This is a quick how to, type post on how to change the links you leave when using CommentLuv, now this has various advantages but first let’s just address what commentluv is for those who haven’t used it yet. Commentluv is probably the most important website plugin in use today. It allows your visitors who comment on your site to leave a link back to their latest post or article, very clean and encourages more comments on your site, see screen grab below;
So now you know what CommentLuv is, now the important bit, why change your link you leave behind? There are various reasons and situations I do this, I talk about this in the 20/7 rule coming out soon, but the essentials are;
- Guest Posts
When I guest post on a site or a site has done a case study of this site and they use the commentluv plugin I will comment just as often as I do on this site to maximise my exposure, now you could use the same commentluv link on every post, but if you reply say 20+ times on that post you are limiting your post title advertising by only leaving one link instead of mixing it up.
- Net
By mixing your links up you are casting a wider net, some people won’t be interested in the title of some of your posts it’s just a simple fact, so if you change your links round you will have a better chance of actually appealing to more people. The other thing about using different links in the same place or different places around the internet is you can heavily promote a post or article even if it’s not your latest., for example if you are running a post in which you hope to get more sign ups etc then choosing the different link will allow you to keep promoting that one post whilst updating your site with fresh content.
- How
OK first things first register with commentluv, it’s free and gives you a lot of options including help when you get bad ju juj warning, more on this to come. OK so once you have registered go to your site or another site that has commentluv plugin enabled and click the tick box to show your commentluv link to be displayed, see below;
This is the single biggest mistake of people not leaving a commentluv link behind, sometimes it is already ticked and when the comment is submitted the link doesn’t appear, to avoid this un-tick it then tick it again before submitting your comment. Now if this doesn’t work the chances are the site you’re visiting hasn’t got commentluv configured properly.
Once the commentluv box is ticked, it should show your last post, again register with commentluv to actually speed the process up, more on this below. With the box ticked you will see the last post appear, now to change that link, click the little down arrow (which can easily be missed) to display more options and it will look like the screen grab below;
All you have to do now is choose the feed you want to use out of the last ten options, which for this site is roughly the last 4 or 5 days worth of content, which is seriously handy. Just click which link you want to appear and it will then look like this;
So there you have it, really easy and a powerful tool to drive traffic to your site by using different links. The cache notice at the bottom of the ten link options shows when it will be refreshed, registering speeds up this refresh which is basically a method used by CommentLuv to ease the pressure on their servers.
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Damn.
I just canked my post on CommentLuv an hour ago because I couldn’t get the effen screenshots to line up.
Replaced it with a great post of course, but this is freaky.
And yes, this should be helpful for those who haven’t copped to it. I’ve personally been diligent about promoting guest authors via CommentLuv myself.
Watch for my article on Saturday (Carlos Velez coming on Friday), and I’ll go ahead and spill the beans on the rest of it.
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Hey Dave great minds think alike buddy, this how to style is something I really want to introduce a lot of
You may get some search engine traffic off of the permalink to this one as well.
That’s always a great bonus!
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That’s one of my new strategies brother!
I use commentluv, but I never new this. Brilliant post.
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thanks dude, you think the how to posts are helpful then?
Kinda helpful. Helpful in the way it reminded me to get off my bum and actually register there. I’ve been a bit frustrated at seeing not-the-latest post appearing in the commentluv box!
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yet another great tip James, I have been wondering about this… sometimes it seems that a new post takes a while to show up, but it is also great to have the way to give some older posts some extra LUV.
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Yeah it’s a clever way to get your commentluv advertising done properly like in mine below
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CommentLuv is a great plugin and I like your pointers on how to maximize it’s potential. One of the best things I did on my Blogger blog was to install the Intense Debate commenting system with the CommentLuv plugin. It’s good to know that it’s not just for WordPress.
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How are you getting on with intense debate I know someone who was having probs with it on blogger
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Hi Brandon,
I just set the CommentLuv plug in and found your article handy. My problem is I get 1 post instead of 10 although I have registered with CommentLuv. Also, the cache is set to refresh every 24 hours, not every hour as it should since I am a member. Any ideas why this is happening?
By the way, I found your article by Googling: “CommentLuv one post AND cache”.
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James,
Thank you so much for this information. I wondered why sometimes I didn’t get a link but never noticed the checkbox. And I never knew I could mix up the links. What can I say.
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Glad you found it helpful Ralph more to come like this
Sometimes I find that If I comment on some sites from my iPhone then I have to disable commentluv to get the comment to post.. (I get’s that’s comment divorce)
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Yeah I have found that but not on my N97 not sure whether it’s the browser compared to your iPhone?
Oh right, I didN’t find that little arrow back in the days
But honestly James, I’ve switched to Disqus, as it is more community friendly and more connected. It doesn’t come with that post link (yet), but I prefer the overall system. You should consider it.
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Hey Man yeah I have but I don’t get on with it because of the commentluv thing, but the major one for me is when I’m trying to comment on sites that have disqus on my phone it doesn’t work even with full HSDPA signal. It’s a good system just flawed really
Mars, I know a lot of people are turning to Disqus but I also know that many don’t like commenting on those sites, myself included. The biggest drawback being that you have to log in to comment. Sorry, too much of a hassle.
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I never saw that arrow before, but that’s actually a pretty neat feature!
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yeah it’s so easy to miss, I only noticed it after trying to play about with it
I am happy with that commentluv, does add alot to a blog and gives alot back to a commenter.
Glad I use it and now glad I got off bloody blogger onto wp… for now
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Yeah WP is more user friendly and more customizable, must get boring for people using blogger to actually listen to us bang on about it all the time though
Yeah Ja,es,
I was one of those blogger users who used to argue with WP users and get sick of it… but after being treated the way we were by blogger… stuff em!
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Yeah man plus your site is 100% more appealing now too brother, plus it’s easy to transfer it all over
Yeah I agree it does seem better and everyone else seems to like it enough too, the move was a slight hassle but got there in the end and only a few issues with the redirects, but think they are all gradually getting there.
I noticed the SE’s finding the new pages over the time since moving it, so hopefully all pages will be found before may 1at, when they switch blogger ftp off.
See what happens eh
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One thing to remember is that you can also get double the exposure using commentluv. I did a post about this somewhere but I can’t be bothered to look it up. It’s pretty easy to do though and is great if you want to link to two blogs at once. Once you’ve written your comment and before clicking submit, change your website url. That way you will have a two different domains instead of one.
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Really?
Well lets see if I can do that now here
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Yeah I have seen John Sullican doing this, good tip for those with more than one site
It worked!!
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Pf course it worked.
Although John uses it I like to think I was the first to come up with it. Having said that, the Internet is a big place and I realize someone else probably discovered it first, but at least I can say that I did discover it on my own 
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Ha ha leading the way man!
Lol, pardon me for the doubt.
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James,
I haven’t done too much with CommentLuv yet but will not look more closely at thing swhen I publish a comment on a site that has it. I’ve noticed sometimes it won’t display my latest post but I’ve found that after a few days it show up just fine.
Thanks for the awesome post brother!
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Anytime dude glad it helped, you get my email?
I know this trick but really haven’t utilized it that much. You’re right, maybe I would need to start mixing it up and maximizing the benefits of my comments more.
Nice writeup.
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Hey Melvin thanks man
Thanks for a very important information for getting more traffic.
I hope you know you’ve made a lot of difference to so many of us – me in particular.
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CommentLuv is the best. I like to click on links more than the people usually because the link gives you the story title. Good tutorial James.
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Thanks buddy I’m going to add more along the way
I’ve had Comment Luv on my old blog for quite a while and did not know this was possible (but always wished it were). It’ll be nice to promote a better post over a current one that may just be news related or not as important.
I need to get this up on the new blog yet. Thanks.
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Hey James glad it helped
Very helpful post. I guess I should get off my behind and actually sort out using it :]
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Great advice!
CommentLuv is an extremely valuable tool and being able to chose what article pops up is quite handy.
I discovered comment love a while ago, but when I did, I super impressed. I still swear by it to this day!
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Yeah likewise brother, amazing bit of kit
ahhhh, the part I was missing was putting http://. Thanks for writing this James, most of the top results for how commentluv works are completely useless.
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any time brother, glad it helped
Thanks for this simple but very useful post.
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really nice post, i read it all its good informative knowledge
Do you know if there is anyway to choose older posts other than the most recent 10? Thanks
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Thank you James!! I was looking around for that, I might have another question if you don’t mind? Is it possible to add our commentluv, on blogs we’ve already commented but which then didn’t have commentluv?
Thanks James!
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Widmaer…James isn’t here any longer, but I don’t think you are able to go back. I’m not really sure.
I’d say your best bet is to get back out and start getting new link love.
Brandon
I did find the post useful, thanks. It looks like CommentLuv does has some cool features and no doubt the developers with develop the plugin even more. You should keep us all updated if the plugin does change, that would be cool.
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I can honestly say I’d never heard of commentluv before now. This seems like an excellent tool to use, and something I’ve been looking for without knowing it.
Why do some commenluv links have “http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/”?
Is there a way to change it so that it shows the actual link?
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Thank you for the info. Finally got mine working. Yay!
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comluv is great.. i have been using it to increase the popularity of my site.. and as a blogger, i would recommend newbies to use this one to help them promote their blogs. but of course, that have to learn how to use it first
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