Ok, before I even get started It’s probably important to let the people that read my blog on a daily basis for the juicy pictures or ultra sexy videos know that this post won’t be that exciting to you.
Now if your a Blogger or someone who likes to surf the web and read some of the excellent blogs that are out there or someone who makes money online than this might be of some interest to you. New Bloggers or “Noobs” might also find some of this Blogging information useful in their own online social networking ventures. Take it from someone that has been making money online for over 10 years, every little piece of the puzzle matters when your trying to build a blog or make money online. This post will tell you a few of the tools that are out there that you can add to your blog in order to increase your comments, and gives you a chance to benefit from being a Do Follow blog.
I wanted to take a little time and post an article that informed new bloggers of a few things that they can use to grow their site, I also wanted to post the article to make people aware of some of the features I use here on Extreme John.com and some of my other blogs. I hope you find some of the Do Follow information, information on Gravatars, CommentLuv and KeywordLuv.
Gravatar
You may have noticed that there are a few places on Extreme John.com that this image (gravatar) appears:
This is the default Gravatar for Extreme John.com, and basically will show up in the comments of any article here when someone does not have a Gravatar. Many of you are probably thinking what is a Gravatar or “What the hell is that?”, either or this will tell you what a Gravatar is. In short a Gravatar gives you an identity or better yet a “Face” of some sort, you can use a cartoon image like I use 
or you can use a normal picture of yourself like Roseli E.Baker (who comments here) uses 
either way, if you comment on blogs, read blogs or your a blogger I recommend giving yourself an identity by getting a Gravatar. It makes people more comfrotable having discussions with people that have identities as opposed to some ugly blue square which gives you or your website no identity at all.
If you would like to add Gravatars to your WordPress Blog you can use WordPress Gravtars 2.7.1 which is a WordPress Plugin.
DoFollow
In short, a Do Follow blog like my site tells search engines like Google to follow links that get crawled by search engine spiders. I first heard of Do Follow thanks to John from Pot Politics and have been utilizing it ever since, it allows for people with their own website or business website to post comments and links here and recieve link love from search engines when they crawl Extreme John.com
You can easily turn your own WordPress Blog into a Do Follow blog by using DoFollow 4.0 a WordPress Plugin that allows your to selectively remove the “nofollow” from your comments section. Once you remove your “nofollow” links and turn your blog into a Dofollow blog be sure to add your site to the DoFollow Blog Directory so other DoFollow Bloggers can find you.
CommentLuv
CommentLuv
CommentLuv which recently moved to a new server is a WordPress Plugin that allows you to display your most recent posts on the blogs that you visit that also use CommentLuv.
I started using CommentLuv here a few months ago and immediatley noticed that I had more comments coming in. Sure people might be posting their comments solely based on the fact that they want some link love or traffic from it, but it still benefits the site by increasing reader participation.
CommentLuv allows you to reward your blog readers by posting a Titled Link to their most recent article, you can see an example of it in action in the comments here.
KeywordLuv
The WordPress KeywordLuv Plugin allows you to reward your blog readers by seperating their name from their keywords in the link to their website, giving them improved anchor text. If you scroll towards the bottom of this post and look at Lacerocks comment you will see that his name is displayed seperated from his site name.
Example:
“Comment by lace of Extreme Tan and Smoothies”
which is different than the default which would be displayed as follows:
“Comment by Extreme John”
You can take advantage of KeywordLuv here on Extreme John by entering your name as follows when leaving a comment:
Username@Your Web Site Name
This would be the same for any blog you come across that uses the WordPress Plugin KeywordLuv.
All of the things listed above are easy to install, take advantage of these WordPress Plugins on your own blog and when you see a site that uses CommentLuv, KeywordLuv or is a DoFollow blog take advantage of it and leave a comment.
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Unfortunately there’s no CommentLuv plugin for Joomla yet so I’m using Disqus and have turned off the no follow links all over my site (with no serious impact on page rank that I can see). I notice most of the comments here are no-follow, is this something you have changed your mind about since writing the blog?
@David Dorey @ Surrey Web Design, hey David I hope your having a great weekend. In regards to some of the links being No Follow instead of Do Follow it’s based on a few factors now, Do Follow is not on until the third comment and if Keyword’s being used in the Keyword Luv field are too many characters it will automatically no follow as well.
Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment, can I ask you what a few of your favorite features bout Joomla are?
@Extreme John, Just noticed you’re into MMA, my current project is an MMA Clothing / Community site using Joomla. Should be up at mmadream.com in a couple of weeks. About to start a site for an ex-world champ light heavy boxer too.
I love the flexibility of Joomla, I can create unique, usable and accessible site templates really quickly. The reduction in development time is huge, and being a one man band development time is everything. The number of third party extensions under GPL is fantastic. Learning the intricacies of Joomla is a steep curve but over all it’s a joy to use. Version 1.6 is coming out soon and should iron out a few niggles with things like categories/sections which currently don’t make any sense.
Another great article, Thanks John
I’ve been using Comment Luv and Keyword Luv and appreciate what they do for my blogging. Are you saying that DoFollow is an improvement over them or is it an add-on?You will find sites related to dolphins that use commentLuv. Read the posts and leave a great comment. Now you have two great links, one to your home page and one deep into your site using the title of the page, which is almost perfect SEO.
Hey,
Love the theme and header! I see your into MMA as well, which is cool! Thanks for the link love to with the KeywordLuv plug-in, it’s appreciated!
Regards
Dan
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Useful post on “Blog Commenting” but could have more indepth and explained how to find blogs in your niche, how to find DoFollow blogs.
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@szenovera@women only, thank you, however if you search around my site you will find a few of those posts as well. This post wasn’t meant to cover that, so it didn’t
I’m glad you practice what you preach. I have visited a number of blogging blogs that tout keywordluv and commentluv but don’t use them themselves! You not only talk the talk, but also walk the walk. Cheers!
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Sincere thanks for using these plugins on your website. It helps with getting your site get ranked too.
Hi there, Thanks for the opportunity for a backlink.
I’m thinking of installing the KeywordLuv etc plugins too. Hopefully it won’t result in lots of spam. I enjoyed a good look around your website.
Nice to know that you have installed comment luv. Good luck with your witch costume blog!! It’s a nice niche.
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@Wordpress Themes, long time ago, but yes thank you
Follow Blog, Keyword Luv,Comment Luv & Top Commenters are superb concepts, interlinking is what the web is all about essentially! Thanks for using this plugin
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@Mary Matson, my pleasure. What good is the InterWEB if it’s not connected right ;)
Hi. Undoubtedly, plugins such as Keywordluv, when used responsibly serve a mutually beneficial purpose. I thank you for making it available and trust that the spammers don’t cause you to remove it. I wish you continued success with your well-designed site. Cool graphics here…
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@Ashley, thank you Ashley I appreciate it. I haven’t gave up thanks to the spammers yet, haha.
Extreme John,
Gotta thank you for adding Comment luv to your blog. I try to encourage my clients with new websites to search out blogs and websites with comment luv. I see the process as a triple win really – the website owner receives comments that help their optimization, the writer also gets a GOLDEN LINK to their site, and the other readers, if we play by common courtesy can learn from the quality comments left behind. It’s a helpful SEO tool if used properly (as stated by another comment above)
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@Harmony- SEO Surrey, I have been running CommentLuv here now or probably well over a year, most of the comments it brings in are great. I have always been a big fan of Comment Luv, nice to see you also like it.
I believe it’s a great pluggin indeed. But am still concerned about how to avoid spamming. IS there anyway to install spam filters that would word well with keyword luv? That would definitely help.
Thanks to the keywordluv plugin, my site is now
moving up on Google. I can now be found on the
4th page of google using a combination of any 2
of my search words.
I have been using the do-follow plugin and keywordluv on my blogs for a few months now. I love that it encourages real conversation, and quality appears to have gone up since I installed them, but I am finding a lot more spam. I have looked into Bad Behavior to limit the spam, but I can’t really find many reviews or very much information about how well it works. Any opinions?
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@Brice Ashta@Belly Dance Shop, I use Akismet as my anti-spam plugin I really have no experience with Bad Behavior wordpress plugin
The DoFollow plug-in was new to me. I didn’t realize that links from my site were no-follow links. I appreciate that.
Have you any idea whether gravatars will become customized hyperlinks in the near future? Your gravatar for instance just screams “click me”. I think that would be a great traffic generator and would spawn some pretty interesting gravatars I bet.
Dan @ remax lake of the ozarks´s last blog ..Home Buying Tips: Lake of the Ozarks
John blog,thanks for the information,i will try out these plugins hope they improve my page rank.great site
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CommentLuv is by far my favorite plugin to use on my blogs and because of the huge opportunity it offers for getting quality links.
Thanks for the list! Always need blogs with follow links.
I’m confused, commentluv is supposed to allow dofollow yet this and evey other commentluv blog I have come across is nofollow. Keyworldluv blogs are all dofollow on the other hand. Am I missing something?
@Tom @ Camping Sleeping Bag, this blog is Do Follow as well and chances are that many of the other blogs that you visit are also, it depends on the plugin used. I use Lucias Linky Luv vs the Do Follow plugin. Linky Luv allows me to set a minimum number of comments before a backlink is given out. This helps reduce spam to some degree.
Three comments here warrants a Do Follow back link, however if there are too many words or characters in a commenting user name or in the Keyword Luv area it will also remove Do Follow on the comment.
Some excellent information here. I actually thought that all blogs where do follow in the beginning. Now I am going to get the do follow plugin.
Great to here that their is a directory for do follow blogs aswell
Thanks
Glyn
this plug-in really Great!!!! wonderful
and thank U to someone who make this plugin …
linkback from website with pagerank 1-5 or maybe 6-8 (i dunno maybe…umm I never found weblog with PR8 until now) become much much easier…
Thanks
Thaks for enabling this feature on your blog. I am going to switch over to wordpress just so I can use this great tool. Is it hard to switch and set up these types of plugins?
Nah it’s pretty simple
Am loving these features/plugins
I can’t say I like the commentluv all that much. It can triple your traffic overnight, but it is almost all spam. Not very meaningful cotributions at all.
Sorry I can’t agree with you there, especially since I am one of the many bloggers that use Comment Luv. It’s an excellent tool when used properly, when someone doesn’t know how to use it properly there’s no point at all in using it.
I cannot stand spam! I am constantly cleaning up my sites getting rid of it. Keywordluv is a definite plus for all pro bloggers. I have book marked for future. Tons of tips here, very good.
Since you hate spam so much please consider using a real username when leaving a comment and leave the MAKE MONEY stuff for the Keyword plugin I use here, people will take your comments more seriously and bloggers such as myself will be less likely to throw your comments in the spam file.
KeywordLuv works out great for the blogger as well as the commenter. Its nice to see people using it properly though and inserting relevant comments. I post my link in comments quite often, but I do it in the proper URL input box and take the time to write some decent contribution. Heres to this awesome plugin!
Right on man – I’m building up my blog to work very similar. I like your design and work here. Added to RSS!
Hi Jon,
Thanks for a great blog, and it’s awesome to see you’re using the plugin too. It’s so helpful at getting people to comment on your website.
“In short, a Do Follow blog like my site tells search engines like Google to follow links that get crawled by search engine spiders” these are great, encourage interaction from many users and benefit them in a few ways. The keyword luv plugin is a great addition too
How do I add commentluv to blogger.Ive been researching it for the last 2 days but to no avail.Have no clue absolutely.Pls help.
Hi Sonia, have you seen this: http://comluv.com/download/commentluv-blogger/
Thanks for sharing this John, your blog has been a great resource for me recently.
Thanks again John.
Fantastic knowledge
Hi Eztreme John,
Sweet blog post about CommentLuv and KeywordLuv. Don’t we all want some favorable link juice? The Do Follow plugin is very cool too.
Hey? Is there any room for a semi-noob around here. Not a total noob but maybe a half noob?
PS: I’m diggin’ the pimped out pink ride with the baseball babes. Care to share where that came from? Thanks
B
Certainly seems a good way to get loads of on-topic comments, but it’s a fine line between that, and getting loads of spam.
Just trying it out on my sites, and the quality of some comments is more than a bit iffy.
Suppose thats what the approve and delete buttons on wordpress are for :-)
Hi! I’ve been doing internet marketing for about 2 years and more or less know the basics of SEO. I know what I can do and I also know what will get me slammed! I’d love to learn more about driving traffic with social networking though. I saw Darren from Problogger drives most of his traffic with Facebook & Twitter.
This is just what I needed. Thanks for sharing this! I am also putting all these in my blog and I must admit they are great add-ons.
keywordluv is a great plug cause it helps us people get the backlinks that we need in order for our website to get more traffic directed to it, which will help increase the page rank, Thanks for the luving
Hi John, Thank you for providing other online marketers a chance for a good way of promoting their websites. Over the past two years I’ve tried a few different promotion methods quite honestly only a few of them have worked very well. I found that high quality inbound links made on posts like yours here tend to work and that a handful of article submissions to only the best article sites (ezines) do indeed work. I wish you the very best thank you very much!
That’s great news Bella, thank you for taking the time to stop by, read and comment I appreciate it.
Do you know when commentluv and keyworkluv will be available for Joomla CMS sites. This is a great plugin and would luv to be able to use it on my joomla site.
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