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Should You Put Your Keywords In The Name Field When You Comment?
Posted by Derrick | May 11, 2008
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There’s an interesting discussion going on at Problogger: Should you add Keywords to the Name Field when you Leave Comments on a Blog?
Some people get really upset about this. I can understand why - keywords in the name field do look spammy. But my feeling is - as long as they’re commenting, I don’t really mind the keywords. I don’t do it myself, though.
The discussion reminded me that I haven’t tried a plug-in recommended some time ago by Steven Lohrenz: it’s called KeywordLuv, by Stephen Cronin, and it allows commenters to add their keywords after their name, like this: Derrick@Online Business Blog. The keywords are applied to the commenter’s URL. So my example would appear like this: Derrick from Online Business Blog
This seems to me like a reasonable solution. It’s only of value if the WordPress default ‘NoFollow’ tag is removed - I use Denis de Bernardy’s ‘DoFollow’ plugin. By the way, there’s an interesting post on Google’s official blog from 2 years ago where they discuss the introduction of the NoFollow tag, and the reasoning behind it. The fact that it penalizes legitimate commenters seems to be ignored.
More interesting reading:
NoFollow is for Blog Spam…no Paid Text Links, wait…Paid Ads…Aww Heck, Just Stop Linking and Let Calacanis Decide the Rankings - Part One
13 Reasons Why NoFollow Tags Suck
Spam Shields Up!
Tags: commenter, DoFollow, Google, KeywordLuv, keywords, Problogger, Spam, spammy, WordPress
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May 14th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
I love this new plugin. I thought commentluv was great, but this takes the cake. I felt the same way though the keywords in the name field do look spammy. Now this plugin actually encourages it! Sweet.
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:59 am
Right, as long as they don’t leave a useful comments and not spammy comments I guess there’s nothing wrong with that. By the way, I love you KeywordLuv plugin.:)
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:45 pm
i didn`t even know that you can do this. I never tried it before. What do you say? Shoul i use it?
Give me you honest recommandation.
And tell me if i will do it, my post will rank better in the search engines?
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Persoanlly I am not really a big fan of it and when I see it a lot makes me think that the blog is maybe not very high quality. However if the blog owner is encouraging it, I think its ok.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
you should if they gots the keywordluv plugin! @_@
June 6th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I’m new to blogging but this seems like a great idea to me. You: (1) encourage comments, while you keep the right to moderate, and (2) allow commenters to keep their anchor text relevant to their sites. Seems like a win-win!
June 16th, 2008 at 8:16 am
The keywordLuv plugin is great, I am a huge fan. I have found that it generates a lot of comments. It also makes leaving a comment like this, where I want to promote one of my sites feel a lot more honest. Cheers for using it.
June 17th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I think that it’s a great plug in and I’ve found that it’s very well received by my commenters. I haven’t found an increase in spam, which I kind of expected, and actually it’s easy to spot the human comments as they use the correct syntax for the plug-in.
Cheers, Dan
July 14th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
How is this plugin working out for you?
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