BREAKING NEWS: We have just confirmed with BloggerLuv founder John Sullivan that BloggerLuv is For Sale due to personal reasons. He is asking $3000 cash.
UPDATE: BloggerLuv has closed down, probably for good.
BloggerLuv counts many exceptional people among their supporters and we are interested in managing and promoting the site should a financial partner come forward. ~ Contact GrowMap using the contact tab above for details. ~
Bloggers have a unique opportunity to create a better world for all. By collaborating with each other we can be a positive influence for good. There are several collaborations I recommend and invite you to join us.
Join BloggerLuv and add your blog to the BloggerLuv Community Blog Listing.
More of you will be familiar with CommentLuv, a WordPress plugin that encourages comments and allows us to get to know each other faster. Read about How CommentLuv Works.
It can be a challenge to find posts on the ComLuv site so you may want to bookmark this collection of CommentLuv posts and videos.
Wow there are a lot more CommentLuv Videos on YouTube now! This one by Just Ask Kim about walking your blog in a ComLuv Circle of Luv is very popular:
Besides CommentLuv, one of the other two best ways to meet bloggers who are interested in collaborating with you and sharing your best content is through our private Secret Blog Club (SBC) blogging collaboration.
UPDATE: The Secret Blog Club forum was lost after the domain it was installed on was hacked. Unfortunately, the owner was never able to recover it and it is gone for good. We have started over collecting information for a new database.
Add Your Blog to Bloggers Promote Your Blog Here.
We have a very impressive number of experienced bloggers including Social Media Expert Kristi Hines of Kikolani, Blogging Advice Expert Andrew Rondeau of WeBuildYourBlog, eBusiness Coach Donna Fontenot aka DazzlinDonna and Power Affiliate Ron Cripps of AffiliateXFiles.
All of our members are very generous with their time and knowledge willing to assist other bloggers at absolutely no cost to you. Although most of our members have been blogging for some time, beginners who are sincere about learning are always welcome.
If you are serious about blogging well, wish to benefit from the experience of others, and want to be the first to hear about many opportunities to make money online, please contact me for an invitation.
I also hope you will join us in BloggerLuv which is a fun Blogging Community where we can interact with each other informally, share tips, see what is happening – or as Stephanie who shares gardening tips and beautiful photographs describes it:
“BloggerLuv is a lounge for active bloggers to connect and trade ideas and where to get what resource.”
BloggerLuv was started by John Sullivan who recently wrote a post about Dealing with Better Spam Comments. I wrote a long comment for that post and want to share it again here. It explains why I believe we need to think carefully about our definition of spam:
I’m sure many reading this probably already know that I am one of the champions for supporting small businesses and welcoming them into our blogs. Since John opened the door I want to explain briefly why I feel the way I do.
Spam originally only referred to automated comments left by bots – not comments written by humans. That said, I consider any comment whether written by a human or not that is NOT about the post it is left in to be spam.
Akismet is a major problem because many people we know who never spam have been flagged as spammers and many bloggers have a box checked that instantly deletes whatever they write in OUR blogs – and everyone else’s. There are posts about that in my blog in the Akismet category.
The only comments and links I recommend we not approve are those that are inappropriate or link to bad neighborhoods (adult content or gambling related). You can also choose to delete links to sales pages, Made for AdSense (MFA) sites or poor quality sites if you wish.
The questions to ask yourself is who does it hurt? Who does it help? Why do I care? I’m sure you’ll make the decision that is best for you.
BLOGGERLUV REVIEWS:
- Rob Sellen – BloggerLuv Faster, Newer, Better and YOURS!
- Blog Jakes – BloggerLuv – A Great Community for Bloggers
- Rob Sellen – Use BloggerLuv & Share the Luv
- Blondish – BloggerLuv Connecting with Bloggers
- Ileane’s Top 5 Reasons to Join BloggerLuv
Have a post about BloggerLuv? Leave a link to it in the comments and I’ll move it up. If you have more than one leave a link to each one.
Gail Gardner
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The CommentLuv plugin definitely helps you to get more blog comments, but does it actually increase the traffic?
Yes, I have tested in the past by going out and commenting on other CommentLuv blogs and my traffic doubled. I need to consistently do it, and now that CommentLuv is being relaunched, I will in the future.
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Thanks for the update ,Gail. I’m looking for a reliable plugin for my upcoming sites, so far commentluv has the greatest benefits to both user and reader. Allows us to engage with fellow bloggers and share links and also allows for users to comment and find some other topics thru posted links that might interest them. Thanks again!
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Hi Nancy,
The problem is that the developer who created CommentLuv had health issues and chose to abandon the plugin. So far, no one has created anything to replace it, and so far it keeps working so we haven’t had to delete it.
But I don’t believe you can register for it anymore. And WordPress is about to make huge changes in 2018, probably April or after. That may affect what plugins we can run.
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Hi
Great share!
With the heavily debated “Google Sandbox Effect,” you can probably forget about your blog generating very much search engine traffic for the first two to four months. If you’re not dedicated as well as persistent, you might like most bloggers, throw in the towel before the first six months is up.
Aside from overcoming the litany of challenges involved with generating traffic for your blog, the other problem involves growing your blog community. Ever visit a blog that has zero or one comment on every post? Can you hear an echo in here?
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When you understand the impact that CL has in regards to SEO, this tool can not be overlooked. I am not saying that it would right or wrong; I will say that the time that it takes to leave a decent comment and actually read a blog post will greatly reduce bounce rate. Why is that important? The search engines penalize you for high bounce rates by lower rankings.
Hi Matt,
That is an interesting point I haven’t seen made before – and you are correct that lower bounce rates are a factor. There may be a trade-off though because CL attracts spammers and they don’t always read or leave decent comments so they spend less time than real readers.
Either way I support CommentLuv because it is beneficial to small businesses and they are the solution to the impending economic crash. More on that in my post CommentLuv Your Way to Business Prosperity.
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CommentLuv is the great boon to bloggers as well as for commentators, happy to see the encouragement here, Tons of Thanks!
[Hi Matthew, Your comments are being stuck in spam by WordPress (Automattic) so you are probably on the worst Akismet blacklist. You may want to contact them to see if they will reconsider and get you off. Use the test link at the top of this Akismet Blacklist post and the link to contact Akismet further down in the post.]
Never heard of bloggerluv.
Commentluv and keywordluv are excellent, though
Creative way to fight spam, indeed!
Hi Nish,
Unfortunately, BloggerLuv is long gone and so is SBC but for DoFollow CommentLuv bloggers I am working on a replacement forum.
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This is a very nice post, to be honest iv’e never heard about this bloggerluv. But commentluv is a great tool to use to attract a lot of readers and to gain more traffics on your site. c And ommentluv plugin is one of the most used plugins of bloggers.
I did not know much about commentluv before now. Thats a helping and “grow and let the others grow” type thing…
And i did not know about bloggerluv.com and never have visited that when it was online, however that kind of places are really worth visiting.
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Closing of bloggerLUV is bad news but Using commentluv is a great things for blogger and commentators. Thanks for sharing awseome links here for more listing
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These plug ins are a must. One could not ignore the latest blogging craze people are into. Upon having these plug-ins, it enables both the blogger and the visitor to have the needed means to have an amazing experience via give and take relationship. Commentluv is on good way on this relationship.
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You have any idea why this site shut down? It seemed like such a great resource.
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There are a few dead links in the article now.
Any chance of an upadte?
I think commentluv is a great WordPress plugin… Shame it’s not used by more people!
Hi Carly,
There isn’t really much of an update that will help because BloggerLuv is dead and hasn’t been replaced and Secret Blog Club is gone and that hasn’t been replaced yet either.
There is great news on the CommentLuv front – I’ll put that in CommentLuv in this reply.
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yep, i personally like commentluv, one of the best plug-ins ever!
What is Bloggerluv? I really like the Commentluv plugin, but I have to say I’ve never heard of Bloggerluv.
Hi Bob,
The question is what WAS BloggerLuv. It was a site where serious bloggers interacted, relaxed and shared tips – kind of like a coffee shop they met at on breaks. Unfortunately it is gone now.
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I love commentluv because it helps meas a blogger…I am sure every blogger love it too…
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He was not really selling, was he?
He could’ve gotten much more than $3000 for commentluv.
Commentluv is great for getting some comments, but you still have to look out for spam, I mean human spam. Automatic spam is already dealt with with GASP. I think it should be common courtesy to read the blog first and comment with something useful. add value.
Then in return you get a backlink, that is a good deal.
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Hi Danny,
BloggerLuv was for sale and is now gone. CommentLuv has never been for sale that I know of and I doubt that Andy would ever sell it.
Your comments are very good which is great. I get so tired trying to decide which weak comments to approve and which to delete as supporting small businesses is a high priority with me.
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Hey Gail,
My bad, I got confused with Bloggerluv and Commentluv.
Wouldn’t you help small businesses if you delete their weak comment, so they learn they should do their work/commenting well or not do it at all.
Although sometimes it looks like you are a charity for small business, you are still running a high quality blog and are in a rolemodel position. So instead of giving away free links to people who probably just skimmed the text (if they looked at it at all) just because you support small business, I think it would be more valuable if you slap their fingers for having a bad habit (weak comments for links). Or else you will reward their bad behavior.
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It difficult to get people the comment on my blogs. CommentLuv is really helping. Wonderful plugin I must say.
I’ve heard of comment luv before, but not blogger luv I have not since I’m new to this whole blogging thing. Thanks for the share!
Amber
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I had no idea he was selling. That is a really good social tool.
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I see that it’s gone by now, Gail – any idea if it was ever transferred to a different domain or just disappeared from the face of the internet?
Ana
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I’ve always deleted comments, but after reading this post and the comments, I’m now a believer. Your right, the real question is, who does it hurt really? No one.
Since I added comment luv to my blog, I noticed a big spike in traffic. It is the best plugin that I ever seen. Well, I appreciate reading the information on your blog. Thankyou
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I love CommentLuv and it is so great to hear about bloggerLuv. I will definitely have to check it out. I also learned something new about Akismet. It’s scary that sometimes you may be using something and don’t realize that it can have a negative impact.
Thanks so much for the information.
Victoria
I do try to earn some revenue from blogging but it is so hard, This comment luv could give my blogs a boost in people commenting and coming back due to comment luv. All i have to do now is figure out how to install it lol. I have been using the default comment platform but Iam going to give this excellent piece of information a go. Thankyou for the advice
I did not know about bloggerLuv, I’m heading over to join..
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Comment luv keeps the content quality high on your blog which is beneficial to someone wanting to comment or not. No-one is going to want to post if the blog is full of irrelevent spam. I’m a big fan of this and will definitely be adding it to my blogs. Thanks
What a great idea to put luv on your blog and reward all your commenters and viewers. Everyone should have this app. Iam going to do the same and use this on my blog and hopefully get somemore views and comments. Maybe make my blog a bit more popular lol thanks for the read best of luck witht the app.
I have installed commentluv and found things have really picked up with the quality of comments left on my blog. Grant
What I really enjoy about being a part of these groups is that I know I can safely browse blogs from within each network and find high-quality content that will benefit me and provide resources that I can refer my readers to. Also you have a very nice site here. Thanks very much for for all the great value.
Thanks,
Michael
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What a good idea luv could make my blog go sky high. I will be adding this great tools to my blog and hopefully bring in a few hits my way, It sounds like it is re-energizing the blogging community and rewarding readers who help add value to blogs. I couldn’t be happier to see it really catching on. Thanks for all the great information!
We need a forum just for us, believe it or not I collaborate with AlliedBloggers and P50 a Google group of bloggers where we email each other for support on a daily/weekly basis. It generates lots of emails but is like a collaborative group.
Anyone can find me DragonBlogger on Skype, I usually have it on when I work from home, so if I am online you can instant message me.
If I had the time and money to invest, I think bloggerluv is worth considering.
I think the $3,000 is what the site could earn from 1 years worth of backlink sales, ad sales, sponsored post sales based on Alexa rank if someone had the time to invest.
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Thanks for the link shouts Gail. 🙂
I am a little late to this post, oh well, sorry about that. 🙁
I think bloggerluv needs John there as much as anything, that site would be a good investment for someone as long as they do things right, change too much as the place could lose it’s appeal.
But for something to seriously build up, that place has big potential. 🙂
The biggest asset is the people there… keep them lot sweet and you would be unlikely to go wrong.
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Hi Rob,
I’m not sure what John is going to do. Lately it sounds more like he isn’t going to sell BloggerLuv (which is why I confirmed it with him by phone before I published the part about it being for sale).
If someone were to buy, it would make sense to keep the people who are there and most likely John would still hang out there too. We’ll have to wait and see what happens.
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Let’s hope all goes well and things work out. 🙂
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Hey I came to know about secret blog club first time.I do agree with your point about Akismet.You have provided here some good information which will be useful for me also.BloggerLuv and CommentLuv are good ways to grow contacts.
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Hi Minnie,
Collaboration is going to be more important than many realize. Those who start now will succeed faster. I am sorry that I had to remove your links; I never link to adult content. While those types of photos may be almost mainstream now we don’t encourage them from here.
My apologies that I have not added an official commenting policy. That is on my to-do list.
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Great post. I’m yet to join BloggerLuv community.
and it’s sad to hear John is selling bloggerluv.
And thanks for the awesome comment about spam.
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Hi Dev,
I suspect that even if a buyer is found that John will still be involved. Why don’t you join our collaborations? There may be opportunities soon and those who are members will hear about them first.
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I totally agree that CommentLuv and BloggerLuv are fantastic ways to grow relationships with other bloggers. Becoming a member of BloggerLuv site has been such an amazing experience. Watching it grow from a handful of people to what it is now has been exciting. You can’t ask for a better group of bloggers that are selflessly sharing their knowledge and promoting others. It’s a blogging family. 🙂
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Hi Melinda,
Are you also a member of our private blog collaboration? If you aren’t please let me know and I’ll send you the link to get in. We don’t publish it online.
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Nice article Gail. I am really hoping we can keep BloggerLuv alive and within our grasp with a financial backer. I have benefitted so much from John and yourself. It is a great network of bloggers and place to communicate with one another, I hope more realize that and take advantage of its benefits.
Hi Karen,
BloggerLuv is growing very quickly so with any luck a way will be found to keep it alive because many bloggers are active there already. Thank you again for deleting all that spam.
I blacklisted a ton of obvious spammers using the WordPress field in conversations and it looks like doing that puts those into SPAM. As long as I can confirm that is the ONLY thing putting them into SPAM that is an improvement. Since yesterday I have 662 in spam and only 108 in pending.
It looks like Andy from CommentLuv and Phil from FeedBlitz are working on a plugin for us.
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Hi, I am also a blogger but I don’t usually earn from it. It is just I want to be “in” to the trend of Internet. Meanwhile, I am posting informative articles related to businesses and crafts. I also agree that many people could earn through blogging but it all depends on the quality of their blog.
Hi,
One reason I recommend bloggers collaborate is because it is the fastest way to improve the quality of their blogs. Have you considered registering your blog on CommentLuv so you can benefit from the additional links and encourage readers where you comment to visit your site?
You can even create CommentLuv default links so that each comment creates two links to different landing pages targeting your preferred anchor text.
I highly recommend that every blogger have a Twitter account and display it on their blog where it can be found easily (ideally on a text search for the word Twitter) and used in blogs like this one. You can get a lot more traffic by using Twitter. It is THE most commonly used Social Network.
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I’m a member of BloggerLuv and I did find good people within the community, and most of my traffic on my personal blog – at the moment – is coming from there, even I’m not that active. It’s kind of sad that John is leaving it for good.
I’m also using commentluv, to reward my readers, well I’m thankful that there are still some who are reading my stuff there LOL. But anyway, I’m very interested with SBC Gail, how can I join by the way?
Regards,
Jason
Hi Jason,
I just sent you an email containing the link to join SBC. When you get in look up OPM Adam Riemer and Power Affiliate Ron Cripps and do start reading me on Murray Newlands Affiliate Marketing Blog, Word of Mouth Marketing and Inbound Marketing too. Those are all good places for you to leave comments to get more visitors to your blog.
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Hello GrowMap,
I pretty much agree with you regarding the spam. The only ones I delete are those that are off topic, or in some cases that looks as if it leads to a malicious site.
I’d be interested in joining the community. I already promote many people work on the various social media sites I’m a member of. I enjoy sharing the great content I’ve encountered with others.
I can relate to what Jarett is talking about, with some sites it can be easier depending on what you’re writing about. However, that won’t stop me writing about what I live; health, fitness, nutrition, my main focus is the natural approach. I’ve been using CommentLuv for a while, installed it when it first came out a few years ago.
I sent you an email via your contact form, I’m interested in being part of the SBC Community.
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Hi Opal,
I sent you an email and I just approved two new members so hopefully you have access to SBC now. Look up Jarrett there; he is hhmedia. He has a multi-author blog in your niche and I have a related blog that I hope to launch soon.
We have a new strategy starting soon that pairs five related blogs that you may be interested in.
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$3,000 seems like a lot of money for that site…Are they generating any income right now?
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Hi AJ,
I believe John published that it currently earns about $300 a month. There is potential for more income especially if someone could find a way to have the search engines index the activity on the main page.
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Why thank you for the generous mention! Apologies for not getting over here sooner but I was off driving half way across the country for a WordPress conference LOL!
SBC looks like something worth looking into and when I find a spare moment to breath from everything else I’m behind on I’ll certainly do that! Anything you’re involved with is bound to be good!
I really haven’t figured out what all the excitement is over BloggerLuv to be honest. I appear to be missing something. I guess I have such a strong dislike for the way forums/groups handle on buddypress that the site layout was a real put-off to me. There’s a great group of people there but many of the same faces I see on quite a few other communities too. For now I make avid use of CommentLuv, ShoutMeLoud’s Tweet Club, Tribe Syndication teams, and social media. After a while it all gets so much to handle that the idea of adding another thing to have to check is overwhelming and just not something I rush to do!
So what’s your secret? How do you keep up with it all??
Kimberly
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Hi Kim,
LOL…How do I keep up with it all? I don’t as some might deduce by the fact that it is 5:32 a.m. and I haven’t been to bed yet. Something eventually has to give – everyone can NOT have their own forum, their own community, and expect us to be everywhere consistently.
Over time we will all end up gravitating to fewer places. I share your dislike of forums (which is how I ended up co-moderating SBC – to organize it so we can get in, find what we need, and get out – which is not what the original intention for that forum was).
As for BloggerLuv, it seems to have a certain appeal as a place for bloggers to unwind and socialize. It has some of the same issues as a forum (activities being too fractured into different places and too hard to find anything specific there), but the ability to see the members fairly easily has been useful. We’ll have to see what happens especially with John wanting to sell it.
I do hope you’ll join SBC because there are huge benefits and no specific time required. Once you look around in it you’ll know what I mean.
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I didn’t know BloggerLuv was for sale. Too bad he decided to sell it, but he did a great job at launching it, I’d say. I wonder if he could sell it for more than $3000, I don’t see why not?
As for CommentLuv, this post might be of interest to some: CommentLuv – A Link Builders Dream Or The Latest Waste of Time?
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Hi Klaus,
The price of anything has more to do with who you know and how much money they have than any quantifiable value. I agree that it could be highly valuable – especially if we can find someone who wants to collaborate on growing it.
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Blogger Luv is a great site, its definitely on the way up!
Hi Matt,
I agree that it is a very successful launch and has huge potential. If I had the cash I’d buy it myself.
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Hi Gail
As you know I have a small very specific niche but I have found as a dofollow, commentluv, keywordluv site I now gets heaps of fellow bloggers from this community spreading the luv on my site.
I started out initially looking for blogs in my niche but weren’t many to find and they weren’t doing what this community is doing.
Learning more and finding that lots of people are interested in my blog who actually blog about other things. It’s just not their passion.
BTW Gail, still want to help with deleting your spam soon as I am well. Off to the doctor this arvo (was trying to avoid that one) as I am no better and it is now worrying my family as it’s been 2 weeks.
Look forward to our Skype chat as soon as I am able.
Patricia Perth Australia
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Hi Patricia,
Don’t worry about the spam; your health is far more important. Take care of yourself and when you feel better let me know and we’ll see about bringing more quality blogs in your niche into the CommentLuv community.
Fortunately, Karen is in GrowMap right now deleting spam very efficiently. She already has it cut in half and under 2,000 left to go.
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Hi Gail,
Though I’m a big fan of Bloggerluv and Commentluv, I think its usefulness depends on the blog niche. For one of my sites, it’s targeted towards health and fitness bloggers, so installing Commentluv has worked out quite well. Many of the people that comment on the site are actual bloggers.
I have some reservations about adding Commentluv to my dietary supplement blog. Admittedly, the blog itself does not generate very many comments especially in proportion to its traffic. At the same time, virtually none of the comments are from other bloggers. Heck, most people that comment don’t even have a Gravatar much less a blog of their own.
For that particular site, I’m reluctant to add Commentluv because of the audience and niche. Commentluv is obviously ideal for blogs that blog about blogging, but how well do you find it works for other niches?
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Hi Jarret,
What you have revealed is something I already knew – there has to be a leader in each niche who identifies quality sites in that niche and explains the benefits of CommentLuv and collaborating to them.
We all know what quality content is so any time we come across a great blogger we need to share what we know and invite them to collaborate with us. We didn’t know about CommentLuv until we either came across it or someone told us and they don’t either – yet.
Rarely do you see a blog that doesn’t have CommentLuv that has a lot of comments. CommentLuv makes it much faster and easier to build a community and that is obvious any time you look at a blog that has it installed.
We have to pro-actively create a CommentLuv community for each niche. We can also search for bloggers in our niche that already use CommentLuv by using the CommentLuv search engine.
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really sounds great,.I am only familiar with commentluv and this is the first time I heard about SBC and bloggerluv,.thanks for imparting the info I’m gonna check, research more and try about this 🙂
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Hi Marie,
I would be happy to answer any questions you have about any of our collaborations. If you’re interested just let me know and I’ll send you the unpublished link to join SBC.
I call them “our” or “mine” even though they have different official owners because we all feel a sense that they are “ours” – or at least that is how I see it.
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Using the information from Gail, Donna, Kristi, and other generous bloggers, I have been able to increase my skills and my readership. BloggerLuv and the Secret Blogger Club are well worth checking out. ComLuv really helps connect you and your readers in a web of lively discussion. It also lets you connect to those you read in the same way.
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Thank you, Stephanie, for sharing a little about how collaborating has benefited you. If you would like to elaborate by sharing the story you told during the contest or linking to that post I’m sure many bloggers reading this would be very interested in what happened for you.
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Wow..I really liked your comment about ‘spam’ … I myself have been identified as a spammer in many sites though I did wrote long thoughtful comments.. The result was then I got frustrated and I will no longer try to comment on those sites.. I think Akismet and similar plugins should revise their policy on commenting.
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Well my experience about spam is that if you write a lot of comment soon or later you will find yourself in askimet blacklist.
And it seems it’s impossible to be removed from that blacklist.
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Hi Alex,
You’re absolutely correct – that IS what happens and why we have disabled Akismet in all of our blogs. We have even temporarily put up Akismet Text pages so we can tell when we have been flagged.
What we really need is a whitelist / blacklist plugin we can control ourselves OR a joint effort blacklist that only those who agree on what spam is can influence.
.-= growmap´s featured blog ..WordPress WhiteList BlackList Plugin Wanted =-.
Welcome Jakes,
Thanks to the spammers, many bloggers think any comment that links to or mentions any business, product or service is spam. Many of the highest quality commentators have been flagged by Akismet as spammers.
The problem with Akismet is it is too easy to get flagged as a spammer by a Newbie and too hard to get unflagged. They could fix that if they chose to but so far they don’t seem to care enough to change.
Join us in our groups and you’ll know whose blogs you are welcome in.
.-= growmap´s featured blog ..DoFollow CommentLuv KeywordLuv Community =-.
Hi Gail! I whole-heartedly agree with your recommendations. My moribund blog has enjoyed a new lease on life, thanks to the boundless love shown by the members of all three communities.
I haven’t been in SBC for long, but your help, in particular, has shown me that it can be a viable place to network, learn, grow and participate. Of course, all the good folks at BloggerLuv made such a happy fuss over my blog that I HAD to get CommentLuv installed to return the favor, LOL!
Kim’s video was awesome, too. I like her ninja methods!
Cheers,
Mitch
.-= Mitchell Allen´s featured blog ..Could Not Find CAPTCHA Token =-.
Welcome Mitch,
If you are excited now wait until you really get going. It is not that challenging to become one of “the” most celebrated blogs in ANY niche when you collaborate and you know the right way to support each other. That is what we share in SBC.
The first thing to do is to make sure you know who you’re trying to reach and how they would search for you. See the post I’ll feature in CommentLuv here for details.
Do not hesitate to ask questions because the answers to every question you ask benefits all those too shy to do it themselves. Did you know that I am willing to add members to chat or Skype so they can get instant answers any time I am online?
That can go a long way to really speeding up your success and eliminating the frustration. We also share what is really worth buying (only a few critical tools and Andrew Rondeau’s Income Blogging Guide Course which even Kikolani and I are taking) and what not to waste money on. Don’t buy ANYTHING before you check out that section or ask us.
For decades “gurus” have been teaching each other that selling how-to is the way to make a living. You can buy and buy and buy but if you can’t implement any of it your money and time are wasted.
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.-= growmap´s featured blog ..Building Traffic Using Anchor Text =-.
Hi Gail, these are excellent recommendations that I also support. I’ve created video tutorials for BloggerLuv and CommentLuv and I plan to be more active in SBC in the coming weeks. In the meantime I continue to show support for the bloggers involved with these networks by retweeting and adding likes to Facebook, StumbleUpon, Amplify and various other link building outlets.
What I really enjoy about being a part of these groups is that I know I can safely browse blogs from within each network and find high-quality content that will benefit me and provide resources that I can refer my readers to. This also help build my reputation and credibility in the blogosphere.
Thanks for getting the word out.
.-= Ileane@Basic Blog Tips´s featured blog ..Matt Cutts Uses WordPress Not Blogger =-.
Hi Ileane,
We really need to start collaborating more closely. If you use Skype or Yahoo, AOL, or MSN Messenger let me know and we’ll connect live.
Please do share links to your videos in this post and anywhere else they fit. I am link-happy and encourage people to think of my blog as they would their own. If you believe the links are useful for my readers share as many as you have.
I am having something of a challenge with spam at the moment. (I’m seeking a WordPress Plugin developer to fix that). If your comment doesn’t go live right away let me know and I’ll get it approved asap. The only reason these comments already appear is that I searched for BloggerLuv hoping most people commenting in this post would mention it. 🙂
You made an excellent point – that our collaborations are a fast way to find others who are generous and welcoming. Bloggers who don’t want us to comment in their blogs don’t usually participate on sites like BloggerLuv and we don’t invite them into SBC forum if we know they are like that.
.-= growmap´s featured blog ..WordPress WhiteList BlackList Plugin Wanted =-.
Have you tried the WordPress-SpamFree plugin? The link is http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/library/wp-spamfree/
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