Blog Comment Tip: Add A CommentLuv Link With No Plugin (sneaky!)
Three things to not forget - Guest bloggers wanted. Top Commenter contest March. $100 Blog Improvement Review Contest.
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First things first - if you’re a daily coder type person, then this will be obvious. However if code is your nemesis (arch enemy), then you may not have known this and find it kinda cool…
Would you like to freak out a fellow blogger who does not have the CommentLuv plugin installed on their blog? Hehehe. I was recently editing my typos on someones blog using their nifty edit comments plugin and noticed the code for my CommentLuv link:
<abbr><em>Dennis Edell´s last blog post..<a href=”http://www.directsaleswebmarketing.com/best-blog-improvement-review-contest-1-winner-100-via-paypal/”>Best “Blog Improvement Review” Contest - 1 Winner - $100 via Paypal</a></abbr></em>
Being one of those that is learning code slowly but surely I asked myself if this would work anywhere HTML works; as you can see, it does:
Dennis Edell´s last blog post..Best “Blog Improvement Review” Contest - 1 Winner - $100 via Paypal
Now imagine the gaze of wonderment and confusion on the blog admins face as he/she realizes they don’t actually have the plugin installed. Muhahahahahahaha!
Of course assuming you’re not a spammer and you don’t want to just tick off bloggers, I advise you try it on ones that already know you 
.
But wait! Since you can change both the beginning test “Dennis Edell´s last blog post..” as well as the link itself, this actually could have practical advantages and uses.
If you really do need/want to drop a link in a comment (which better be worth it), this is a lot cleaner then:
http://www.directsaleswebmarketing.com/best-blog-improvement-review-contest-1-winner-100-via-paypal/
plus it’s a cool alternative to the usual HTML:
<a href=”http://www.ridiculouslylonglink.com”>This Is The Anchor Text</a>
I already thought of one very practical use for myself, and you if you have multiple blogs. I have commentluv on all my blogs, but in order to use it to my advantage while responding to comments, I have to either log in and out or have multiple windows open (in order to see all comments and still respond using commentluv).
Now I can be logged in from blog to blog and simply drop a post link on each blog from another one 
.
Note1: I called this a blog comment tip and it is, but, if you’re not using it as a joke as described in the beginning, be sure to check for a comment policy before dropping a link.
Note2: If you don’t already employ either the CommentLuv or Edit Comments Wordpress plugins, you should seriously consider them.
Neat tip? Do you find it useful?
Dennis
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March 5th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Hey, just thought you might wanna know that your blog looks a bit messed up with Opera.
Dennis Edell Reply:
March 5th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
@Dintz, First, welcome to the community!
Could you give specifics please? I have it open in Opera and can’t see anything wrong?
Alex at PPC-Coach Reply:
March 7th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
check out http://browsershots.org/
Dennis Edell Reply:
March 7th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
@Alex at PPC-Coach,
I looked in Opera itself and saw nothing wrong.
Alex at PPC-Coach Reply:
March 7th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
@Dennis Edell,
Yea, but the display may differ between versions…
Michael Reply:
June 10th, 2009 at 3:14 am
@Dennis Edell, maybe its just messing up before but are already repaired when you view it lately.
March 5th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
You kind of lost me here but let me see if I have this right.
If you are logged in, your latest post doesn’t show. Since it is your own blog it doesn’t matter. People reading will already be on you blog. However with this technique you could post the latest post from another blog.
Just tested it on my site with a sample comment. I cut and pasted your code above and your latest post and even the little heart showed up.
Now I can tell the world about all your latest and greatest posts. Everyone should do this, we can all promote Dennis’ latest posts.
I guess you could also post 10 links in your comment and the blog owner would blame it on comment luv. Now that’s devious.
Ned Carey´s last blog post..1099s Are Due! Have You Sent Yours Out?
Dennis Edell Reply:
March 5th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
@Ned Carey,
However with this technique you could post the latest post from another blog.
Yep!
Everyone should do this, we can all promote Dennis’ latest posts.
Woohoo! I’d hope though people would know I meant their own link. LOL
I guess you could also post 10 links in your comment and the blog owner would blame it on comment luv. Now that’s devious.
Until they realized there was no box around the links like with the actual commentluv link…assuming they ever realized it.
March 5th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Still holding off on putting CommentLuv on my personal blog as a test, but the redesign is almost done so it’s just days away (fingers crossed!)
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Dennis Edell Reply:
March 5th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
@Matty Byloos,
Don’t forget to add subscribe-to-comments also. You’ll see them escalate big time.
Ben Pei Reply:
March 8th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
@Dennis Edell, Yeah Matty. Subscribe comment option is rather important. CommentLuv is just a reward for your commentators. I believe?
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March 5th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Interesting catch, Dennis. I’ve never gone back in to edit one of my comments, but I just might have to try one of these days to see if I see the HTML code myself. Good one.
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Dennis Edell Reply:
March 5th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
@Mitch,
Oh it’s there. If you reply to this, just hit the edit button afterward, copy it once and stick it into a notepad file for easy reference.
I know you have multiple blogs also, so it might be useful in the same way as me.
(Of course on your next comment my commentluv will fail) LOL
Mitch Reply:
March 5th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
@Dennis Edell, You know, I’m wondering if some of our comments would then end up in spam filters because of the addition of the link. I have come across some people who never look into their spam filters.
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Ned Carey Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 12:05 am
@Mitch wrote:
>I have come across some people who never look into their spam filters
I’ll give you guys a good reason to check you spam filters.I checked mine on a new blog. The comment was exactly they type Mitch just spoke of in a recent post. Generic enough so that it is hard to tell if it is spam.
I clicked through to the site and found an article of interest to me about raising money for private ventures. The site was a splog but the article came from eZinearticles and I contacted the author. I am going to use some of his content on my site and we may do business together to fund my real estate deals.
So taking the time to check my spam filter and click through to a site has paid off in a business contact that could become quite valuable.
If you are an entrepreneur you never know where the next opportunity will come from.
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Mitch Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 12:13 am
@Ned Carey, That’s a good point, Ned, and thanks for the kudos. I always look at the spam in my folder because sometimes it moves comments there because it either doesn’t like the names (that’s one reason against “fake names”, which we talked about earlier), or because there’s a link within the email that someone might legitimately want you to see.
Of course, if you used Mailwasher like I do, that helps figure some of these bad comments out also.
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Dennis Edell Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
@Ned Carey & Mitch -
I’m a big advocate for checking the filter for the reason Mitch gave…Akismet does muck up once in a while.
Very good point too Ned, and congrats on the contact!
Dennis Edell Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
@Mitch, There is that, yea. But you run that risk dropping any link in a comment. If it’s a joke, just let it go. If it’s still a legit link, just notify the blogger as you normally would.
Mitch Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
@Dennis Edell, True; just have to hope people remember to look at their spam filters. You wouldn’t believe the stuff I’ve found in there that’s legit.
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Dennis Edell Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
@Mitch, Yep, several per week for me.
Ben Pei Reply:
March 8th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
@Mitch, Definitely Mitch. Askimet is quite sensitive about this. Well not many people check their spam I guess, unless they get alot of that problem daily.
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March 6th, 2009 at 12:55 am
Then again, if you really wanted them to scratch their head you would change the name and link to point to a completely different blog?
Sire´s last blog post..Punishing Those Who Do Not Adhere To The Comment Policy
Dennis Edell Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
@Sire, I knew I could count on you to be extra weird about it.
Sire Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
@Dennis Edell, I’m glad that I haven’t disappointed you mate.
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March 6th, 2009 at 3:37 am
That’s a pretty nice tip, though not all blogs allow links (or html for that matter) and adding them manually is often a good way to get your comment flagged as spam or held for manual approval.
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Dennis Edell Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
@fuzion, Very true. I made sure to post when to and when not to do it.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:44 am
nice idea Dennis but the heart will only show if the blog has commentluv installed because the css and js that is used to display it comes only with the plugin. Good work getting your head into the html code though!
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Dennis Edell Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
@Andy Bailey,
Hmm, does the heart run the link too? Or just the access to the extra info it gives…
Sire Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
@Dennis Edell, Perhaps if you copy the heart and store it somewhere you can include it at the end of the link to really give them the heebie jeebies.
Sire´s last blog post..Punishing Those Who Do Not Adhere To The Comment Policy
Mitch Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
@Sire, You mean like that little funny face I pointed out on your blog?
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Sire Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
@Mitch, Funny face? My blog? Your not talking about my video now are you? lol
Sire´s last blog post..Punishing Those Who Do Not Adhere To The Comment Policy
Mitch Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
@Sire, No, remember, I sent it to you, and you said you’d never noticed it before. Here’s a link to it, but look at the very top left, because it’s tinier than on your blog:
http://stats.wordpress.com/g.gif?host=wassupblog.com&rand=0.6320523037826089&blog=4468381&v=ext&post=0&ref=
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Dennis Edell Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
@Mitch, Holy crap that’s tiny.
Mitch Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
@Dennis Edell, It’s bigger than that on his site, and my eyes were drawn right to it. Thing is, I’ve seen it on other sites also, so I thought he’d put it there on purpose. You can see it better in this image from Sire’s last blog post; you’ll know where it is, if you go to the site, but the person who’s commenting: http://www.imjustsharing.com/face01.jpg
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Sire Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
@Mitch, Now I remember. Don’t know how it get’s there. There is one possibility though, it may be an image left by the Statcounter code when I set it to invisible. Just a hunch.
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Alex at PPC-Coach Reply:
March 7th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
@Sire, It’s an image used to track page impressions by the wordpress stats. Each time that image loads it adds one pageview to its counter.
Sire Reply:
March 7th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
@Alex at PPC-Coach, Thanks Alex, I knew it had to be there for a reason.
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Dennis Edell Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
@Sire, As far as I know it does copy the heart. I haven’t tried it yet on non commentluv blogs and wouldn’t know how to do it.
Sire Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
@Dennis Edell, Well then, I think you should do something about that Dennis.
Sire´s last blog post..Punishing Those Who Do Not Adhere To The Comment Policy
Dennis Edell Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
@Sire, I’m waiting for confirmation on something from Andy first.
March 6th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Great Observation Dennis. This will work great if we use it on blogs which does not have comment luv. But Is this not illegal to use on comment luv less blogs? But there is something that I too observed. We can make the link do follow. But its illegal I won’t do it. Any way thanks for the mention Dennis
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Dennis Edell Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
@Harish,
After reading Andy’s comment above you, I may have been wrong. I’m waiting on confirmation. However, this is also why I posted when to do it and when not to, so to avoid really ticking off bloggers.
As for making it do follow, yea I would never advise that, you may really tick off even your friends if they catch it.
Harish Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
@Dennis Edell, Ya probably this may be a cheating, on whatever blog it may be..
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March 6th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Thanks Dennis, I’ll have to give it a try at one of my blogs
Dennis Edell Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
@Heather, If you try it on a blog without commentluv, let me know. According to Andy above, it may not work.
March 6th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Tried the code but couldn’t get the image to appear, or im missing something, which is probably the case.
Dennis Edell Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
@khaled, What image? The whole link or the heart?
March 6th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Great tip! I think blogs should also include Keywordluv
Mitch Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
@chicago hospital, Uh oh, didn’t read comment policy! lol
Mitch´s last blog post..Infolinks
Dennis Edell Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
@chicago hospital, LOL Mitch is correct, please include a first name or one-word (non keyword) nickname before or after “chicago hospital”.
Aside from that, welcome to the community and thanks for the input!
Personally speaking, I have issues with keywordluv, but some like it.
March 6th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
That would be a good way to show another blogger an example of what CommentLuv would look like on their site, great to add to posts on sites without CommentLuv asking about how to increase commenting/community on their site.
~ Kristi
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Dennis Edell Reply:
March 6th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
@Kikolani,
Now there’s a good idea, thanks Kristi!
March 7th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
We are going Do Follow and with Comment Luv with our ongoing upgrade so no need to try this one. I know I would have freaked if I had seen a CL link appear on my blog and I didn’t have the plugin in use.
While I admire your cleverness, it is going to cause some people to waste time trying to figure out what is going on. I am no fan of people wasting my time and resources.
Dennis Edell Reply:
March 7th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
@gwen, I have commentluv on all 3 blogs, and will still find it very useful when commenting between them.
I know what you mean. I did make it clear that if anyone were to use it in a joking manner, to do it to a friend only. I doubt many will use it like that at all though.
March 7th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I did not know this, very cool!
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Dennis Edell Reply:
March 7th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
@JR @ Internet Marketing Strate,
Just be careful. LOL
March 7th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Sweet little tidbit man - I think I’ll stick with CommentLuv though, they’ve pretty much perfected the process.
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Dennis Edell Reply:
March 7th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
@Elijah, It is commentluv, this is just another way to use the link.
March 8th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Wow wow tech geek Dennis at work! LOL thanks for sharing this little trick.
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Dennis Edell Reply:
March 9th, 2009 at 6:17 am
@Ben Pei,
LOL A tech geek I am not, but thanks man.
March 12th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Im new in this job, a blog commenter.. I read very carefully the blog and gain ideas for me to comment… I find it nice, but slightly boring.. but i enjoy it because i really gain knowledge and information through this..
Dennis Edell Reply:
March 13th, 2009 at 9:11 am
@Robert-doing business in the Philippines, Welcome to the community!
I’m happy to see more people getting into it. It can be boring as you say, but definitely worth it in the end.
I hope to see you around more often, but in the future please include a first name in the name field above like I have changed it.
March 28th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Lol. Very sneaky, the heart puts it over the top. Definitely wouldn’t try it on someone you don’t know. Some people might get a little upset.
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April 23rd, 2009 at 1:56 am
very interesting i do feel as if many do use these tactics but no matter what the blog owner does i always use my name instead of the keyword because i don’t want to give the impression i’m a spammer
i think it would definitely bother many that do try to take advantage of the commentluv feature as its their way of cheating the seo process
August 13th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Uhh, that is a quite sneaky trick =
I installed commentluv on my blog and like to reward my commentators for the good comments that they leave
I do not want to be encouraging spam machines into working so that’s why i think that commentluv is one of the best plugins out there
October 12th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Keyword love along with comment luv r a wonderful options to add to your blog. It gives readers incentive to add relevant comments by being rewarded with a backlink.gives users motivation to post comments. Yet, content is very important to keep them coming back. In my opinion keywordluv is especially interesting as a tool to draw attention to a relatively new blog.Also noting to someone who commented. Nofollow Blogs are still useful as they still count as a link. They also genarate traffic.comment luv is also not less fasccinating
Dennis Edell Reply:
October 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
@jeni@watch movies online,
Hey Jeni, sorry it took so long to reply. Welcome to our little community; hope to see you ’round more often!