Comment Luv is very popular plugin and most of blogs make use of it. So should you also use comment luv plugin on your wordpress blog ? What are Problems with Comment Luv Enabled Blogs ? What are benefits of using comment luv plugin ? Find out Here !
Comment Luv , hope that’s not a new term for you. Its a great plugin developed by Andy Bailey . I am also using GASP plugin by Andy. GASP plugin helped me a lot to get rid of Spam Comments. You can use Comment Luv to reward your blog commentators and getting more traffic. Currently Comluv is having two versions : One is freemium and another is premium. However its a great plugin from every side but yet it have some disadvantages. So today I am going to list advantages and disadvantages of using Comment Luv plugin.
Commentluv Plugin
Disadvantages of Using Com Luv Plugin
To Much Outbound Links ( OBL ) :- That’s the main problem of using com luv. If you are having at least Pr2 blog which have Comment Luv Enabled. Then you will see a lot of comments daily. Its usual and nearly every Comment Luv user faces that problem. Peoples like to spam on such blogs .
Every single approved comment contains 2 Out Bound Links. One with their name and one from loved article. Suppose you got 50 comments on an article, then this page will get nearly 100 Outbound links. However it doesn’t affect much but it may be a big issue if you got 150-200 Comments on that article .
Slow Page Loading :- Page Loading is a great factor of SEO. Search Engines love fast loading web pages. By decreasing the load time of your blog you can easily get much attention and visitors from search engines. Have a view on the article by Neil Patel . In the article he shows that how he doubled traffic of quicksprout by decreasing the page load time.
But using comment luv will decrease the load time of your article pages. A lot of gravatars and out bound links will make your article page to load slowly.
Nofollow carries some SEO weight too :- Time has been gone when nofollow attributed links were being ignored by Google. There was a SEO Myth that nofollow doesn’t passes juice but now it effects a lot. To much out going nofollow links effects the SEO structure of any blog. When you will use comment luv , there will be a lot of outgoing nofollow backlinks on your article pages. Another reason of not using comment luv is increment in Spam/Junk comments.
Advantages of Using Comment Luv
Rewarding the commentators :- Its always a good idea to reward commentators. Doing so will encourage them to come back and commenting on your blog again. In turn they will get a backlink to any article of their choice. But you have learn new ways to deal with some human spammers rather then robots one. Because some guys comments to get backlinks only rather then sharing their own views. If you want some happy commentators then instal the comment luv plugin on your wordpress blog.
Getting More Social Shares :- Social signals are great SEO factor in today’s date. They defines the value of content and website. By using comment luv premium you can get a lot of social shares for your articles. You can force the commentators to +1, like or tweet the article. Once commentator shares the article, he/she can get more articles to select from.
More Traffic :- Social Sharing will give you a lot of traffic and many chances are their of getting viral. People will list your blog in their ” list of comment luv enabled blogs”. So that you can get a lot of referral traffic by using Comment luv.
Should You Use Comment Luv or Not ?
From starting I am using the com luv plugin but I think in future I won’t be able to use it. However a lot of big blogs are using it since the starting and never removed it. But if you want SEO friendly blog then you should remove it .
I will prefer to make use of comment luv in the starting days of blogging. But once your blog started getting a lot of traffic then you should remove it. Everyone have their own views but I described what I think. Now its your turn to speak out about comment luv wordpress plugin.
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Implementing Comment Luv plugin will really improve your Blog’s Pro Look and also an area of readers to engage with. I think its a +ve thing to go on with CommentLuv.
Thanks for sharing Narender :) Cheers.!
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Comment Luv Premium has great tools to discourage spammers. We can remove luv from commentators whom we don’t think legitimate and we can reward our regular commentators with dofollow links and top commentluvvers widget…..
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I read the about the topic elsewhere too. But you have explained it in nice way. A good read literally. Thank you.
Very informative post Narender! There are so many newbie bloggers who are not familiar with this plugin. I just learned from you that it is not advisable to maintain Comment Luv in my blog in the long run. I will check on this, man. Thanks for the tip!
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Though I am in blogging for a while, I am not clear about this Comment Luv plugin. You have provided with me a very detailed info and thank you so much for the same.
We might not be passing on too much too much link juice. But we sure are passing on some part of it. Sadly for small bloggers like us, we can not have contests where we can offer monetary and other incentives to bloggers & website owners who comment the most. Isnt that sad?
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i am going to enable comment luv on my website…
I am gonan use commentluv – I just love it! :)
Comment Luv was simply made to give some love to our blog commenters. Blogging is not all about SEO anyway, blogging is also about social media and human interaction.
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it also helpfull for those blogger who want to get some comments,
Comment Luv Plugin allows Commenters to share their knowledge and thoughts with that of the other bloggers ! Also improves the Blog’s Quality ! I would rather avoid removing this helpful plugin :)
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I’m using Comment LUV in my blog from last 6 months and it’s working superb… :) Agree with your points listed above thanks for this post…:)
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I think commentLuv commenting is beneficial .I am agree that it makes too many outbound links but its really helpful.
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I have tried this plugin in my other blogs and somehow since last two google pagerank updates, it is at same pagerank 2 so I have removed this plugin but after reading your post, I am thinking to enable it again.
commentluv brings in unnecessary spam comments. I don’t like it for this reason. Anyway nice article.