luv rocks. We use it on our main sites, and find it attracts more people to comment.
A good idea for preventing Spam: Just alter your comments template to tell them that the links are ‘nofollow’ and any comments in the keywords in the name field will not be approved.
Cheers,
Anthony.
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Thanks for the post. I really do appreciate the content you post, although this is my first time actually commenting. Keeps me occupied at work
Couldn’t agree more. But you really should watch for spam when you enable commentLuv.
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