As promised, I have implemented some changes here at Blogging Mix to make your visits and comments even more rewarding. Here’s the list of the new features I have added.
- Comments here at Blogging Mix have been made ‘DOFOLLOW’. - Finally, I was able to install a ‘DoFollow’ Wordpress Plug-in to make sure that links in the comments are followed by Google robots. There’s not much link juice at the moment because Google took my PR recently but I applied for reconsideration so I should get back my Page Rank in the coming weeks.
- Comments here at Blogging Mix get additional link - CommentLuv. - Other than getting a link for leaving your comments, your latest post will appear at the bottom of your comments. CommentLuv Plugin visits your feed and attempt to scrape the last post you made and display it under your comment. Try leaving your comments here and see for yourself.
- Top 5 Commentators get links at the sidebar of Blogging Mix. - I have also installed Top Commentators Widget to reward those who commented the most here at Blogging Mix. The comments are accumulated and updated every month. This will allow people new to Blogging Mix to have the chance to become one of the Top Commentators. All the 5 top commentators get a link to their blog and get free text ads on the sidebar of Blogging Mix.
If there’s anything you wish me to add here at Blogging Mix, feel free to use the Contact Form.
Thank you for your time and I hope you like the new features added here at Blogging Mix. 
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Simple Mindz responded on 15 Mar 2008 at 9:17 am #
I use these plugins also. I love them. The comment luv plugin is my favorite though.
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Cindy Szponder responded on 15 Mar 2008 at 11:20 am #
Great ideas and greatly appreciated. I’ve just recently found your blog and look forward to reading more posts from your site.
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Wakish responded on 15 Mar 2008 at 9:34 pm #
That’s a wonderful enhancements
Keep going!
PS: Keep us updated about how you find the “DoFollow” progress..
- Wakish -
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Diana responded on 16 Mar 2008 at 9:00 am #
1. I see that your links in comments are still with nofollow.
2. Where did you applied for PR reconsideration? I want to apply to for 2 of my blogs.
3. Commentluv is a great plugin, I’ve used it for some time ago.
4. You should be aware that Top Commentators can be hijacked by spammers. They choose a name from your TC list and they link to a spam site, and in your TC list will appear the spam site instead of the good site.
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Diana responded on 16 Mar 2008 at 9:02 am #
You should also add the Subscribe To Comments plugin. When I comment on someone’s blog, I want to be notified if I get an answer.
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Blogging Mix responded on 16 Mar 2008 at 3:54 pm #
@ Diana,
Links in the comment is made DOFOLLOW when you leave your comments more than 3 times. You can check the links to Wakish’s comments. All were made DOFOLLOW because he commented more than 3 times. I’m using Lucia’s Link Love and I love this feature as it trims down spammers.
Cheers,
Rocky
Barbara Ling (aka Owlbert) responded on 16 Mar 2008 at 4:30 pm #
Happy Sunday,
Commentluv is a super plugin; I’ve installed it at my blogs as well. I also tried the automatic email thanks plugin, but took that off - I find that giving a personal emailed response is far more appreciated.
Best wishes,
Barbara
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Film-Book dot Com responded on 17 Mar 2008 at 12:46 am #
Keep us updated on DoFollow.
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Link Building Bible responded on 17 Mar 2008 at 1:33 am #
Thank you for helping to encourage young webmasters to be able to build some backlinks to their site. I also like that you have moderation on, so that it will cut down on spam, so that when i come to your blog, and read through the comments, I can find some good posts actually relating to the topic, rather than wading through tons of spam.
Link Building Bible’s last blog post..What is DoFollow? What is NoFollow? Follow Along and See.
Blogging Mix responded on 17 Mar 2008 at 1:33 pm #
@ Barbara Ling,
At some point thanks plugin is helpful in reminding your visitors about your blog but in most cases, I believe it will annoy your visitors. And like you’ve said, it’s more appreciated if you thank your readers with a personal emailed response.
exinco responded on 17 Mar 2008 at 3:28 pm #
after reading i’m little confuse.
which one is use nofollow and dofollow and which one don’t.
-all paid post should use nofollow
-comment and blogroll use dofollow
am i correct?
how about blog contest?
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Mademind responded on 21 Mar 2008 at 2:19 am #
i think that paid post should also be dofollow. What is wrong about that?
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moserw responded on 21 Mar 2008 at 1:54 pm #
Sounds interesting. Going to check out these plugins myself.
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Hye responded on 21 Mar 2008 at 9:35 pm #
Wow… I lost my Pagerank in my Space of Reality blog from 3 to zero… you mentioned you applied for reconsideration… can I apply too? How? Sorry, I am still a newbie to the blogging world and I really appreciate it if you can help me
Hye
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Chauncy responded on 29 Mar 2008 at 11:06 am #
Very nice that you’re joining the do-follow movement. I’ve noticed that Do-follow blogs have notably greater community interaction.
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sam responded on 29 Mar 2008 at 2:07 pm #
Keep going!
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Ben Durban responded on 01 Apr 2008 at 6:22 am #
Where are the links to the plugins? Anyone know ?
Ben Durban
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Justine Compton responded on 03 Apr 2008 at 3:41 pm #
why not try this? Like you were rite on =)
ourmonmouth responded on 10 Apr 2008 at 1:55 am #
I think this is a great strategy for encouraging interaction with the blogging community.. The only downside as others have pointed out is an increase in spam.
Stephan Miller responded on 15 Apr 2008 at 12:32 am #
It has increased comments on one of my blogs. I just installed it on another today and started a series of link love posts for CommentLuv users. Your blog is on the first post.
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Manish Patel responded on 15 Apr 2008 at 12:53 am #
Very Nice!
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Jason responded on 21 Apr 2008 at 7:32 pm #
Sweet! I luv blog owners who show link luv.
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Jason responded on 21 Apr 2008 at 7:34 pm #
Hye, in order to apply for reconsideration you have to have a google webmaster account, which is free. Do a search on Google for Google webmaster and it will take you right to it. After you sign up, add your site and verify it. After it is verified, there is a link on the right hand side of the console page which says “request reconsideration”. Click on that link and fill out the information.
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Digital SLR Joe responded on 25 Apr 2008 at 5:32 am #
Pretty good article. I like it, keep it up.
Craig Harper responded on 12 May 2008 at 12:07 am #
The more I read about CommentLuv the more I’m considering moving from Blogger to Wordpress.
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poer responded on 08 Jul 2008 at 10:23 am #
Keep on blogging, we need you. I’ve got so much useful stuff from your blog and really value you opinion in this stuff.
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JS@BusbySeoChallenge responded on 17 Aug 2008 at 9:07 pm #
Interesting!
CommentLuv helps you reward your commentators by separating their name from their keywords in the link to their site. This gives them improved anchor text, which can help their site rank higher in the search engine results.
You can now leave a comment with your name as well as a keyword of your choice here and get a PR5 link back to your site! How cool is that? People pay big bucks for that and all you have to do is comment here.
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