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Get some comment love for your static website

by jitendraag · 59 comments

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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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Hi, I am Jeet. I am a programmer and web developer and love to discuss ways to promote websites including but not limited to Directory Submissions. I also own and maintain a Free Directory List.

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1 Ali Hussain March 9, 2009 at 12:10 am

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

Ali Hussain’s last blog post..What Is Blogger’s Block

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2 Alex July 14, 2009 at 10:58 am

Hmm, am in same boat and will have to investigate this in details, so don’t feel alone!
Alex´s last blog ..How To Get Paid Blogging About Your Hobby

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3 Online Marketing Blog March 9, 2009 at 12:16 am

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.

Online Marketing Blog’s last blog post..Great SEO Quiz

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4 Jeet March 9, 2009 at 12:30 am

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

Jeet’s last blog post..Free Directory List

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5 Evan March 9, 2009 at 1:52 am

I’ve been wanting to install comment luv on my blog, and I think it will be easier now! Thanks! :)

Evan’s last blog post..Back to the Basics

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6 x-ben March 9, 2009 at 3:18 am

Thanks for the tutorial i have it bookmarked!

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7 WPThemeKid - Daniel March 9, 2009 at 3:25 am

I used commentluv at the beginning, couldn’t be bothered after a while though :D

I’ll check it out again, nice post.

WPThemeKid – Daniel’s last blog post..Orange Market WP Theme Release!

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8 Alex March 9, 2009 at 2:37 pm

What was wrong with it that you had to stop using it Daniel?

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9 WPThemeKid - Daniel March 11, 2009 at 3:10 am

Nothing, I just got a little tired of having to reinstall it on every new site!

Got it on WPThemeKid though ;)

WPThemeKid – Daniel’s last blog post..Orange Market WP Theme Release!

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10 gwen March 9, 2009 at 2:53 pm

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.

gwen’s last blog post..The 109 Day Link Building Explosion Day 66

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11 Janith March 10, 2009 at 5:08 am

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 :)

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12 Jeet March 10, 2009 at 7:06 am

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 :)

Jeet’s last blog post..Free Directory List

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13 Janith March 12, 2009 at 8:39 am

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 :)

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14 Jeet March 12, 2009 at 8:55 am

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 :) )

Jeet’s last blog post..Free Directory List

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15 Susan March 11, 2009 at 8:25 pm

This is a good how-to! Thanks for putting it together.

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16 Diolt April 12, 2009 at 12:10 pm

Hmm. meaning full post. keep sharing and keep growing up. best of luck…

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17 Increase Traffic April 17, 2009 at 7:19 am

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.

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18 Jeet April 17, 2009 at 9:55 am

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.

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19 hot holiday toys May 2, 2009 at 9:26 pm

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.

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20 Hanna @ 1 Source Host May 2, 2009 at 9:45 pm

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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21 Management Institute In India May 23, 2009 at 5:07 am

hi..
the information provide by you is very useful for me.thanks for sharing and hope you will share again.

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22 Anika May 29, 2009 at 7:12 am

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?

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23 Janith May 29, 2009 at 8:03 am

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.

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24 Elina Kidman June 17, 2009 at 3:55 am

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
Elina Kidman´s last blog ..Indian Forex Market – Forex Analysis

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25 Alex June 17, 2009 at 5:04 am

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.

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26 Jeet June 17, 2009 at 5:25 am

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.

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27 Alesha June 17, 2009 at 6:48 am

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 :)

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28 Atul June 29, 2009 at 8:58 am

nice tutorial man

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29 jspeters July 30, 2009 at 4:21 pm

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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30 Juergen August 11, 2009 at 4:22 pm

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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31 SEO Southampton August 14, 2009 at 4:19 pm

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

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32 Juergen September 1, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Thanks a lot for this understandable and quick tutorial. It works ;-)
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33 chris@wowstrategy September 15, 2009 at 12:26 pm

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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34 Travel Agents Indonesia September 18, 2009 at 10:40 pm

great website and nice share

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35 John Paul November 10, 2009 at 7:41 pm

Awesome post,, I have 3 sites, that I can use for this.. Great help man,, and Luvin yuor blog design :)
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36 RoseMarie @ Bakugan Battle Toys.com November 12, 2009 at 1:26 pm

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!

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37 Guy November 17, 2009 at 9:56 am

That is what I call a lesson in LOVE
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39 ReikiTech November 27, 2009 at 5:54 pm

Yes i noticed it was buggy also, the pages here load very slowly. I suppose it happens sometimes with sites

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40 ReikiTech November 27, 2009 at 5:55 pm

Yeah i found it was buggy as well, the pages here load really slowly. I suppose it happens sometimes with servers

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41 James @ Bakugan 7 in 1 Maxus Dragonoid November 29, 2009 at 4:32 am

Ok, now it makes sense! I have been using keywordluv quite a bit now I will give this a shot. Thanks for the info.

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42 James @ Bakugan 7 in 1 Maxus Helios November 29, 2009 at 7:30 pm

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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43 Jenny December 10, 2009 at 1:25 am

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!
Jenny´s last blog ..Why Training is Important for Forex Trading

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44 John Lusby December 24, 2009 at 11:33 pm

I will have to look for more information on this after reading, thx!

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45 Gus Starmer January 6, 2010 at 6:58 am

Great blog looking forward to reading more from you.

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46 Eddie January 8, 2010 at 5:00 am

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!!

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47 Eddie January 8, 2010 at 5:03 am

Silly question. Exactly which page on my site do insert link header? I using wordpress.
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48 Word Of Warkraft January 8, 2010 at 1:36 pm

Some excellent information there. Thank You.

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49 Article Submission Software January 12, 2010 at 9:52 pm

Great comment love tutorial

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50 Irmgard Hanneman January 20, 2010 at 12:52 pm

This is wonderful! Thanks for the information

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51 Ahmet January 21, 2010 at 9:55 am

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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52 Teeth Whitening Kit January 29, 2010 at 5:40 am

Interesting read, thanks for sharing! I’m thinking about adding CommentLuv to my site, do you guys know which CommentLuv wordpress plugin works better?

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53 fernando@mesa sinuca February 1, 2010 at 5:11 pm

Thinking in add CommentLuv in my website too!
thanks for post it, you have a great site
Thanks

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54 julien February 4, 2010 at 3:34 pm

Merci pour cette article

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55 yudhi February 5, 2010 at 4:11 am

very – very good post, thanks for this
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56 Ben the mobile phone lover February 9, 2010 at 7:33 am

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
Ben the mobile phone lover´s last blog ..Mobile Phones In Everyday Life

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57 Anthony February 9, 2010 at 11:41 pm

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.
Anthony´s last blog ..Cheap GPS Systems – Finding The Best Price

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58 wow leveling help February 23, 2010 at 5:20 pm

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

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59 javando March 5, 2010 at 5:24 pm

Couldn’t agree more. But you really should watch for spam when you enable commentLuv.
javando´s last blog ..Indonesia Java International Destination

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