CommentLuv gives you backlinks, Feedburner Feedsmith steals them

11 Mar

Posted by silkenhut in Wordpress |

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I found this great post from Dexter where he suggests that we should not use the commentluv and feedburner feedsmith plugins together. Actually the reason why was very simple…

How CommentLuv Works?

CommentLuv Plug-in

CommentLuv is a plug-in the will get the title of your last post from your feeds and then add it to your comment when commenting on a blog that has enabled this plug-in. The purpose of this blog is to give backlinks to your latest posts. It’s a great plug-in and I should remind myself to add this to my list of essential plug-ins to add to your wordpress blog.

I better add this so that people won’t get confused…

If you install CommentLuv on your blog, you are doing a favor to your visitors because you will be giving them a free backlink (not the other way around). However, by default, the backlink is no-follow.

How FeedBurner Feedsmith works?

Feedsmith aims to redirect all feed request to feedburner. Basically, when you type silkenhut.com/feed/, it will automatically redirect to feeds.feedburner.com/silkenhut as long as you have this plug-in installed. The purpose of this plug-in is to consolidate all feed request into one place so that feedburner can record your feed subscribers more accurately.

CommentLuv + Feedsmith = Lost of backlinks

The problem here lies when you put together CommentLuv and Feedsmith together. Here’s a short step-by-step on how they work together:

1 Ping/s

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April 3rd, 2008 at 1:35 am
1 [...] Feedburner Feed Smith - Redirects your feeds so that it is being handled by Feedburner. There’s a problem with this if you use it with the CommentLuv plug-in. Read more about it here, feedsmith and commentluv. [...]

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20 Responses

ITrush (15 comments.)

March 11th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
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Nice post Allen, agree, i’d rather have more backlinks.. i’ll deal with the feed stats later. Stumbled!

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Dexter | Techathand.net (63 comments.)

March 11th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
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Nice one.. Properly explained.. Thanks for the link.. I like the pictures
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Pete White (1 comments.)

March 12th, 2008 at 12:22 am
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It’s a hard one as Feedburner is such a useful service but those backlinks are nice. Comment Luv does have its own problems though, I’ve seen a few blogs fall down after installing comment luv as it slows down the commenting process.
Vibr8 (3 comments.)

March 12th, 2008 at 12:23 am
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Good point. I’m a bit confused though. If I may point out: you’re saying

“If you install them both, instead of giving yourself a free backlink, you just gave feedburner a back link…”

But I don’t have to have CommentLuv installed on my own blog in order for it to work on yours, right? I mean, if *you* have CommentLuv and *I* have FeedSmith, and I comment on your site, your CommentLuv will pull the feed from my FeedSmith instead of from my Site.

So I don’t have to have CommentLuv installed myself - did I get it right?

Because in that case, I would say it depends on the amount of commenting you do on other blogs. Also, I haven’t come across too many sites using CommentLuv so far - PLUS, in order for the backlink to count, these sites must have a plugin like DoFollow or Link Love enabled!

So if I understand it correctly, that would reduce the chances of getting backlinks to your own site (not many blogs use CommentLove, and even less use them together with DoFollow).

Maybe I’m completely wrong though
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pregnancy facts (1 comments.)

March 12th, 2008 at 12:53 am
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I’ve never realised that. Thanks for letting us know!

I have just deactivated feedsmith in my blog. You just need to make sure that you change all feed links to feedburner to keep your stats.

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Joni (3 comments.)

March 12th, 2008 at 10:02 am
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You wrote this post better than you think you did. Good job! Thanks for informing us about this.
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SweetandcuddlyRai (1 comments.)

March 12th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
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good thing that i dont use any of those. but glad you tell us. thanks for visiting my site! Godbless
Jaypee (37 comments.)

March 13th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
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Thanks for sharing about this issue. I was never aware of it until now.

In my case, I deactivated FeedBurner Feedsmith because all my RSS links are hard coded (as far as I know) so it means I won’t be losing track of any new RSS subscribers.
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Ederic (3 comments.)

March 14th, 2008 at 2:13 am
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Thanks for taking an effort to explain this. I recently installed CommentLuv — I remember posting about it here last month. I don’t have Feedsmith, though.

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Allen (689 comments.)

March 14th, 2008 at 2:21 am
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@Itrush - Thanks for the stumble! I appreaciate the traffic it sent me.
Allen (689 comments.)

March 14th, 2008 at 2:21 am
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@Dexter - Hi Dexter, I still give the credit to you since you were the one who discovered this.
Greenie (1 comments.)

April 9th, 2008 at 9:22 am
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Likewise I was unaware of the conflict with feedsmith and have deactivated it on my other blog. Now I just have to figure out the best way to keep track of subscribers.

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Allen (689 comments.)

April 9th, 2008 at 10:08 am
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@Greenie - What I did as a workaround for this is to replace all instances of blog.com/feed/ into the feedburner address. ^_^
Digital Products Review (1 comments.)

April 14th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
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You can go into Feedburner and set this redirect so it counts for search engine hits. By default, it doesn’t. It has to do with the type of redirect it uses.
But that was not the point of my comment. Just wanted to let you know that I put your blog on a CommentLuv blog list. Have a great day!

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Richard McLaughlin (2 comments.)

April 17th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
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if you search “This blog uses CommentLuv v1.0 which will try and parse your last blog post, please be patient while it finds it for you” followed by your keywords you will find sites that are related to you and give some CommentLuv. This may see worthless, but it does help you build up a community.

Sending some CommentLuv at you.

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tv on the web (1 comments.)

April 24th, 2008 at 8:42 am
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Hi there. I like commentluv. I think it’s a great tool to gain backlinks and to entice people to leave comments, thus adding value to your blog. thanks for this informative post.

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Allen (689 comments.)

April 29th, 2008 at 9:50 am
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@Digital Products Review - Oh I see. Thanks for the info (I’m going to try it out) and for the link love. I really appreciate it.
Allen (689 comments.)

April 29th, 2008 at 9:51 am
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@Richard McLaughlin - Ah yes, that’s a great idea. In fact, I made a post just for that technique. http://silkenhut.com/using-commentluv-to-gain-backlinks-or-spam-blogs/

Thanks for sharing
Allen (689 comments.)

April 29th, 2008 at 9:52 am
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tv on the web - You are welcome! I’m glad you found this post helpful.
Junii (2 comments.)

May 15th, 2008 at 5:09 am
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Hi very informative article and i think that commentluv is the best around.

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