Posted 04 January 2010 10:34am by Andrew Girdwood with 136 comments

This post is intended to be a whirlwind of the three main competing comment communities; Intense Debate, Disqus and the newly rebranded ECHO.

I know from experience people, still, always want to talk SEO when we start to talk comments so let’s tackle that head on...

In the beginning comments on blogs were seen as a win-win scenario.

The blog owner could see that someone cared enough about the post to comment. The blog owner got some free copy. Someone else was writing for their blog; albeit just a little paragraph or so. It was still content and content was still king. The kindly person leaving the comment got something too. In the old days they got a link back to a site of their choice.

This apparently mutually beneficial setup was so strong that many bloggers, especially blog commentators, were very happy. Many people didn't want to change. They didn't want to loose the comments or the links they could get from comments. They didn't want some odd JavaScript powered widget on their site in control of their content.

And yet it made sense to change the model.

The first problem was a lack of community.

All three of the comment communities I’ll quickly show case here had community at their heart. Sure they offered improvements on the basic commenting functionality offered by some popular blog platforms,  especially Google’s Blogger but that wasn’t the main thrust of the idea.

With ECHO, Disqus and Intense Debate comments are collected across many blogs. Once you’ve signed up to one Disqus powered blog, for example, you use the very same account to comment on others. Your comments belong to you.

For example, you can arrive at a blog for the first time, leave a comment and not only have all your avatars and profile set up but also show that the Disqus community consider you a good commentator. You’ve a high number of Disqus points earned by being part of the community elsewhere.

This works for a certain type of commentator. They might not get the link, not if the blog is using the JavaScript version of the comment community, but they get the profile boost. They get the kudos. They’re encouraged to post a thoughtful comment rather than a “me too” comment.

For the blogger, for the social media savvy blogger, this equates to a better type of commentator. These are the community builders bloggers really should be wishing for. These are the people who are more likely to blog about you and raise your own profile and generate some trusted, quality links for you.

The second problem was the fragmentation of comments.

Social media has allowed people to pass links around. People save links on delicious, on Friendfeed, Facebook and Twitter. The result of this is that people comment about those links and the web pages associated with them on Facebook, Twitter, et al...  people don’t necessary comment on the original blog any more.

ECHO, Intense Debate, Disqus and a few others have a solution for this. These platforms watch Twitter and other social sites for comments about the blog posts they’re powering the comments for. When someone tweets a response about a blog post then that response is detected and shown below the original blog post.

In effect, these comment communities act as comment search engines and gather back the fragmented responses and associate them back with the original.

Here’s an example; the comments and ‘reactions’ to my latest waffle over at my own blog.  You’ll be able to see that the short discussion it triggered occurred on Twitter and yet it is documented on my blog.

So, without further ado; my whirlwind tour of:

Intense Debate

Intense Debate has improved greatly in the last few months. They’ve gone from frustrating me to pleasing me. All along they had one big advantage. Intense Debate is owned by Automattic. That’s the same company that controls Wordpress. Needless to say the Wordpress integration of Intense Debate is jolly good.

In particular, Intense Debate is the easiest of the comment communities I know of when it comes to dealing with trackbacks. In my experience there’s less risk of trackbacks getting missed by Intense Debate and triggering the ‘old’ Wordpress alert system. This means less risk of  having to bypass your own default comment response GUI in order to (normally) reject the trackback.

Intense Debate also has its own small community of plugins. By tapping, once again, in the community Intense Debate are likely to continue to make improvements.

Against Intense Debate has been their original awkward integration with Automattic. It was not uncommon to come across challenges in migrating all your original comments from the blog into the Intense Debate system.

Intense Debate isn’t as good as tracking the real-time social media responses as ECHO. Intense Debate isn’t a strong a community as Disqus. It is, however, a relatively safe pair of hands these days.

Disqus

I use Disqus on most of my blogs because it’s easy to get set up. It becomes a self-fulfilling circle; as I use Disqus on most of my blogs most of my comment history is on Disqus and I don’t want to fragment that over more platforms than necessary.

Disqus earned my attention by being so very quick out of the gates. Disqus lead the way when it came to Facebook Connect and Twitter account integration. People can easily use their Facebook or Twitter accounts to leave a comment directly on your blog. The easier it is for your readers to comment then the more comments you’ll get.

It’s not just easy to install – it’s easy to see working. These days, if you’re using the right options, you can see tweets about your blog post appearing on the blog post as you watch.

In particular, Disqus now splits out comments and profile. You have a very strong Disqus identity and its all yours to control. If you want to go back and delete a comment you can.  Many blogs don’t simply list Disqus comments in chronological order by apply a smarter filter system so the most meaningful comments appear first and by being a respected Disqus user you’ve a greater chance of jumping to the top.

My main grumble with Disqus as been with spam. They have their own spam filtering tech but I’ve found it is easily bypassed by spammers. I fear I’ve had to block dozens of Indian IP addresses in a last ditch attempt to ban persistent (and brain dead) spammers from blogs.  I’ve checked my email in the morning to find that a single blog has been successfully carpet bombed by a single spammer.

If you’re using Disqus with Wordpress then it’s essential you integrate with Akismet.

ECHO

ECHO is the new name for JS Kit. JS Kit was an early player in the comment community and ECHO was their prestige product. ECHO’s been so successful that the company tends to be known as ECHO these days.

What ECHO did first was grab the fragmented comments left by people discussing blog posts on Twitter. It was ECHO that first showed off the integration of real-time comments elsewhere back on the parent blog.

ECHO is particularly useful when you’ve a static page that you just want to quickly zap into something that you could call “web 2.0”. It’s an easy way to turn a landing page into a conversation enhanced page.

ECHO may well be the best at quickly pulling fragmented comments back to the original posting but they’re also, in my opinion, the weakest community.

Oh; and the SEO?

Let’s put aside the fact that many of these comment communities are becoming more search engine friendly by improving their APIs and falling back to 1990 style noscript backup areas.

Let’s instead focus on the SEO advantages of having a better and more interactive blog.

For example, the more people comment on your blog then the more likely it is that you’ll have people talking about your blog. Where there is talk there are links. I’ve seen blogs link to comments.

In fact, this becomes a circle. If a reader has paused to browse though a bunch of ECHO powered comments on your most recent blog post and they see a new one appear then there’s a chance they’ll want to respond to that. That keeps the discussion going.

You also benefit from the fact that people want to improve their own comment profile. I’m much more likely to comment on your Disqus powered blog because I know my Disqus profile could pick up another “like” vote.

The fact that these comment communities integrate so well with the likes of Twitter and Facebook mean that they’re good at putting comments left on your blog into Twitter and Facebook.  A few years ago an “internet celebrity” might have left a comment on your blog and you’d have to run around to tell everyone you’d scored the comment. Today, with one of these options you’ve a chance that the “internet celebrity’s” comment is also automatically tweeted into their Twitter stream or on their Facebook status stream. You don’t need to run around and do anything – all the celeb’s followers will be able to see you’ve scored the comment.

I’m a big fan of the comment communities. They help my social media efforts and do so in a perfectly natural way. The stronger my community becomes the better the blog does in the search engines.

We’ll see more comment community action in 2010, It’s an area to watch.

Andrew Girdwood is Media Innovations Directory at bigmouthmedia and a guest blogger for Econsultancy. He can be found on Twitter here and Google+ here.

Reader comments (136):

  1. Benin Brown Bronze

    EMarketer at RBT

    8:38PM on 4th January 2010

    Benin Brown

    I am a big big fan of Disqus.  In fact I use it on my site and unless the content is really good I usually won't comment on a site that doesn't use Disqus for precisely the reason that you mentioned-I'd like to have the opportunity of earning points and each comment seems to enhance one's opportunities to build a community around his or her comments.

    That being said, I do have one small gripe but its not a big one and hopefully I get an answer from the folks over at Disqus soon.  The trackback url on my blogger blog for external links seems to have been changed to a Disqus domain instead of my own domain.  This would seem to not bode well on the SEO side.  But just yesterday I noticed some tweets linking to one of my own url's that did show up in the reaction section that Disqus puts beneath the blog comments so maybe its just much ado about nothing.

    SEO-wise, I like JS Kit because of the keyword luv and comment luv plugins but I just couldn't find the plugin that would work for Blogger blogs.  This plugin makes comments on wordpress blogs followable plus automatically allows you to tie your site (keyword luv) to a keyword or in the case of comment luv-commenting on a site that uses comment love automatically gives you a back link to your latest post.

    Thanks for the informative piece, Andrew!

     

  2. Insurance Telemarketing

    1:09AM on 5th January 2010

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    I'm a big fan of Echo, actually. I never really saw that for myself.

  3. Sem India

    7:06AM on 5th January 2010

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    Hello Friend,

    I have strong believe in disqus . I will also use in future .

  4. dhiraj

    9:55AM on 5th January 2010

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    Yes Echo is really nice from SEO point of view also.

  5. LordManley

    1:00PM on 5th January 2010

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    "In the beginning comments on blogs where seen as a win-win scenario. " Where should be were. Sorry, I couldn't help it, please feel free to delete this comment once you have adhered to my pedantry. M

  6. Chris Surovick Bronze

    Internet Marketing at www.collegiateliving.com

    2:31PM on 5th January 2010

    Chris Surovick

    Disqus is a solid base to keep under your belt...good article.

  7. Andrew Girdwood Diamond

    Media Innovations director at bigmouthmedia

    2:34PM on 5th January 2010

    Andrew Girdwood

    @Manley - yeah, I'm awful for that mistake. I'm not able to edit an article once it goes live (no bypassing the Econsultancy editors) but hopefully one of the team will correct it :)

     

    Thanks, good spot.

  8. Chris Lake Staff

    Director of Product Development at Econsultancy

    2:47PM on 5th January 2010

    Chris Lake

    Sorted, good spot, Good Lord.

    Thanks!

    c.

  9. Roger

    12:47PM on 6th January 2010

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    For my two pennyworth - disqus and intense debate comments are as the article says jizzed off page.  Personally if I feel I have something worthwhile to say I wouldn't feed the ego of self important bloggers that use them but don't give me any proper credit for my contribution.  I fail to see how "but they get the profile boost."

    They are pretty though.

  10. Courtenay Pitcher

    8:55PM on 6th January 2010

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    As a blogger about social media, I feel that you are very right that comments will be a growing area to watch this year. Like you say, comments keep the conversation going. They also provide additional insight to the readers and the bloggers. Comments offer a different perspective and put a "face" to the readership.

  11. Eddy Tembilung

    1:55PM on 9th January 2010

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    I think disqus has benefit for blogger as long as blog owner agree to discuss 

  12. Juned

    2:02PM on 9th January 2010

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    Let us discuss, does blog comment only to rise blog page rank

  13. Al Tepper

    8:14AM on 10th January 2010

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    We just rolled out Disqus on http://www.athomemagazine.co.uk for various reasons but its interesting to note that Econsultancy use none of the three ;) Which one would they plump for if they took the plunge?

  14. Custom printing

    1:06PM on 18th January 2010

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    That's a great discussion i like it.

    This information is really helpful for us.

    Thanks for share it.

  15. mujeeb

    11:03PM on 23rd January 2010

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    This blog is created to the lovers of adventure sports and for those who love to see the world's most beautiful and challenging mountains.Dare to climb and enjoy the thrills of alpinism.Dare to climb the challenging mountains of pakistan

  16. SEO Services India

    5:22PM on 1st February 2010

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    thanks to share your views of about search engine technique with all of guys, its more benifitial for all of us, please write more about its

  17. Los Angeles Internet Marketing

    10:15AM on 15th March 2010

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    Discussion is a good way to increase level of thinking and social networking and also it helps to broaden the level o understanding. I like discussions on different aspects and concepts.

  18. Alok Kumar

    1:11PM on 24th March 2010

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    wow on ECHO powered comments. really imazing how it discussed on ECHO powered comments.

  19. Machelle Hamilton

    5:04PM on 24th March 2010

    Avatar-blank-50x50 Disqus has always been my favorite commenting system. The speed of it always amazes me.Disqus is under active development.it is a listen to user feedback.
  20. Andres Garcia

    4:46AM on 13th April 2010

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    Thanks for this post but I am unclear on something. I am researching discuss from a commentators perspective. I would like to engage with some like minded people build awareness of who I am in the industry but would also like to see some benefit for my website. As a commentator does Disqus help my website? Andres Garcia

  21. Hassy

    7:21AM on 16th April 2010

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    This is truely amazing infromation for seo related persons becuase in this topic you have covered all the basic info regarding seo defination.

  22. cara meninggikan badan

    5:33AM on 4th May 2010

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    This works for a certain type of commentator. They might not get the link, not if the blog is using the JavaScript version of the comment community, but they get the profile boost. They get the kudos. They’re encouraged to post a thoughtful comment rather than a “me too” comment.

  23. josh

    5:55AM on 7th May 2010

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    hi .. sorry .. i'm a newbie here.. what is ECHO anyway ?

  24. renda extra

    12:48AM on 17th May 2010

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    Great idea!! I tried it out, and I think it works great. I would like a way to remove the commenter's website from the post. Some are long and don't work well in many of the templates I'm using.

  25. SEOP

    3:55AM on 19th May 2010

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    I actually like disqus because you have full control of all the comments coming in for your blog. But many spammer are actually using to their advantage some of the features of this tool.

  26. FlyBoy Wakesurf

    12:38AM on 29th May 2010

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    I get tons of comments on my <a href="http://flyboywakesurf.com">wakesurf</a> blog, but literally 99% of them are spam. The comment won't even relate to the blog post, or will be riddled with URL's. I wonder if they discourage some of my readers from contributing?

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    4:42AM on 31st May 2010

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    I actually like disqus because you have full control of all the comments coming in for your blog. But many spammer are actually using to their

  28. hitfive

    7:12AM on 31st May 2010

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    I actually like disqus because you have full control of all the comments coming in for your blog. But many spammer are actually using to their

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  30. SEO Professional

    12:54PM on 8th June 2010

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    Handling spammers is a real tough task these days, are there any techniques through which we can stop spammers from making cooment on our blogs.

  31. small business seo

    12:42AM on 10th June 2010

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    SEO can be approached in many different ways.
    I advocate the DIY approach for on-page SEO the outsourcing the off-page seo link building etc.
    What do you think?

  32. Car Games

    3:28PM on 16th June 2010

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    Another great thing about disqus is that it seems people comment more! I used Disqus for a long time and switched back to wordpress only to find that I would loose a lot of conversation! I am needless to say switching back now!

  33. Girl Games

    3:28PM on 16th June 2010

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    I think the Disqus comment system is the best way to follow a conversation.Disqus has ability to import existing comments as well as export comments. I didn't lose any comments when I moved to Disqus.

     

  34. 成人用品

    3:06AM on 24th June 2010

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    I think the Disqus comment system is the best way to follow a conversation.Disqus has ability to import existing comments as well as export comments. I didn't lose any comments when I moved to Disqus.

  35. Video Production Phoenix

    7:19AM on 25th June 2010

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    Switching to do follow may improve but I think big players need to shell out a little or to much cash to stay on top of the game.

  36. Fire Cracker

    6:20AM on 29th June 2010

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    Discussion done through Disqus is very interesting as reader is able find all old and new comments and will be able to grasp new ideas and perceptions of viewers.

  37. Bike Games

    10:47PM on 3rd July 2010

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    Disqus is fantastic. I used to have to beg for comments on most of my blogs until I started using Disqus, I don't know what it is, users love it and find it so much easier to use and we agree with them so it's a win, win!

  38. ABDUL GHANI

    12:09PM on 14th July 2010

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    Great  Disqus comment system is the best way to follow a conversation.Disqus has ability to import existing comments as well as export comments. I didn't lose any comments 

  39. ABDUL QADIR

    3:53AM on 16th July 2010

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    I have strong believe in disqus . I will also use in future .

  40. Hiya

    12:32PM on 26th July 2010

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    ECHO makes complete sense, never even thought of how comment to increase the company's traffic. I will definitely use this technique. thanks

  41. Finance tutor

    3:01PM on 30th July 2010

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    It is clear that comments add and enable the community. Is there a solution for reducing spamy comments while still allowing the discussions. I have a word-press blog and get about 20 unrelated comments 

     

    Sen

  42. Small Business SEO

    9:46PM on 7th August 2010

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    Great article Andrew. I have to say I prefer Disqus over the other two that you noted. It is just a personal preference and nothing against the other two.

  43. Wholesale Folders

    12:09PM on 9th August 2010

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    .Dare to climb and enjoy the thrills of alpinism.Dare to climb the challenging mountains of pakistan

  44. SEO

    8:11AM on 10th August 2010

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    Disqus is getting more and more popular among bloggers but, as you said, without Akismet it becomes a spammers' den. :) PS: or with a strong CAPTCHA like the one you are using here!:)

  45. Abu Dhabi Property

    3:24PM on 10th August 2010

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    Nice info you have here. I hope this will help a lot of people. Keep up the good work...We hope you will visit our blog often as we discuss topics of interest to you.

  46. website design

    6:24AM on 13th August 2010

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    I never used these things but after going through here i am inspired to use this too. I really learned how it works:) Thanks

  47. Pietro Free Articles

    9:01PM on 14th August 2010

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    I think we all fight the same. Seo spam, but problems for our community when closing the forum or deleting the links. Hard to say, how to solve it right.

  48. NBA

    7:23PM on 15th August 2010

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    Intense Debate is been amazing for me and I have no problem in using it.

  49. Norman

    11:23AM on 23rd August 2010

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    What does an effective Internet marketing strategy involve?Comments or not ?
    Identifying your goals – As in any other task, you need to determine what you expect to achieve from the Internet marketing strategy. This is very important since it would determine the approach to be followed in Internet marketing.
    Getting a web presence – via the social media
    Search Engine Optimisation –  People usually do not look at too many results while using a search engine. So, you would want your website to appear high in the page.
    Email marketing
    Online newsletters Publishing articles, blogs or press releases Publicising deals and holding contests via your website

  50. Gary Woodfine

    6:05PM on 23rd August 2010

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    Sadly this win win situation is all too often abused by the small minded members of the community. With a huge plague in comment spam, where people think that leaving a comment of "I like your blog" merits a back link to a porn site, or some radical surgery on the male member. Comment can be a powerful tool if used correctly but sadly they are not.

  51. paris hilton perfume

    11:56AM on 30th August 2010

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    This works for a certain type of commentator. They might not get the link, not if the blog is using the JavaScript version of the comment community, but they get the profile boost. They get the kudos

  52. diet articles

    12:00PM on 8th September 2010

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    This one is ideal for the spammers. im a victim of spamming too and i want to get rid of the nonsense comments that tries to get links. its so irritating.

  53. Business valuation

    2:26PM on 9th September 2010

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    I've not used ECHO so far, never really had the need to as Disqus covers all the bases. However if you are looking to block spam, then the best method i've found is to accept it will happen, look over comments made on your blog properly and delete the 'great post' spam comments from the few comments that actually add to the topic.

  54. Lenny

    5:03AM on 20th September 2010

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    Thanks for stating the three main competing comment communities; Intense Debate, Disqus and the newly rebranded ECHO. I have not used any of them but at least now I know where is the best to use on creating blogs online.

  55. DJ Trouwfeest

    10:08PM on 23rd September 2010

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    I think we all fight the same. Seo spam, but problems for our community when closing the forum or deleting the links. Hard to say, how to solve it right.

    Disqus is getting more and more popular among bloggers but, as you said, without Akismet it becomes a spammers

  56. senthiledp

    10:19AM on 29th September 2010

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    great little article, I'm always busy and never get chance to read most blogs, this was concise and gave me loads of places for further reading so I can focus my time better. Thanks!

  57. lee@ make money online

    11:11PM on 9th October 2010

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    What an excellent idea i will be adding this to my blog and hopefully i will get some well deserved viewers. It is very hard now to get alot of views with everyone using blogs. Hopefully i will stand out from the crowd with this luv app. Thankyou for sharing best of luck witht the blog.

  58. nOteNaTiCz

    6:24PM on 10th October 2010

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    thanks to share your views. This is very important since it would determine the approach to be followed in Internet marketing.

  59. Painel de senha

    2:05AM on 27th October 2010

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    Ah... it's the high risk of keeping all this data in one central location which bugs me a bit I guess - and the demand for scaling a business such as this. I see great great opportunity and prospects for what D is doing, not just for blogs, but also for businesses and products. I just worry if they'd been better off tempering their growth, learn from inputs and then launch v2 with a lot of fixes, and then, when they got it all just where people are craving for it, scale, with all that this entails.

  60. SEO_Planner

    9:41AM on 30th October 2010

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    HI, This is very important since it would determine the approach to be followed in Internet marketing.

  61. redsauce

    10:50AM on 1st November 2010

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    I think blog comments definitely improve the number of link backs to your site, you just have to make sure it is good content.

  62. php Freelance

    6:49AM on 6th November 2010

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    I  would consider Disqus and echo not good one. They require sign up I like open Id system to comment.

  63. Hire php developers

    8:06AM on 10th November 2010

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    I think blog comments are useful for both commentator and also blog owners.Peoples dont like comments that require sign up.So always try to use free comments services with modiration so that we can save our blog from spammers.

    Anyway,thanks for sharing a good article about frre blog comments.

  64. seo singapore

    3:41AM on 13th November 2010

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    Disqus vs CommentLuv which you is better?

  65. Marketing Made Ready

    7:45PM on 19th November 2010

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    I am in the process of starting a blog. But first, I am gathering up information inorder to proceed in the right direction. Thanks for the information you blogged about, it will help me out.

  66. Watches

    7:06PM on 4th December 2010

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    I think it works great idea. i will be adding this to my blog.

  67. Metropolitan Web Services

    12:46PM on 5th December 2010

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    Im a blogger....and I'm a big fan of blogspot. Comments are big help for my site. Thus, it helps my backlinks increase.

  68. matehw

    4:56AM on 6th December 2010

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    I just worry if they'd been better off tempering their growth, learn from inputs and then launch v2 with a lot of fixes, and then, when they got it all just where people are craving for it, scale, with all that this entails.

  69. seo in chennai

    1:08PM on 8th December 2010

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    Are Alexa's traffic rankings accurate? I'm hearing conflicting stories on this.
    I use a site's Alexa ranking to decide whether to advertise or exchange
    links with them.

  70. seo

    5:50PM on 12th December 2010

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    For blog comments, it is a very good seo tool, and the role it is relatively obvious, suggested that we can to try, a reasonable attempt

  71. maintenance

    5:54AM on 16th December 2010

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    The blog owner could see that someone cared enough about the post to comment. The blog owner got some free copy. Someone else was writing for their blog; albeit just a little paragraph or so. It was still content and content was still king. The kindly person leaving the comment got something too. In the old days they got a link back to a site of their

  72. muddassarshah98

    2:00PM on 22nd December 2010

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    I have strong believe in disqus . I will also use in future .THANKS

  73. Seo Agency

    7:59PM on 25th December 2010

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    I've always been curious to know if you can use different url's with Disqus or if you are stuck using the same profile. Also, I've seen some bloggers quite quick to label comments as spam just because I have a link to a site althought the comment itself is on topic and insightful. Some people are just too quick to push the blacklist button.

  74. web marketing firm

    7:12AM on 3rd January 2011

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    Well i just personally like Disqus and i never use others but others will be also important for others i will use it and then share my experience of using it with you all people.

  75. IPINLive

    4:30PM on 4th January 2011

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    On the SEO side of things with disqus, what is your take on the link value in the comments, given that they run using js and don't appear in the page (unless you have installed and configured using the disqus api)?

  76. organic seo srvices

    4:25AM on 12th January 2011

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     I  think blog comments are useful for both commentator and also blog owners.Blog commenting is also good tool for the search engine optimization .

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    This is a useful detailed view of these 3 tools - useful to understand how they compare.  It will allow readers (certainly me!) to make a more informed decision as to which one to use.

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    thank you for sharing

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    Usefull information, thanks

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    Great, tips. I been doing a lot of SEO/SEM in the past and I was pretty sure I know everything about this field but with your article I realized you can still teach new tricks to old dogs. I'll be reading your other posts.

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  83. Rahul Singh

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    here are many “SEO Gurus” that will tell you commenting on blogs can boost your pageranking a

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    I think blog comments are useful for both commentator and also blog owners. its improve PR and drive visitors to your site.

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    Hello Friend,

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    I believe that thru blogging/commenting naturally which is in relevant to the keywords and topic, you can gain backlinks to the site you commented.

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    I wish I could get more comments on my own blog to get discussions going. I notice just a couple of comments get others going, but getting the first comment or two is difficult.

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    Thanks for the great article. I will reference it for future use. Interesting posts as well.

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    Hello, the last test were: Yes, ah, I do not make it a giant heap. In general, I respect most of the information is temporary ... I send it off to its final destination ... where they can be used and archived. However, what I might prefer to remain so than the IT side more.

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    I was curious to know if automatic blog commenting software is frowned upon by google. I have seen some of these services being offered on the net, but if the same content (in this case comments) are being distributed throughout the net, that can't be a good thing.

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    Great article. I was suffering from some confusion but after reading the article i feel relaxed. Thank you so much for such a wonderful article.

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    Great article !

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    We generally tell all our customers to think of commenting on other relevent blogs as a way of showing another blog’s audience how much they know/ how interesting they are. So this new audience will click on the link back to their blog. This is another method of driving traffic to your site and entices people to write really well thought out comments, instead of junk to get ranked higher on search engines…

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    I have to say that You really convinced me to try out disqus. I haven't try yet, but I think I'll give it a chance soon. Thanks for this article.

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    I can see that this particular blog post has rather become cluttered (in terms of the contents section), which is something of a shame.

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  101. Matt Sharp

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    I'm a big fan of Disqus it helps combat unrelated comments.

  102. Jesse

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    Thank you about your opinion. It's very good for implementation of seo method in comments!

  103. Jesse

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    Good article in seo point of view

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    I can see from your blog that these blog communities are important way forward
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    Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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    Of course, one thing you will always look while blog commenting is that the comment is related to the article at hand. You do not want to raise red flags for spamming another article just to improve the optimization of your Internet search engine. You have to actual practice. If the comment is not related to the topic, you will not only get flagged but you will also confuse those who may have a propensity to visit your site. What spam does irritate visitors to view your site and make sure you become something of a pariah in the community of bloggers.

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    This is truely amazing infromation for seo related persons becuase in this topic you have covered all the basic info regarding seo defination.They also provide additional insight to the readers and the bloggers. Comments offer a different perspective and put a "face" to the readership

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    Blog commenting is a method of driving traffic to your site and entices people to write really well thought out comments, instead of junk to get ranked higher on search engines…

  109. angelina@White Hat SEO

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    Blog comment is helpful specially when you comment to related blog as you not only link to it to add on you back links but also through it you can meet those that have interested with the same topic.

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    Sadly this win win situation is all too often abused by the small minded members of the community. With a huge plague in comment spam, where people think that leaving a comment of "I like your blog" merits a back link to a porn site, or some radical surgery on the male member. Comment can be a powerful tool if used correctly but sadly they are not.

    Absolutely right :)

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    I have to say that You really convinced me to try out disqus. I haven't try yet, but I think I'll give it a chance soon. Thanks for this article.

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    I think that this is an error. Google insists in the use of attributes like the NOFOLLOW in all his communiqués, to follow to the letter his councils, the classification of results will belong exclusively to 5 companies

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    Must admit I am sick of rejecting comment spam. Thanks for this post, I now need to have a closer look at comment communities such as Intense Debate, Disqus and ECHO.

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    Thanks for the article. You have explained the benefits of comments so well. Few of the bloggers are thinking to close the comment in order to avoid spam, i refer them to follow you. Instead of closing the comment section then can try disqus or something like that.

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    Comment can be a powerful tool if used correctly but sadly they are not. What spam does irritate visitors to view your site and make sure you become something of a pariah in the community of bloggers.

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    Disqus seems to be integrated in many major news organization blogs and article pages. As a commenter I do not like how sometimes there is no option to switch the url/name combination. This may only be a negative to a few seos who do linkbuilding under multiple client names/url pairs, but if you have a tech blog/seo blog the situation may come up more.

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    We generally tell all our customers to think of commenting on other relevent blogs as a way of showing another blog’s audience how much they know/ how interesting they are. So this new audience will click on the link back to their blog.

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