About Ginger
CommentLuv plugin for WordPress
Over a year ago, a new comment plugin for WordPress called CommentLuv spread throughout the WordPress community like wildfire. Why? For the first time, we were able to encourage visitors to comment by offering them a link back to their latest blog post, neatly placed under their comment. All automatically embedded into the comment area through the plugin.
Well, that was a year ago. Fast forward to ComLuv.com, and you have a plugin that’s morphed into a powerful tool for bloggers using WordPress, and Blogger. It works fine on your self hosted WordPress blog, as long as you don’t have link tracking activated on your FeedBurner Feeds (if you use those). I haven’t seen any mention of CommentLuv being made available on WordPress.com blogs yet, and from what I can tell of the Blogger blogs that use it, they’re still working the bugs out of that one.
I’ve liked the idea of CommentLuv ever since it was originally developed, and I hope to keep it activated on this site. You are supposed to be able to continue to use your FeedBurner feeds, you just have to deactivate the link tracking. The one stumbling block I found on the way to making CommentLuv work for me, was that the effects of the changes made to my FeedBurner link tracking don’t effect comments made prior to the change, so you have to post a new comment to test it out.
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That’s easy enough to do… but here on my own blog, CommentLuv was *still* not recognizing me as a registered member of the ComLuv.com site (even though I had registered, and commented on that site with a successful CommentLuv link). Turns out, because I was signed into my blog as the Administrator, the plugin was looking at my profile to check what site to pull links from. In my profile, I had listed my site as “http://gingerwench.com” instead of “http://www.gingerwench.com”. The missing “www” was preventing the CommentLuv plugin from matching me to my registered information on their site. Lesson learned!
So, if you decide to encourage your visitors to comment on your posts with return links through CommentLuv, make sure that you register the same information showing on your blog’s profile. 
One thing I still have to research is the “no follow” tag that WordPress automatically places on links in comments. We used to have to use yet another plugin to strip those tags out of the CommentLuv links. As soon as I find out, I will post the information on the “no follow” tag in regards to the use of the CommentLuv plugin. 
I thought the do follow was automatically set up when you install comment luv?
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I haven’t found any documentation saying so… When I first used CommentLuv over a year ago, we had to install a seperate plug in to make the links in comments “do follow”. Maybe Andy will find this post and clear this up for us
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not everyone wants dofollow to be done automatically when they install CommentLuv so I took that bit out due to the amount of automated spam bots that trawl for dofollow links.
if you want to use dofollow, I recommend Lucia Linky Love plugin.
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Thanks for the reply, Andy! I’ll have to put some thought into this… nofollow or dofollow, that is the question.
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Testing CommentLuv again after redesign. Wondering why older comments latest blog links have disappeared. Will have to check with my “registered sites” on the ComLuv.com site. *confused*
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Hi, I am new at this blogging stuff. I just got started with wordpress and I am learning a lot about the different plugin such as “dofollow, commentluv and keywordluv.
I happy I came accross your site. Very informative.
Ps. Will bookmark your site and I’ll be back.
Thanks again.
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Hi there Gigi
I’m glad you found this post helpful. I’ve just started researching “keywordluv” myself, so be on the lookout for more information on that too… You can follow me on Twitter for post announcements, or receive email notifications. Here’s my RSS feed if that’s easier.
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Thanks for this post, I look forward to reading more from you.
Great site and congrats on the ranking. This is a great plug-in I use them on my site as well it is a great way to get new fresh unique content as well as rewarding people with great backlinks. Keep up the good work!
.-= Tom @ worldwinner games´s last blog ..Do Follow, Keyword Luv, Comment Luv and Top Commentor =-.
The partnering of Intense Debate and CommentLuv is a great move by both sides. It's also nice to see Andy popping up on here and sharing his advice.
Thanks for sharing,
Karl
My recent post Who Else Wants Access To The Largest Database Of CommentLuv Enabled Blogs On The Internet
I agree, Karl… on both counts!
My recent post Ramp Up Your Blog Comments with IntenseDebate
I love commentluv simply because it allows me to find and connect with other bloggers.
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I have been using commentluv and believe my traffic has increased with many back links,take time and apply commentluv,you will have the best results.Thanks for the information.