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Time is our most precious resource. All bloggers and business owners wish they had more of it and continually seek ways to accomplish more each day.

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KeywordLuv and CommentLuv are effective ways to make every comment we write or receive provide far more benefits.

I strongly recommend bloggers join the do follow movement and install the CommentLuv and KeywordLuv plugins.

We and many of our favorite bloggers are focusing more and more of our time and efforts exclusively in dofollow blogs. The CommentLuv community is especially strong and readers can easily see CommentLuv featured posts. They may not be aware that installing CommentLuv and registering your site allows you to suggest one of your last ten posts and in the CommentLuv Premium up to five of your top pages or posts.

The benefits of using KeywordLuv are not as obvious to many
so I want to spell them out and explain exactly
why I so strongly recommend using it.

First you need to clearly understand what anchor text is and why it is so important to you.

Anchor text is simply the words used in the actual link that tell the search engines what the page the link points to is about.

Many bloggers are NOT using anchor text effectively or do not even know what phrases are important to them. There is nothing more important to your getting more traffic from the search engines than clearly targeting your best anchor text. Read my building traffic post for how to do this.

BENEFITS OF KEYWORDLUV:

  1. Most bloggers and blog readers dislike keywords in the name field instead of a name. The reason commentators do that is because without KeywordLuv whatever is in the Name field is what is used as anchor text – and that is NOT effective. Installing KeywordLuv fixes that issue by allowing commentators to separate their name from the keywords.
  2. KeywordLuv allows business owners and bloggers to select their own anchor text and pair it with the most targeted landing page.
  3. Bloggers can more clearly understand what their commentators do and what their major interests are based on the keywords they use.
  4. When we blog about our regular commentators we can use the anchor text and links they shared to ensure we are providing them with maximum benefits.

KeywordLuv allows us all to combine commenting and SEO efforts so that we can interact more frequently, strengthen our blogging community relationships and make our sites easier to find in the search engines which will increase our traffic, subscribers and potentially our incomes.

HOW TO USE KEYWORDLUV:

KeywordLuv is simple to use. Instead of putting your name or keywords into the Name field of a comment, use YourName @ Your Keywords.

Here are some examples so everyone is clear on the idea:

Notice that only the keyword phrase is linked and that is exactly what your comment name field will look like too. You can vary the anchor text you choose.

For maximum benefit choose specific pages or posts optimized for each phrase and link that specific page/post to that specific keyword phrase.

You will not end up with enough incoming links to any one page if you do not send specific keyword phrases to specific pages/posts. You can maximize the effectiveness of what you write by optimizing a page specifically for each keyword phrase – especially if you are offering services or products.

That involves good timing in blogs using CommentLuv so read on for how to change your landing page to match your keyword phrase. When you register your site at CommentLuv you entered your URL. For CommentLuv to work you must enter it into the URL field EXACTLY as you registered it including using or not using the www and including or not including the trailing slash / at the end. You may want to copy and paste it somewhere so you can paste it back in later.

If you don’t see your last ten posts in CommentLuv the most likely cause is the URL you entered is not exactly how you registered it.

To link your selected anchor text to a page different than the one you registered with CommentLuv, fill in your comment as usual, select the CommentLuv post you wish to feature and then do this:

Just before you submit the comment, paste the URL of your preferred post/page into the URL field and immediately submit the comment.

It takes CommentLuv some time to realize the URL field has changed. If you forget or take too long you will lose the CommentLuv featured post you selected. If that happens just paste your registered URL back into the Website URL field and click into the body of the comment. That will prompt CommentLuv to find your last ten posts again. Select the one you want, and then change the URL again and immediately submit the comment.

By installing KeywordLuv you allow business and blog owners to help themselves to generate more traffic and more sales.

Some will notice that I keep comments most bloggers would summarily delete. I do this because I know that businesses are in dire economic condition and it is essential that small and online businesses survive and even thrive in spite of the current economic climate. I encourage my fellow bloggers to be forgiving of those who are new and haven’t learned to write excellent comments yet. Is it not better to educate them and even the offshore SEO companies they hire so they can call learn? Many businesses do not have the time or skills needed to leave their own comments and may not know the difference between spam and adding to the conversation. We can educate them and make the world a better place. For those bloggers willing to do more I ask that you participate in my new BizLuv MEME and find out how you can Support Your Favorite Businesses and benefit your own blog at the same time.

Note that not all blogs using CommentLuv or KeywordLuv are Do Follow.

I suspect that many assume they are and I personally find it disingenuous to use  these plugins that are so connected to the dofollow community and make them nofollow. For this reason I choose not to include nofollowed KeywordLuv sites in my KeywordLuv Twitter List. CommentLuv blogs are included on my DoFollow Twitter List. Would anyone prefer that I create a DoFollow CommentLuv List?

DOES DOFOLLOW NEGATIVELY AFFECT PAGE RANK?

It is possible but I have not seen any definitive evidence that it does. LATEST: In the last PageRank update, this blog was dropped from PR4 to PR3 while Kikolani with a similar amount of traffic was raised to PR5. Here are several reasons that this blog is more likely to be penalized by Google than other DoFollow blogs:

  1. I frequently and publicly call Google to task because Google IS Evil.
  2. GrowMap outed Akismet for censoring our best commentators, would not back down when Automattic objected to what we wrote about Akismet, and now offer this Akismet alternative.
  3. Comments that many bloggers would delete are approved here at GrowMap because we know the importance of anchor text for small businesses. We also know that link builders are people too – and often they are bloggers, affiliate marketers, or supporting small businesses.

Even if we were not manually G-slapped for #1 or #2 (and that DOES happen – see what happened to Ron Cripp’s traffic from G when he published a post on how article marketing using completely original content can still work after the Google Panda Farmer update – #3 could definitely be the cause. We DO have links that G would not like.

Each of us has a choice to make. Will we bow down and lick G’s boots or will we do what is right and support each other?

I for one will not bow to their pressures because I know where that road leads. Maybe today you will still have traffic but tomorrow they will want something else from you. Bowing to tyranny never works in the long run. IMPORTANT: I am NOT recommending that other bloggers publicly defy Google or write posts criticizing them – especially if your business income depends on traffic from them for now. I AM recommending that you quietly support each other and build links and especially recommend each other directly in your blogs and across social networks. Read the ongoing Dofollow debate on the link immediately above and Dan’s DoFollow Versus NoFollow post for insights including comments from me and examples of posts here and on popular dofollow sites that have strong pageranks in spite of tons of outgoing links. This indicates that if you quietly allow at least some of your readers links – maybe less than I do here – that you are not very likely to be penalized with lower pagerank. That said, PageRank is not nearly as important as traffic. G can take away ALL your pagerank and still send you just as many visitors. There are many blogs that are PR0 (usually because they inadvertently broke a rule – often by using text link ads or selling text links without no-following them) that have just as much traffic from G after their PR drop than they had before. Eventually, the new Chrome block data can be used as an excuse to remove any site from search engine indexes and claim it is “what the users wanted”. Just as Akismet censors bloggers’ comments, that data will censor our sites right out of the serps. See my post on CrowdSourcing failures for more details.

WHERE TO GET THE PLUGINS:

  • DoFollow plugin – We were using the Semio Logic Do Follow plugin V4.0 but they have removed the page for it from the Internet and their Twitter account has been inactive since Aug 17, 2010. We now use CommentLuv Premium which provides DoFollow as one of the eight built-in plugins. If you use the free version of CommentLuv try one of the others listed on Andy Beard’s DoFollow Plugins List.
  • KeywordLuv plugin – I claimed @KeywordLuv11110 to make the KeywordLuv plugin and this information post easy to find
  • CommentLuv plugin | How to use CommentLuv with IntenseDebate
  • How to tell if your Theme is compatible and how to use KeywordLuv compatibility mode if it isn’t.

I am currently compiling lists of Keyword Love enabled blogs, keywordluv lists and will add keyword luv tools if I find any.

Why should you link to bloggers who use KeywordLuv? Because they understand the importance of anchor text and are highly likely to add high quality links to your sites!

KEYWORDLUV LISTS:

  • Dofollow.info Do follow blogs tagged as having KeywordLuv installed
  • BlogAbout Everything KeywordLuv list (Updated Feb 12, 2010)
  • AdvancedSEO KeywordLuv Search Engine

Please leave links to any additional Keyword Luv lists or tools you know of in the comments of this post. Thank you.

KEYWORD LUV BLOGS BY NICHE:

Use these lists to find KeywordLuv enabled blogs in your niche. I highly recommend going beyond exchanging comments to linking to and writing about each other’s sites.

Anchor text is so very important that if you appear in the list below I will edit yours on request. Just leave a comment in this post.

ACCOUNTING

SEO for Accountants (NetAccountant) offers Web Design, PPC, SEO, Social Media and Blogging services specifically for accounting sites. UK & US experience.

AFFILIATE MARKETING

AffiliateXFiles (Twitter) Affiliate Marketing Advice Murray Newlands (Twitter) Affiliate Marketing, Social Media Marketing

BLOGGING TIPS / SOCIAL MEDIA

Kikolani (Twitter) The Art of Blogging for Blogging Tips and Social Media Marketing
WassupBlog (AussieSire) Blogging Tips and Making Money Blogging
Andrew Rondeau (Twitter) How to Build a Blog Download your free blogging guide
Nice Blogger (BituMihau) Blogging Best Practices
Another Blogger (AnotherBlogger) Blogging Tips including How to Import Blogger Blogs to WordPress

BUSINESS COACHING

Just Ask Kim (AskKim) Business Coach and Facebook Expert
Donna Fontonet (DonnaFontenot) Business Coaching
Janet Callaway (JanetCallaway) MLM Networking Coach

INTERNET MARKETING

GrowMap – this site
JR’s Internet Marketing Strategies (IMStrategies)
Don Power‘s Local Business Internet Marketing and Local Social Media Marketing
Dennis Edell Direct Sales Marketing I Do Web Marketing
ExtremeEzine Internet Marketing Blog (Brian D. Hawkins aka Extreme Ezine)
Extreme John (Twitter) Business Reviews and Blogging Tips
Internet Marketing for Mommies (momtohanna464652) Making Money with Squidoo Lens – Get a Squidoo Lens Review
AriWriter Online Media Strategies (Ari Herzog) Why Ari Supports Dofollow, KeywordLuv and CommentLuv
Gold Paved Road SEO Tips, Backlink Techniques, Keyword Optimization and working to make money online
Josh Rimer YouTube Marketing Blog (JoshRimer424215)
Steve Scott Create the Internet Lifestyle Blog (SteveScott1)
Jym Tarrant MLM Lead Generation (@JymTarrant525255)
Attraction Marketing (@MavisNong) – sorry Mavis; I didn’t realize you were missing here until I compared my list to the new CommentLuv Blog list Ana Hoffman created for @WebTrafficCafe
Profit on Knowledge Internet Marketing Blog (@ProfitKnowledge)
Marketing Matters Marketing Content, Editing and Proofreading (@MarianneWorley)

COMPUTER FINANCING:

Computer Financing Today – I thought some of my readers might be interested to know that Creative_Ace11119‘s dofollow blog offers 5.99% computer financing with no credit checks. CJ is working on getting KeywordLuv working as I type this.

CONSUMER INFO and INSURANCE

EarthNEnergy Alternative Energy blog Fat Loss 4 Idiots Weight Loss Advice blog Day Trading Robots Day Trading Top Rated Auto Insurance Companies: Cheapest Auto Insurance Rates and Auto Insurance by State

DOFOLLOW LISTS

Blog about Do Follow Blogs

FISHING

Australia Based Mackay Fishing Charters

FREELANCE WRITERS and PRODUCT REVIEWERS

Creative Ace (Creative_Ace11119) Freelance Writing and Online Technical Writing
Donna Anderson (SheWritesALot) Freelance Writer Specializing in SEO Copywriting

GARDENING

Stephanie Suesan Smith (lambdakennels1) Master Gardener sharing gardening tips
Where to Buy Bonsai (No Twitter?)

GOLF

NoBogies Golf Blog and Golf Store with comprehensive posts on the Rules of Golf
Putting Mat Improving Your Golf Putting Confirmed Do Follow CommentLuv KeywordLuv

HOME IMPROVEMENT / REAL ESTATE

Good Millwork Crown Moldings, Baseboards and Chair Rail and Exterior Shutters, Wood Siding and other Millwork. They have access to rare woods including cypress and genuine mahogany and manufacture mahogany moldings, door and window trim and offer free downloadable CAD Drawings.
Tampa Florida Real Estate Blog (DannyinTampa)
Gulf Coast Beach Team Alabama Gulf Coast Real Estate (GulfShoresLife)
Las Vegas Real Estate
Tulsa Real Estate Blog for Tulsa Oklahoma Homes for Sale New Homes Section New Home Builder Ads
Team Aguilar San Diego Real Estate (TeamAguilar)
San Diego Real Estate Blog (LaJollaHomesPro151516) Use their San Diego MLS to search for San Diego Homes
Commercial Real Estate Underground (CREUnderground)

MUSIC

Remergence Rembeatz Electronica Duo (JJ_Remergence37370) and (Rembeatz) Blazing Minds Music Blog (BlazingMinds6464)

PHOTOGRAPHY and GRAPHIC ARTS

Matt McGuire Sacramento Photography
Stephanie Suesan Smith (icphotos1) Photography Blog

SHOPPING, WEDDINGS and GIFTS

ExecGiftsBlog Associated with Executive Gift Shoppe’s Personalized Gifts Store and featuring a Wedding Store
NoLimit Consumer Reviews and Ratings
Baby Shower Moments Baby Shower Blog
Valentine’s Day Chocolate Truffles
Dry Erase Calendar Boards blog

TECHNOLOGY, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE

Software Critics Software Reviews (MathDelane)

VACATION TRAVEL

CaribbeanPrincessCruise Cruise Line Specials

VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS

Social Media Virtual Assistant (Twitter @mmangen) Offering Social Media Marketing Services

WEB DEVELOPMENT

Activo Web Development Blog team of Web Designers dedicated to KeywordLuv
Wayne John Global Web Development (WayneJohn)

WEIGHT LOSS BLOGS

Dr. Kal‘s Weight Loss Tips Blog

WOODWORKING

Stephanie Suesan Smith (@icwoodworking) WoodWorking Blog

GENERAL

Known dofollow KeywordLuv enabled blogs in all other niches (more sections to be added as needed):
Best Wine Club
The Blog About Everything and their KeywordLuv list (Updated Aug 28, 2011)

Know of a Do Follow KeywordLuv blog missing from the above list? Let me know in the comments. If it is yours please also include your best anchor text phrases and landing pages and fill in the Twitter field too.

Posts like this take an extremely long time to compile and create. There are many more KeywordLuv enabled blogs to be added from Kikolani’s Dofollow.info Do follow blogs tagged as having KeywordLuv installed and to be found by searching.

We collectively need to decide on the best solution for compiling KeywordLuv blogs by niche. Please volunteer or leave suggestions in the comments. Thank you.

I am asking my readers to contribute to this project by adding your favorite KeywordLuv enabled blogs in the comments of this post. Please provide desired anchor text and landing pages. As time allows I WILL move them into the body of this post to provide you with stronger editorial links. Also do please report any blogs appearing on this list that are no longer dofollow or do not have CommentLuv and KeywordLuv installed by leaving the information in the comments of this post or using the contact form on this blog.

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  2. Thanks! I’ve never used any keywords or anchors yet but I’ll give it a try. How long does it usually take to notice the effect?

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  6. Thank you very much, Gail!!
    It´s getting harder and harder to navigate through SEO and ranking our sites, but it’s really useful if we help each other.
    Thanks again!

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    • Hi Imran,

      Unfortunately, KeywordLuv is no longer recommended. But CommentLuv does still work. Even though Andy Bailey is not around to update it, I spoke with the plugin text team and they said CommentLuv should be fine as it is well-coded and should work with Gutenberg (although I won’t ever use it if I can help it – there is a Classic Press plugin for now AND also a Classic Press fork.

      Every WordPress user needs to read about the upcoming HUGE CHANGE that is Gutenberg. Do NOT accept that update before you read what might break!
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  8. I tried this particular one with my Your Keywords “This site uses KeywordLuv” but I kept seeing post from different niche other than the ones in my niche, why?

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  9. Well informed, The article which you have shared is useful like how we can increase back-links and keywordluv & commentluv will be helpful for link-building

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  10. Since I installed KeyWordLuv (and CommentLuv), the number of valuable comments has rocketed so very usefull websites.now and you’ll start seeing some increase in numbers.

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  12. There is nothing you can do about it, you can’t beat spammers.
    Even I do not see any fault of even spammers, even google wants to rank websites which have high ammount of backlinks so what any one can do, they do such thing to rank.

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  14. Well i normally uncheck the commentluv box when commenting… is it something bad? One of my friend who is a pro blogger says you should actually check the box but since i don’t know how it benefits me would love to hear more about it from you.

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  15. I am very enjoyed for this blog. Its an informative topic. It help me very much to solve some problems. Its opportunity are so fantastic and working style so speedy. I think it may be help all of you. Thanks.

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  16. I like your article ,please can you teach me more about keywordluv Top facts about Comcast you really don’t-know

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  17. I cannot believe how much information you can pack into a post. I experienced to learn it twice to ensure I understood everything.

    I actually is really glad that I “found” you as you are truly among the finest people I know out there supporting the small businesses and keeping us well informed of what is going on and how to best drive traffic to our sites.

    I did fix the plugin issue with the one site and now my sites are CommentLuv, DoFollow, and KeywordLuv friendly. I have discovered that my traffic has increased tenfold since the additions of such plugins. If in uncertainty about using them, ask anyone on that list above how we feel about them
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    • Hi Alrin,

      I suspect most bloggers no longer offer keywordluv because Google started penalizing people for over-optimized anchor text. That is why I turned it off. I still use CommentLuv and have both fields set to nofollow except for regular commenters. Once they have x number of comments, their CommentLuv link (but not the name field link) goes dofollow.
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  18. Thanks for adding these great plugins to your site! Its really help us. Mostly those people who new in SEO and Blog commenting .Once again Thank you for explaining this kind of extra ordinary post. keep it up!

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  19. Great post..! it’s very knowledgeable and informative post , i like this. thank you for sharing the great blog wit best description.

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  20. Really great article but yet i have doubt about comment Luv enabled blogs. recently I checked someone comment Luv enabled blog and I noticed about no follow links, When I checked about link type by inspect element , that was a no follow so it’s my big doubt about keyword Luv/comment love enabled blogs are no follow or do follow.
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  31. Was checking backlinks at some point and saw a few with the anchor being my name. Makes much more sense now. Will try and use: name @ sitename when commenting on articles…. Does it make a difference? Will add CommentLuv plugin to my site when I get the chance to do so – everything with commentluv is new for me, but very interesting.
    Thank you for a great post here. Helps clear somethings up.

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  32. Keyword luv gives a new way to do commenting on blog with his link.
    Thanks for explain the keyword luv.

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  33. This tool is very beneficial and especially to know about effective use of anchor text. As after the recent panda and penguin updates the use of anchor text or I must say effective and correct use of anchor text has become very important to make or break a website in SERP’s. A varied profile of anchor text can be beneficial but it’s also important to know if the keywords are being overused.

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    • Yes, you can still use keywords using the premium (paid) plugin CommentLuv Premium; however, Google has been penalizing blogs that allow keywords and people who put keywords in the name field in comments. I have turned them off in this blog because of this as I do not wish to get others penalized.

      I focus on using comments to build community and attract readers, not for SEO. Both links in my comments here are now nofollow and have been for a long time.
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  38. information you are providing is so much useful and i can understand it. Hope you will also provide useful infomation in future…

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  39. In my opinion for CommentLuv comment are most better than normal comments and high authority in seo. Any way thanks for introducing CommentLuv information.

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    • Hello,

      The Keywordluv plugin has not been updated in years. Although the capability still exists in CommentLuv Premium, most sites that once offered it have turned it off or nofollowed the links. Even I have turned it off and nofollowed all comment links. This has become necessary because Google has penalized both the bloggers and their commenter’s sites for allowing it.
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  41. nice and really relevant post, thanks for this relevant post.
    Certainly keywordluv/commentluv works really good. I have several blogs and used keeywordluv/commentluv and i got good response. It also helps to generate traffic.

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  42. I\’m just learning about the dofollow attributes of CommentLuv. Thank you for so much useful detail. I am experimenting with the dofollow comments by commenting here.

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  45. since I am new to blogging,eagerly held up to think about keywordluv,commentluv .and this clarified pleasantly and informatively.This article is anything but difficult to understand,thus sufficiently accommodating to get clear idea of keywordluv/commentluv .truly exceptionally content with your writing. Thank you all that much. Really usefull
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    • Hi John,

      CommentLuv comes in both a free and a premium version. Keywordluv is a free plugin, but it hasn’t been updated in many years and most of us who were using it have stopped. The premium version of CommentLuv includes that feature. Search for CommentLuv using the search box here on this site and you will find many posts about it.
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  48. about keywordluv it’s is the best option for WordPress website. im using it on both platforms wordpress & blogger

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  49. I needed to thank you for this great read!! I certainly loved every little bit of it. Because it it explains effective techniques on how to put comments on posts. I have you book marked to check out new stuff you post…

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  52. I really enjoy the benefits Keywordluv provides us bloggers, interaction with vistors to your website is critical. Keywordluv is truly the best thing you need to have more interaction and input from your website vistors.

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  54. I have never seen anything like that before so I really appreciate that. I hope to see more great articles here in the future too so keep it up and good luck to all of you!

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  56. Nice article. Personally I love commentluv or Keyword love because it will flag spam automatically.This is helpful for not only the writer of the blog but for the commenters also who are looking for good quality posts.Keep up the good work!!

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  57. Comment love is certainly the one of the must have plugin for blogger.Not only it gives backlinks,it also helps in driving traffic.Nicely explained detailed post by the way.

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  59. I have always noticed that your blog posts are so well written and informative .
    The best thing which I like most in your articles is that your articles are very interesting to read because it was written in so easy language and it really helps newbie bloggers like me. It really sound great when you read such a post which is totally helpful to you and your mostly doubts has been cleared after reading that post and your post is of that kind.
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  60. nope I dont agree with you that keyword luv is dead these days infact it still entertains the best in my senses…infact I think more and more users are connecting with keyword and comment luv these days and are benefiting from its features and which contributes to the factor of it being one of the best even now…
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    • Hi Pulkit,

      The KeywordLuv plugin hasn’t been maintained in years, but it is available in CommentLuv Premium. The reason I turned it off is because Google is penalizing people who link to their own sites too much with anchor text. I really liked having it because it let me know instantly what my readers were interested in.
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    • The KeywordLuv plugin hasn’t been maintained in years, but it is available in CommentLuv Premium. The reason I turned it off is because Google is penalizing people who link to their own sites too much with anchor text. I really liked having it because it let me know instantly what my readers were interested in.
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  65. well many of guys say now comment luv hearts the website seo is this true or not…… and how this help in seo 🙂

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  72. Hi Gail

    I always notice that your blog posts are so unique and well explained with deep information.

    The best thing which I like most in your articles is that your articles are so easy to understand because it was written in so easy language and it really helps newbie bloggers like me. It really sound great when you read such a post which is totally helpful to you and your mostly doubts has been cleared after reading that post and your post is of that kind.

    I would recommend it to those newbie bloggers who need it the most. May this post will also helpful to them as it helped me.

    What you say, Am I right or not? 😉
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  73. That is all about key word luv blog summary..which is really useful to all persons..thanks to share it.please keep it up.

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  74. Certainly keywordluv/commentluv works really good. I have several blogs and used keeywordluv/commentluv and i got good response. It also helps to generate traffic.

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  76. Hi,I have been using keywordluv/commentluv for all my blogs, I am quite new to blogging but have found these plug-ins to be really helpful in generating blog comments, the only downside is it also attracts a lot of spam comments.I was thinking of using a CAPTCHA code to try and stop spam comments, but am curious if they actually work? I like th style of growmap.com I think it looks good layed out great and is quite an interesting read.Thanks.Mike

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  77. I love this one! Thanks for sharing this, its benefit in search results and seo your keywords without spamming.

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  78. i am glad to read this blog and agreed with your point keyword luv commenting is best way to anchor text and get free link without any risk and this plug quality is very fine and good i m big fan of this plug and working amaze with my blog can you tell me what is the different between premium and simple Comment Luv .

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  80. Personally I believe that all the comments are always in do-follow. So, that every one get benefit of it and also connected with youor blog. I am going ahead in trying out Keywordluv. It encourages everyone to engage the blog posts.

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  81. Very Informative.Thanks for sharing about keywordLuv.They are the best plugin to generate traffic.

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  84. This was a very informative article. I just recently discovered KeywordLuv and stumbled upon your article. I have to say that you answered so many of my questions, and even questions I had not yet thought about. Thank you for sharing, this not so tech savvy dentist really appreciates it. P.S., from a small business owner attempting SEO, thank you for allowing so many of our comments and key words, your efforts are truly appreciated!

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  86. A great primer on keywordluv, one of my favorite benefits is that it drives other bloggers to read your glob, comment, and interact.

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  88. Thank you for supporting small business. I appreciate the community you are creating to help each other succeed in business!

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  90. There are many ways to get keywordluv to your sites nowadays but along with the tried and true Search Engine Optimization for organic more traffic for your site. If the new to blogging and had much experience with keywords I highly suggest trying other traffic generation methods before setting out to use the keywordluv is type of advertising for the site name show.

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  91. As promised here is my blog site, http://antasta.com

    You can add it to your list of dofollow blogs as I believe, I have changed it to allow follow comments.

    Lets all start sharing and helping each other.

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  92. I do have a blog site that I am just starting out developing on SEO that I will be passing on in my next post. Sharing and helping each other is probably the only way to beat bid daddy G at its own game. Maybe some needs to outrank it for the phrase Google to teach it a lesson!

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  93. Keywordluv and commentluv are best plugin to generate huge traffic on website or blog.
    many thanks for posting a helpful blog post on these plugin.

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  95. Thanks for sharing this excellent resource on making the most of Keywordluv, I too have recently learned how to make the most of Keywordluv enabled blogs. Great job!

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  96. KeywordLuv is a WordPress plugin, that I think is a must for do-follow blogs, and I use it on all of my dofollow blogs. .Those who post valid comments on do-follow blogs know that it’s important to use the right keyword link text on their comments. Nice resources !

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  97. Further to my last – I read what you wrote about dropping page rank but do you think this is due to being do follow or might it just be coincidence? I’m thinking there are benefits to both but this early in the game I’m not sure I want to penalize my page rank for the sake of comments because I am just trying to build it.
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    • Hi Trevor,

      Everyone on the planet has a decision to make about how long to play the game of the wealthy elite – knowing their end goal is to eliminate small businesses and independent thinkers and make us all slaves – versus when they better have traffic and sales that come from any other place except Google. It is not early in this game – it is late.

      Building blogging communities is a way to grow that does not rely on the ever declining traffic from the Google monopoly. Make no mistake about this: Google really IS Evil.

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  98. My question is this … I have a blog that is about 3 months old. I’m pretty new to all this keyword stuff and I have been considering making my blog do follow. I really have not been able to find any solid evidence that this is either good or bad. Could you share your experience on this please. I have spam software installed so that is not a huge concern for me. Thank you.
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  100. Based on the comments here in this post, we can see how KeywordLuv plugin is very popular and very useful.It is one of my favorite blog plugin.

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  102. Keywordluv one my favorite and best plugin for blog sites, it can make blogger’s life easy. Very useful

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  104. It’s a fine line between attracting new comments and handling the spam it attracts.

    It is a good way to increase traffic and get more involvement out of your community 🙂

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  105. I never heard about KeywordLuv until today. From what I have been reading, it seems like a really great plugin. Also I am pretty sure from what i have heard is that its popularity is growing a lot.

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  106. Thank you for gathering all the websites in this post. I appreciate all the useful sites that you have shared here. Thanks for helping us achieve online success.

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  107. KeywordLuv is simple enough, but I didn’t quite understand how CommentLuv works until I read this article. Thanks for the clear explanations and for the tips on filling out the URL field.

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  108. What a great post. I would like to tell you thank you for telling us your idea’s. I will for sure +1 your site. It’s hard to find quality comments.We just purchased a book on the exact matter and was pretty informative, but you explained a few things that the book failed to do.
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  112. The CommentLuv community is especially strong and readers can easily see CommentLuv featured posts. With KeywordLuv you can now reward your commentators by separating their name from their keywords in the link to their website. Great post
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  113. KeywordLuv is effective ways to make every comment we write or receive provide much more benefits. With KeywordLuv you can now reward your commentators by separating their name from their keywords in the link to their website. Great post

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  114. I do agree with your view point on Google. Google HATES advertisers. I am curious, do you work to keep spam off you site since you said you generally auto approve comments. I am paraphrasing a bit. Would you recommend the same thing for all bloggers or are you preferring to be the exception to the rule?

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  116. I also like KeywordLuv plugin. I am using this one on many of my blogs and also my many clients are using the same.

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  118. I have a new customer service blog that is dofollow Keywordluv.

    I love the idea. It’s like vigilante marketers taking links into their own hands.

    I’ve read the horror stories from blog owners about keeping up with comments, spam, and their comments losing value for the readers.

    So I’m trying to compromise. I’m happy to link to businesses, but I ask that they leave our readers a customer service tip.

    So far, just spam, but it’s a brand new site with nonexistent PR…
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  119. I am from Turkey and maybe %95 of Turkish bloggers doesn’t even know about keywordluv. It might sound funny but that’s the fact.

    I am currently using keywordluv and this article kind of inspired me to introduce it to the Turkish bloggers and hopefully get them to use it.

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  120. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I tend to look at it this way: small site makes link on big site with the hopes that big site pulls them up. That’s well and good but when too many small (or bad) sites comment on big site, big site gets pulled down. Everybody loses, right?

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    • Hi Richard, first of all page rank is not the be-all and end-all, it is an indication of page importance but it has little or no bearing on your SERPs, which is all you should really care about. Good SERPs for many keywords = lots of good traffic. Huge PR with rubbish SERPs = nothing. You can search on any term and compare the PRs of the pages returned, you’ll see that they are not in decreasing order, there will be many pages with PR0 well above pages with PR3 or 4 or 5 etc.
      Secondly PR is calculated based on more than just inbound links – outbound links.
      Many comments on a page show that the page has a thriving readership, a community around it, this is much more important than PR, this will give you good SERPs 10x quicker than a higher PR.
      This is from Matt Cutts blog.
      “Q: Okay, but doesn’t this encourage me to link out less? Should I turn off comments on my blog?
      A: I wouldn’t recommend closing comments in an attempt to “hoard” your PageRank. In the same way that Google trusts sites less when they link to spammy sites or bad neighborhoods, parts of our system encourage links to good sites.”
      I think we need to look beyond pagerank. I don’t even think Google still support pagerank. It’s not included in the latest google tool bars is it?
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      • Excellent insights, Tom – and I would go further and say we must look beyond Google because they are systematically taking traffic away from small businesses including bloggers and handing it to their favored big brands.

        That is no secret: they publicly announced they are favoring big brands and there is ample evidence they do.

        The only way to take away their monopoly is for EVERYONE who realizes what is going on to encourage their friends, family, co-workers, and every other person they know to use alternatives to Google.

        We need to use the major platforms like Google (including Google+), Twitter, Facebook, etc. to bring people back to domains we control to interact – because accounts on all those services are deleted capriciously all the time. And we must SAVE offline contact information and have many methods of reaching each other – NEVER relying on only one that could disappear in the blink of an eye.
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        • a cool site and an interesting story.

          what do you do when someone has a monopoly, we can’t only advertise or try to rank on other search engines until search volumes make it viable. So while we try to convince users to search with other engines we still have to optimise for G. :-(.
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        • Well said. We must look beyond Google and make use of other alternatives. With the availability of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedlin, etc. this is possible if we support each other.

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  121. Keywordluv is a good bridge between bloggers and reader, it provides opportunity for blogger to get more and more comments and in return your readers will definitely going to get some benefit for reading your post.

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  122. More than 1000 comments? Wow, this is crazy :). Awesome & so far best article I have read about this topic.

    We, a Recruitment Agency in Cairns, are also using CommentLuv and KeywordLuv since last week. Feel free to check out our comment window :).

    Kind regards from Signature Staff, Cairns, QLD, Australia & keep in touch Growmap!

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  123. Keyword is really good for both the article writer and the commenter. Writer can get views about his article and the commenter can get a link in return.

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  124. I don’t understand why blogs advocating comment luv would then set their blog comments to no follow. I am kind of new at this, but that does not make much sense to me. How do i know if my link is getting credit? Can someone please comment back to me 🙂

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    • Some want the benefits of CommentLuv links but are scared they will “leak link juice” and lose Google PageRank or upset that 800 lb gorilla that is anti-dofollow.

      Right now some strange things are going on with links that SHOULD BE dofollow and are configured to be dofollow being nofollow. I am working to diagnose what is causing that so we can get it fixed. It is possible WordPress is doing that but it could just be some weird bug in CommentLuv.

      Don’t judge which blogs are dofollow right now – and even after this issue is resolved be aware that bloggers can require a certain number of approved comments before your comments go dofollow. That is now easily configured within CommentLuv.

      The way you are using keywords will not work. You need to focus on ONE phrase per comment or you will never rank for anything. What you put in this comment would require a searcher to type all that for you to show up high in the search results.

      Do you really think anyone is going to search for all those words at one time? Focus on one phrase at a time.
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    • Thank you for the fast response. I thought it was alright to use more than one keyword phrase because it says it’s OK to use up to 5 below, however, you make a lot of sense. People usually type in one term at a time in the search box. I like all of the valuable info you provide, so I will be back often and comment as well. I own 3 separate websites, so you might see a few different keywords associated with me

      Thanks again for taking the time to get back with me 🙂

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  125. keywordluv is not doubt a good tool for back links but most of the moderators set the options to make your link do not follow. so does it have a adverse effect on Google ranking and searching ???

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  126. When posting replies to CommentLuv blogs or forums, make sure to check other people’s posts and see they allow DoFollow links. External NoFollow links will have little impact on your SEO.

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  128. well I am just learning about this commentluv and just wanted to say you offered alot of information. I am on blogger but I have set my blog to “do follow” as I agree that small business need to support each other. Especially those of us that are unemployed and hoping to get a few cents from out blogs and website. Thanks for sharing!

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  129. I think KeywordLuv can be a great way to get traffic, considering that blogs with KeywordLuv are in demand. Of course a large percentage of the people who post comments will be doing so just to gain backlinks, but some will stay and read. The only problem I can think of is that it must be hell to moderate!

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    • Hi Kay,

      Yes, moderating can be a challenge but it is worth it to me to support small businesses. The spammers can be very annoying and I regularly share tips for bloggers are what IS spam and what is NOT spam because many automatically delete comments they don’t like or that link to any business and that is a bad thing to do.

      I’ve linked to my latest post about that in CommentLuv in this reply and have explained why supporting small businesses is key to improving our economy.
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  130. Any hard up brides like me out there? Will the Euro crisis mess up my wedding? Limit the spend on the venue, but have a live String Quartet, they don’t cost a fortune. Even a simple venue will seem magic with live music playing.

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  131. Thanks for your use of KeywordLuv. No follow still gets a little juice. I never pay any attention anymore. If I feel I can add a comment of value, I do it. If someone is interested in dog training, they may visit my site. Thanks again.
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    • Hi Jim,

      PageRank is really a red herring to keep the naive busy worrying about link juice instead of focusing on what matters much more: better search engine positions.

      That said, Google has a monopoly on search and they are taking away the traffic they used to give: Google giveth; Google taketh away – so wise bloggers and businesses will focus on alternative ways to get traffic from REAL people through networks of blogs and using social network to create REAL RELATIONSHIPS.

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  132. I’ve got a question about the keywordluv: People are probably googling “keywordluv” just to find site that will give them a backlink. Now, I can’t imagine anything else than a huge increase in spammy comments? I don’t know how many visitors you have each day, but I mean, a site that have thousands of visitors a day would have their hands full removing spammy comments. I’m hesitant to use this plugin on my site because of that. What do you think?

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    • Hi Lars,

      Yes they are and yes there CAN BE more spam as spammers love to target dofollow blogs that use KeywordLuv; however, allowing keywords and being dofollow also attracts other influential social media savvy bloggers who give of their time freely to promote other blogs and good causes through linking, commenting and sharing on social networks.

      Allowing keywords is also key to supporting small businesses and THEY are the cure for economic declines everywhere. I write regularly about How We Can Support Small Businesses and How to Use CommentLuv to Improve the Economy.

      Another benefit to being a dofollow CommentLuv KeywordLuv blogger is that other bloggers in our community will heavily support you. I explain why in my Top Marketing Blogs post.

      Vernessa @CoachNotesBlog has installed a forum for us to discuss important information and I will be bringing in only the bloggers who are sincerely about doing the right thing and not just PRETENDING they are when they are really keeping score and only do for others if they believe the payoff is great enough for them.

      The key to dealing with the spam is blocking automated spambots. As long as Andy can keep the spammers blocked using the GrowMap anti-spambot plugin (G.A.S.P.) or CommentLuv Premium which has GASP built in we can block 96% of spam comments and let 100% of real comments through. Then we only have to determine which comments left by humans are actually spam – and that CAN be a challenge.

      I write about what IS spam and what is NOT spam frequently. I’ll put my latest post on that subject in CommentLuv in this reply.
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  133. KeyWordLuv.com is for Sale!
    I am the owner of KeyWordLuv.com domain name and want to sale it. If anyone interested to buy, please contact via web_nazam(AT)live.com or sales(AT)worldsitehost.com or simply reply to this post
    Please do hurry.
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  134. Keywordluv is great and allows both commentators and blog owners to connect in a more beneficial way with each other.

    What I dislike is when you do have Keywordluv installed and some comments still do not use their name but just put their anchor text in the name field.

    It is what I call abuse.

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  135. Yes, that’s a nice list!! Thanks.Do you have a post about how to find dofollow blogs? Also, I have read that keywordluv, commentluv and a dofollow plugin when used together will boost PR. Have you or is there anyone who has used this combination and can comment on what happened to their PR, if anything? Thanks again!
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    • Hi Richard,

      Check out the CommentLuv search engine I link to in the post I’ll put in CommentLuv in this reply. We use DoFollow, CommentLuv and Keywords (now a part of the CommentLuv Premium plugin but previously a separate plugin called KeywordLuv) on all of our blogs.

      Bloggers who choose to be dofollow fear that combination will lose them PR. For years it did not cause us any reduction, then the update before last we were dropped from PR4 to PR3 when we expected to go to PR5, but during the last update we were restored to PR4.

      Few blogs allow as many links in comments as we do. Being DoFollow and allowing keywords and CommentLuv attracts real readers and loyal commenters who value their time and know they get to read content they are interested in, build backlinks, and attract real visitors from our blog back to their own.

      On the rare occasions that I comment in a non-CommentLuv blog I really miss it. I go out of my way to comment in CommentLuv blogs and only comment in any other blogs if I have something really important I feel needs saying.
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  136. Less and less bloggers are using do-follow links and I think its a shame. I am in the process of enabling comments on my new blog and i’m not sure which way I will go yet, more research into the pros and cons needed I think
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    • oh, I did answer that point from the other comment. Weird, they’ve got out of synch. OK good I wasn’t being rude and ignoring your response then. Sorry to duplicate.
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  138. Hi Tom,

    The usual reason is that they are afraid of Google lowering their PageRank, moving them down in the search engines, or dropping their sites altogether because Google is anti-dofollow and links in comments.

    People have been conditioned to “only trust big brands” so they often delete links to businesses and even I am not thrilled about the links you use because payday loans are one of the best examples of predatory lending so valued by the greedy and perpetrated on the desperate:

    “The Predatory Lending Association mission: To help predatory lenders extract maximum profit from the working poor and retired poor with payday loans.

    The predatory lending industry: In the last 10 years, payday loan stores have gone from being illegal to outnumbering Starbucks™ coffee shops in many states.

    “Predatory Lending: Maximum profit: In 2006, American families spent one in seven of their take home dollars on debt payments 1. The Predatory Lending Association is the only organization dedicated to helping you capture these dollars. “

    Have you ever considered writing about what is WRONG with predatory lending instead of recommending them? Before lobbying dollars made them legal they would have more accurately been referred to as loan sharks.
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  139. Does it matter if you leave a space between your name, the @ symbol and your keywords? I did this through some commenting in the past and it seems to work, but it would be great to have confirmation from someone who knows.

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  140. I found some problems with commentluv.When i leave a comment with anchor text at the end and i check it with a backlink software the moment the page gets indexed i see as anchor text “Image”, can anybody tell me why this is?Do i need to register with commentluv site?Great dofollow commentluv enabled list by the way
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    • Hi John,

      I’m not sure what you mean. You know that there are now two ways that bloggers allow keywords in the name field:
      1) They use free CommentLuv plugin and free KeywordLuv plugin
      2) They bought CommentLuv Premium

      Either way, CommentLuv (the link at the END of a comment) is separate from KeywordLuv (the link in the name field).

      In your comment just above this reply you have keywords in both fields so I don’t know what you mean. You are obviously registered with CommentLuv or your CommentLuv link would not be there.

      Can you give me a URL on any site where you see an image instead of keywords so I can see what you mean?
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      • Ok, i have an example. I have a site called seo-titan.com , it’s still new so if you check with traffic travis or opensiteexplorer you will see it only found one backlink and that’s from http://www.famousbloggers.net/strengthen-article-marketing-commentluv-links.html. Here you see i put a commentluv anchor text but in both software the backlink is seen as a “Image”. Do you understand now better what i mean?I have this problem with many commentluv enabled blogs.Mail me at the above emailaddress if you have found the answer. Also the other anchor text i left is still not indexed which is very strange because your site gets spidered many times per day.
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  144. Hey,
    thank you very much for making the effort and putting together a list of all these blogs. This is a huge time-saver! Thank you very much!

    And yes, Commentluv Premium rocks. (Got it installed too! 🙂 )

    Greetings,

    André

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  145. I’m testing this commentluv thing out. When I select the check box for commentluv, it says “a feed could not be found at http://www.exhibitflooringsolutions.com”

    What does this mean? Am I supposed to register somewhere for something? Please help! You can email me at the email address within this post!
    Thanks!

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  146. Something else, i commented on some blogs that have commentluv enabled but when i see they are indexed i check the anchor text through majesticseo and another seo tool but no anchor text can be found. Could you tell me why this is?
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  147. Great information here.I love this blog you started. I am thinking on starting my own commentluv enabled blog. Should i make it dofollow or nofollow?Something else, are you telling me google kicked you out of the serps because you sell text links or ads on your site?please explain
    thanks
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    • Hi John,

      No, I didn’t say anything like that. I said this blog has a lower pagerank than it should because of the large number of comments and outgoing links in the comments.

      I do not sell text links and it is unwise for anyone to offer to sell text links or buy them because that is explicitly against their TOS.

      At some point each person has to decide for themselves whether they are going to let corporations control their thinking and what they do or they are going to do the right thing and let the chips fall wherever they may. I believe in doing the right thing whether that 800# gorilla approves or not.
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  150. This is such a great article! I am quite impressed with the amount of responses. My computer barely has the ability to upload them all.

    I think it’s great if KeywordLuv and CommentLuv continue to grow in their popularity.

    I replied here a couple months ago, and keep seeing so many follow up emails of more comments I had to come take a peak 🙂

    Thanks again for the great article
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  152. I too am totally behind the movement towards CommentLuv simply because it supports the right spirit among webmasters and bloggers to share and help one another. We need to stick together! So I endorse your post wholeheartedly. Great work.

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  153. Wow, wish that I had known about the premium presale! Can’t wait until they open it again. Thanks for all the information on keyword luv and comment luv. Really useful to me.

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  154. Wow. Pretty impressive what a plugin will do for your blog and getting comments and traffic. Great post and info and how to promote commentluv!

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  155. Incredible long list of keyword luv blogs and websites ! Nice work.

    I have found a couple of keyword luv sites in my niche and am about to write some comments now.

    This post have earned a share on my Twitter account 🙂

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  156. I knew comment luv was great of people looking to promote their sites but I didn’t know it could be so beneficial for site owners. It really does seem to bring a lot of traffic. This post has over 1,000 comments. I found this site searching through google and now that I know about it I’m sure I’ll read a few more articles. Cheers!
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  159. Great article, I don’t think I have seen keywordluv explained that “in detail” before. I just started using it on my posts and blogs, and it seems to make a huge difference. I think more and more people will figure out what is going on and it will only continue to grow.
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  161. wow, I was just looking for the toolbar to see which blogs were do-don’t follow and you guys were right up there in the search. Thanks for telling me about the SEO Book toolbar, it really packs some punch. I am trying to get back links to my website and have found there is a lot to learn about this business. I wish someone had a seo 1-2-3 book..

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  162. I really admire keywordluv. It is a great plug-in. I am also an avid blogger, hence I found this plug-in really helpful. It is more helpful to those beginners in the blogging industry, for those who are not yet aware of keywords, anchor texts, and how they affect SEO.

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  164. I think the keywordluv plugin is a great way to reward your commenters. It’s a good way for people to get the backlinks they need for more traffic to be driven to their blogs! I think it definitely makes a difference from not having it as people don’t tend to contribute as much as when you do have it.

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  165. I usually start with commentluv… which doesn’t bring too much spam (and it will depend on your niche of course) I do find keywordluv brings more spam, but not a huge amount.

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  166. I think more people should use the keywordluv plugin, it certainly makes a difference from not having it as people don’t tend to contribute as much as when you do have it. It’s really useful to get backlinks to web pages and increase traffic and the bloggers get their comments they need! Thanks

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  167. I am very interested in the Keywordluv. Thank you for this forum.

    [Note from GrowMap: I added anchor text using KeywordLuv to your comment for you so you can see how that works. Instead of your name only use Mike @ Your Keywords.]

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  168. I understand the benefits of KeywordLuv, but if the webmasters do not monitor the link backs then they get gambling, pills, etc posting those will damage other pages rankings ..
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    • I get to know my readers, what they offer, and what is most important to them quickly based on the keywords they choose and then I can connect them with collaborators and potential customers.

      I get pages of comments but IMHO they aren’t “spammy” or “of no real value”. Just because someone understands the value and importance of link building does NOT mean they are not interested in learning more about the topics covered here and do not have valuable insights to share with me and my readers.

      Often you can learn as much in the discussions in my comments here as you do from my posts.

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  171. As I giving comments here, this is the benefits that I reap from keywordLuv. I could put my name as well as my keyword. Putting keyword is giving honor to the commenter. so this is a win win situation.

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  172. I agree with you about when you said, “First you need to clearly understand what anchor text is and why it is so important to you.”

    There are a lot of people who don’t understand the proper way of setting up backlinks and how important anchor text is.
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  173. Now, I have understood what is keyword luv and comment luv blogs. It will help me lot. Will also use these on my blogs. Thanks for sharing.

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  176. keyword luv is not being installed due to it not being on every platform and also the fear of spam..but from coming across and actually comparing posts………….those left in keyword luv posts actually mean something.and are incredibly insightful…………………well most of them anyway………..

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  179. I think more people should use the keywordluv plugin, it certainly makes a difference from not having it as people don’t tend to contribute as much as when you do have it. It’s really useful to get backlinks to web pages and increase traffic and the bloggers get their comments they need! Thanks

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  181. Thank you so much for this article, a great reminder and clarification of how key the CommentLuv movement is for us bloggers. It has also made me realized I need to double check that I not only have the CommentLuv plug in, but also Keyword Luv and DoFollow plug-ins as well.
    Will be returning to this as a resource…thanks again!

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  183. Very cool P.O.V. I always wondered why people were so reluctant to allow KeywordLuv, despite the fact that it encourages people to comment more, and forces them to actually post a relevant comment. I had a question though, as far as SEO, do you recommend linking to the main page only, or to the other pages on the website? (blog posts etc.)

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    • Hi Mort,

      For the blog where you comment whether your link lands on your main page or other pages doesn’t really matter although if you have a related page that is best for both of you.

      For the blogger who is receiving the incoming link (you when you’re leaving a comment) it is best to have key pages or posts to which you create links using a specific keyword phrase. For details see my post about Using Anchor Text.

      Posts and pages are better than category pages because on most blogs those are probably set to not be indexed. That may or may not be true on every blog – it depends on the theme you’re using and how your SEO including SEO plugin options are configured.
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  184. I think keyword luv and comment luv are great additions to the blogging universe, i do have to spam quite a few comments, but it’s worth it in the end when you get more people to produce real genuine comments :0
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  185. This tool looks like it will be very helpful. We are getting a new blog started and it looks like both comment luv and Keywordluv will be very useful. Thanks

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  186. We have installed Keyword Luv on several of our blogs, but I never thought to do an “instructional” post on how to use it effectively for our commentors.

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  187. I am very excited to have found your site. I am new to the world of blogging and you have many great suggestions. I have followed you on twitter as well. I laughed a little inside when you talked about the great almighty G. Clearly they have a lot of power in what many do!Thanks.

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  188. Hopefully people will focus more time on the body of their comments and make it relevant to the piece when they are getting anchor text via key word luv. It’s nice to place a name to a comment too!

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  189. Very interesting Post. For someone who is new to all of this, it sometimes seems a little overwhelming. There is so much to learn. KeywordLuv seems like a very useful tool to create backlinks. Thanks for the info.

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  191. you must create categories, one for each letter, you create links through a menu. For each new menu item, you assign the type: category list.

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  192. I love this idea! I decided to launch a blog for this sole purpose, so that whomever adds a related contributing comment, they can share in the keyword luv. Thanks for the helpful post 🙂
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  193. I think every blogger should install this dofollow commentluv and keywordluv plugin in their sites. After all we need some encouragement from there need and that helps us to put our valuable comments there and without spamming. Thanks for this huge lists.

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  194. great article, and no, I am not about to lick Big Ugly G’s boots! Although it does suck that it has so much control over our interent success. We need a good alternative, but no one on the horizon for now. Yahoo and Bing still just aren’t strong enough.

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  195. This is really helpful to me – I honestly never knew what the whole “keyword Luv” thing was about since I’m a little new at affiliate marketing. BUT, I know enough to know the importance of getting our keywords into our anchor text. I think that keyword Luv is actually going to cut down on the amount of “junk comments” in general since we’re allowed to use our anchor text. I think people will be a little more inclined to leave thoughtful, content-rich comments. Thanks so much! 🙂

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  196. I’ve never used keyword luv on my website but I am just seeing what other people think atm. Your post has given me a lot of what i wanted to know

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  197. Thank you for this clear and detailed description. Previously, I did not see advantages for the blogger, and could not understand the meaning of commentluv

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  201. Growmap, you rock! I’m new to IM and SEO and find it frustrating that it’s so hard to build good links now–thanks to wretched useless people who have no respect for others and spams blogs and forums into making them no follow!
    I think keywordluv is fabulous (just came across it recently for the first time) and I’m really excited about it. I hope that blogs owners will all begin to switch to it, although I see from this blog (sadly) that it still doesn’t always stop wretched spammers from leaving spam!

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  202. Havnt used keywordluv for a while but back to using it again! Forgot how good it actually was in finding related blogs.

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  203. This will encourage readers to leave a comment if they have a website and that would definitely increase your traffic on a daily basis.

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  204. I love commentluv, and keywordluv, it’s a great way to encourage comments. Sadly there’s a little extra work weeding out the spammers, but I think it’s well worth it.
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  205. Hi thank you very much for your article. I think I’ll use keywordluv plugin for my blog. thank you very much for your review.

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    • I have only started to comment on CommentLuv or KeywordLuv and still not 100% sure if it effect the google ranking? I do it because i like to do it, especially when there is a good topic.

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  206. Keywordluv is great! However I heard it is harder to find them now to comment on since google managed to filter them out?

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  208. Comment luv and keyword luv are interested additions to the world of blogging. Although I feel they can be beneficial to promoting people to comment, there are still quite a few people that leave spammy comments on my website (when I can tell they didn’t read the article at all). Hopefully more people will take the time to read what they are responding to lol, until then it’s the delete button for me.

    [Hi April. I moved your link because many bloggers and blog readers feel having a link hanging at the end of a comment looks spammy. That is why this blog provides KeywordLuv. See How to Use KeywordLuv for details.]

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  209. Commentluv are great tools. They give a benefit to everyone the blogger and the commentators. I just recently started using Keywordluv on one of my blogs. Thanks

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  210. Commentluv and Keywordluv are great resources. They give a benefit to both the blogger and the commentators. I just recently started using Keywordluv.

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  214. Fantastic post. Thank You. I was already using CommentLuv and DoFollow but I didn’t know about KeywordLuv. Thanks to you I have downloaded it and will install it as soon as I get done here.
    Thanks Again.
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  219. I love the Keywordluv blogs. I realize that you do have to monitor the site to reduce the “great site” type of comments. But I think that most involved in SEO work have evolved to more sophisticated techniques. I think for the most part Keywordluv is a great give and take. It allows a valuable exchange of information for both blogger and commentor.

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  220. I am new to all this and am glad to have found your post that educated me well. Keywords have always been a confusion and I could not figure out about keywordluv and commentluv. I am still unaware of dofollow blogs and want to know about them in detail. Though I want to hire a SEO I cannot do that before being aware of the concepts on my own!

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  221. Wow, a great blogging resource and a real time saver, maybe you could benefit from a gardening section *hint hint* 😀

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  225. Wow, this is a lot to take in. When I feel I can handle the task, I will be adding commentluv and keywordluv to my blogs. I know the blogging world wants to avoid spam, and this is helpful!

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  226. Thanks for the info on the keyword luv plugin, I think i’ll include it on my new site also. Its a good way to reward your readers that continue to follow your posts.

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  229. Thank you for the informative article. A confusing thing is that it’s not obvious which blogs use Keyword Luv, because the “Leave a Comment” form looks just like any other blog’s. It’s useful that you provide instructions on how to write the comment – another non-obvious thing! (And I hope I did it right… 😉

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  232. Great information on ‘keywordluv’ plug in and what it can do. It certainly looks a lot more professional having a nice link associated with your name.
    I’m certainly going to get started with this asap.
    Thanks again for the quality info!
    Robert
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  233. Hey!
    The post contains so good facts about dofollow blogs and importance of keyword Love, but I do want to know one thing as you said that a keywod luv enabled blog is not necessarily a dofollow one then how can we judge a blog whether its dofollow or not?

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  234. I love keyword love not only the site which we commented can benefit from traffic but also the commenter with the keyword that they want to pursue whether it be long tailed or not…
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  235. I am new to blogging and wanted to know about commenting. Had never heard of keywordluv and commenluv until I made my own blog. Then I noticed seeing it at the bottom of many blogs. I was very confused about them and could not understand their importance. By the help of your articles my problem is solved and I learned a lot. Thank you so much. I hope to learn much more about blogging from you.

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  237. Well i’ve increased your view time by sitting here in a coma looking at the number of comments this post has received. Now i knew CommentLuv was awesome, but you are obviously taking things to the max. Guess what i’ll now be back again and again, learning from the ‘master’. One thing left to say “Wow!”

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    • Hi Larry,

      CommentLuv creates communities among bloggers and KeywordLuv allows blogs and businesses to link their best anchor text instead of their names so that their comments become more valuable as incoming links.

      I’ve added anchor text for you so you can see what I mean. This post explains how to use KeywordLuv but all you have to do is add @ keywords after your name when leaving a comment like this:

      Larry Lewis @ Healthy Lifestyle

      See your comment to see how that works.

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  239. You are so full of great advice, knowledge and help. Appreciated. I will be needing this.
    Anyway plugin is kind of award for regular commentators.

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  241. Yes! I found another keywordluv blog. < << — see this is the reaction that you get when people find blog like this! Thanks for allowing comments. Propz and cheers!

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  243. Everyone loves a blog open for comments!

    No, but seriously. KeywordLuv is one of the best plugins out there for wordpress and I really appreciate webmasters who are willing to install it. Some people actually leave legitimate responses!

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  245. When we began to reject more comments, it really cut down on the number of posts we had. I think this is because SEO companies are keeping databases of Luv sites that they can use. Once they realize it doesn’t get accepted, they stopped coming back.

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  246. Taking in Google – man, you have balls the size of Empire State Building! Respect. You are also almost unique in supporting keyword commenters. Let me click on a few ads here )

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  247. Yes, recently CommentLuv version 2.9 has been out. You have to watch a video for 3 mins for instructions on how to get it.

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  248. Keyword luv is really a good wordpress plugins. It can help two way for both commenter and blogger. It definitely encourages comments and, contrary to what some people may think, comments help a blog’s search engine ranking. They are a great way to bring people to your blog and benefit the posters at the same time so everyone wins!

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  249. I’m glad someone has the sense of self-preservation and fortitude to see past the Big G Bully’s little games and not cower to their consent enabled power.

    Your article exposing their alterior motives is spot on, although I have come accross even more official evidence then you mention, of their secret allegiances.

    As far as commentluv goes I really do think that it captures the essence of long-term online business building success, and that is community involvement.

    While I do appreciate your argument for leniency upon those who are either too rushed, lazy or witless to post an intelligible comment, I really think they ought to at least fairly represent the English language. There are so many posts, ostensibly from people outsourced to build links for pennies in countries like India, that read like a tornado has passed over them.
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    • Hi Alton,

      Every day I struggle over which comments to keep and which to delete because I know from personal experience how difficult it is to write properly in a second language.

      I will have to tighten up my commenting policy though because I am getting so many comments. Did you see there is a new version of CommentLuv out?
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      • Hi Growmap,

        My name is Daniel and I’m Spanish. I try to write in English the best I can, but I’m not an expert and I do what I can. If it’s about generic topic, I can do it well, but in specialized subjects it’s harder for me.

        And about keywordluv, it’s not a mystery that it is good for all, both webmasters and people who comment 🙂

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  250. Keyword luv is an awesome tool to gain popularity as well as help share some luv to those folks who leave quality comments 🙂
    I luv it and plan on upgrading my wordpress sites with it as well.

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  251. Hi Joshua,

    If you have any blogs that are dofollow and have both CommentLuv and KeywordLuv installed please be sure to leave a link here in the comments with your desired landing page and anchor text so I can add you to the blog list in this post.

    If you’re not sure what anchor text to use, read the post I’ve put in CommentLuv in this reply.
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  252. It is a great plug in! Dofollow, seo quake, google page rank, keywordluv are my four best friends

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  253. The is like the most in depth post I’ve seen on this subject, very detailed. I agree with you about this being growing community which is becoming very formidable, I might add. The key I think in my opinion is with keywordluv et al we are able to reach a sort of win win situation which is always ideal in any situation.

    Thanks I lot I might rumbling on.

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  254. I also support Dofollow movement and I hope it’s going to last and won;t be spoiled by spam commentors…

    Thanks also for the list, it will be useful

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  255. KeywordLuv and CommentLuv are the reasons why I am considering moving my blog to WordPress. It does do a much better job of passing along the best information to everyone, whether it is someone reading the comment or a search engine spider.

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  256. A lot of you are right. The right keywords are imperative to good SEO for bloggers. Make sure you’re using these plugins for your advantage while providing quality content. Spam stinks. Thanks to the webmaster. Cheers.

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  257. Hi!
    I just installed commentluv yesterday and the keywordluv plug-in today. Keywordluv confused me a bit because I can’t see it on my blog yet. But from what I understood, one can just test it to see if its compatible for their theme. The tips really help alleviate the confusion.

    And I think its great that you’re compiling a list of bloggers who are using these plug-ins, it will definitely help in the long-run.
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  259. I think both the KeywordLuv and CommentLuv are great plugins.They do encourage people to leave comments and increase readership. But the problem is getting quality comments as well as going through each comment to weed out those spammy ones. I suppose you will always have to take the good with the bad and make the best out of it. 😉

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  261. As you know I’m a firm believer of everything you’ve written about this post, and I proudly support [DoFollow, CommentLuv KeywordLuv movement, with a little ‘more than my Luving thrown in for good measure.

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  262. Very good blog info. I just recently heard about commentluv and find it to be very helpful. It is a shame if Google penalizes for its use. I am one of those people who think Google needs some stiff competition as they should not be able to have such a large affect on everything that happens on the internet.
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  263. I’m relatively new to the whole keywordluv scene but from what i have read and can make out from it, it seems to be a great idea. If you can get the time to moderate the comments or use a good spam filter, it will benefit your blog. Another bonus is not replying to comments of people whose names are just a bunch of keywords. You can feel like you are actually striking up a conversation with a real person. This is definitely one of the best posts i have read about keywordluv. You have covered just about every question that could be asked. Well done

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  264. Wow, what an incredible idea. It is nice to notice that some people really create new business and communication models!
    Regards, SEO/SEM specialist from Finland

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  265. I think more people should use the keywordluv plugin, it certainly makes a difference from not having it as people tend not to contribute as much as when you do have it. It’s really useful to get backlinks to web pages and increase traffic and the bloggers get their comments they need! Thanks

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  267. I love keyword luv but wish that all the sites using it were as great at this one.
    you have added a twitter id also how cool this is . I have put to follow you on rss. Great site will see more from you . Maybee could do an article about benefits of twitter id , you are the first to do this that i have seen, love to know how it works and benefits of it. lee

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  268. A lot of you are right. The right keywords are imperative to good SEO for bloggers. Make sure you’re using these plugins for your advantage while providing quality content. Spam stinks. Thanks to the webmaster. Cheers.

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  269. It is ver good if one is doing work on the do follow blogs.Because it will get better ranking in the Google too. And it will have good traffic volume as well.

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  270. A very well constructed and written article, thank you for posting this! You have provided with the best opportunity to everybody which should NOT be misused by spamming.

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  271. These plugins are cementing WordPress as the CMS to end all CMS’s. Truly innovative and always progressive, moving the web forward. I plan on installing commentluv when my blog picks up pace as I feel it will curb spam comments.
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  273. keywordluv and commentluv are useful to get traffic in your site reaally. If you get a massive list,Thanks for using the keyword luv plugin. Keep spreading the luv

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  274. Many folks will never know that they receive a dofollow link from writing comments on your site using Keyword Luv but I think that you are the one who should be seriously trying to help them. And those online marketers who know how to make the distinction will happily come back to comment on your articles knowing that you repay them with a targeted dofollow backlink.

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  275. I am very thankful for this keywordluv plug-in as I can have more backlink with targeted anchor text.

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  276. Keyword luv is the best way to do a back link because it maintains your identity and also gives you a back link.

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  278. keyword luv really helps in building backlinks with a good anchor text, thanks for sharing with us

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  279. Currently in the process of rebranding our company website, and I’m imploring my boss to install keywordluv and commentluv on our blog. If it will generate more comments and activity, then where’s the downside?

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  280. I am new in the Internet Marketing Business and still confused as to how all of this works! You have given a great deal of information and I plan to implement it all. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I found it to be very helpful.

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  281. Thank you for the post, at first I had no idea what the plugin is about and used CommentLuv for some time. This is also a great way to increase the comments on your blog, as others will find it better for them. It’s a win-win, indeed.

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  283. This post couldn’t have come at a better time! I was looking all over on why and how we should use this.

    Thanks for the post!

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  284. Nice to hear you again nikita from modern lighting….there will be more bloggers who will start using keywordluv, let’s just encourage others. I myself do persuade my friends to use keywordluv. Anyway if they will just try it, they will not surely regret.

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  285. Keywordluv fills an importan void in blog commenting because blog owners hate keywords in name fields while commenters obviously want keywords. I think keywordluv makes everyone happy in this context..

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  286. I agree with you nikita from modern lighting. Because sometimes I am a blogger and sometimes I am a commenter. It really helps me so much. I do believe that there are many followers of this plug in and more in the future.

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  287. Like you Mini Bus hire for London, I am new to keywordluv. But on my first usage of this, I find it good. That’s why I frequently use this plug-in.

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  289. Completely agree when you say that keywordluv is good for everyone. If it wasn’t for this I would find it difficult to get links. Thanks

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  294. One thing I have noticed lately is that many blogs that you find that have keywordluv don’t accept or keep up with comments. The site will say it uses keywordluv and yet comments are closed or they have accepted no comments. To me that seems strange, but I have had a hard time lately finding decent blogs relative to the keywords on my site that have keywordluv and actually accept comments. When you do find one it’s like striking gold.

    Anyone else experiencing this?
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  297. I found this blog surfing the www looking for the “CommentLuv”-thing. Nice compilation you made here. I will now try to find other blogs to make some useful comments. Keep up your good work 😉

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  298. I love keyword luv and think it is a great advantage helping out both sides. You can write a anchor text in the name field and get ranked for your most important words that your trying to get found bye and that’s awesome. Thanks for the information, helpful info.

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  299. While these kind of plug-ins give you a do follow link the SEO help it gives you is very minimal especially when you consider how many comments have been made. We both know the amount of links on a page has a direct influence on how much link juice is passed.
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  300. Pleased to see that you are speaking up for the Keyword Luv plugin. It really does make a great deal of sense to use it.

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  301. Thank you very much! I am new to keywordluv and internet marketing for that matter, you broke it down to where
    a newbie could understand. Bookmarked and will be back soon to be further educated. I really appreciate your time and effort to explaining and helping people like me!!

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  302. Being new to Keywordluv and blogging this site has enabled me to have a greater undertanding of what you can acheive when using keywordluv. Thanks for the info and education. All then best

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  303. it is nice to read the names of the writers of comments and not just the Keywords. I also think, that these new plugins help much against spammers. Writing a name, the @ and a keyword might be more work than just writing the keyword into the name-field. I love keywordluv! 😉

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  304. Now I know that installing CommentLuv and registering your site allows you to suggest one of your last ten posts.
    Thank you for the information!

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  307. Hi,

    I am brand new to using keywrodluv. The blogs above have enabled me learn a whole lot more about it. Theres a lot more to it than I origninally thought.. Very much interested in this site and wil be visiting regularly.

    Thank for the blog!

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  309. Thanks for posting the keywordluv blogs by niche. This site is a truly valuable resource and I have happily bookmarked it.

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  310. Keywordluv and Do Follow is a great way to get people to read and contribute on your blog and also means that people can get the backlinks they need for webpages and drive more traffic to their sites too! I think it is important to moderate all comments to stop the spammers ruining it for everyone else! Although I have heard about a plugin called the ‘Anti Spambot plugin’, haven’t used it myself yet though. Thanks!

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  312. The article was helpful – but the multitude of comments have left me rather confused …. so time to do some more reading

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  314. Keywordluv is a fantastic plugin, people are more inclined to comment on a dofollow blog as they will get a backlink to their website and the blogger gets the comments they want so everyone benefits!

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  315. CommentLuv is amazing. I use it on all of my blogs and it really does increase the amount of REAL comments from readers, as there is an incentive for them to post. I like how you can post your name for a link. Thanks for the post.

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  316. Yes, keywordluv is a great plugin, I also really like commentluv as if I like a comment and the blog article from that person looks interesting I will read it.

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  317. I have read so much about these plugins and it only concludes to one thing – It’s very helpful since it brings more traffic to your site.

    I have just installed some of these to my wordpress site. Thanks.

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  318. One thing I like about the KeywordLuv movement is that it’s “on the level.” As someone who researches and comments on a lot of blogs to plug my anchor text, I like being able to comment on blogs without having to feel like I’m being sneaky or spammy by adding my link.

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  319. Keywordluv is a great plugin as it allows people to get the backlinks they need to their webpages and also makes people more likely to contribute their comments on your blogs!

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  320. Hi P.Johnson,

    I am doing my best to get bloggers and businesses to understand all the things that are fixed to make our success doubtful and what we should do about it. We can not allow the few wealthy elite’s greed prevent the many from enjoying a decent standard of living – and that is what we are doing when we believe their PR and cave into their threats to ban us from the search engines.

    There is more than one way to be found. If Big G throws us out of their search results we can still find each other through CommentLuv links between blogs and on Social Networks. If they start banning us we’ll just keep moving over and inventing new solutions.

    Business owners who can’t afford to take a stand yet because they rely too much on traffic from Big G can let those of us who don’t have to rely on search engine traffic speak for them until their business models change or we can send them enough business other ways.
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  321. hi,
    I have only recently started to use Keywordluv, to be honest I’m not all that sure if I am using it correctly?
    Finding keywordluv blogs was a trawling exercise. I do know that there is a search string you can use to for Google, does anybody know what it is?
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    • You’re using it correctly. Just remember to only link phrases that you believe someone is actually going to search on. I wasn’t sure running all the words together like that would work but I just tested in my favorite Google alternative search engine DuckDuckGo and it did.

      Leaving spaces between them will NOT work in most blogs because most bloggers limit you to two or three words. Always read the comment policy to find out what they do if you can find one.
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  322. Thanks for providing the useful information about the keywords luv and comments luv. I would like to share your topic.

    [Read the post about how to use KeywordLuv – need to use @ not from when you fill in the name field but it displays as from.]

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  323. Thanks for the excellent explanation of what keywordluv is and how to use it. I think it actually promotes good commenting on your blogs, because readers who use it know that it will be a do follow link, but they also know that the blog administrator will be very diligent in approving only appropriate comments/links and delete the obvious spam comments. I think keyword luv makes a better blog!

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    • Hi Tabby,

      There really isn’t any such thing as “nofollow” because if they’re indexed (which they are) they must have actually gotten followed by the crawler – right? That said, it is believed that MOST nofollow links do not improve your search engine position (serps) but SOME on highly trusted, high PageRank sites actually DO improve your serps.

      How is that for clear as mud? The best SEOs usually recommend focusing on dofollow links but getting some nofollow links too so that your linkbuilding is less likely to trigger suspicion by the search engines.
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      • It’s a better explanation than most, ironically 🙂

        I’d like to think i’ve become quite good at offsite SEO over the past year or so, although this one has always confused me, although i’ve been told not to worry too much about it either way, simply because if you’re doing plenty of SEO you’ll get both in the mix anyway.

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        • Hi Tabby,

          One key thing to remember is that many so-called SEO experts intentionally spread bad advice because it makes it easier for them to dominate the serps. If most of the world is doing what doesn’t work that makes it so much easier for the few that do what DOES work.

          The bottom line is Big G can slap, ban or outright censor anyone they so choose. One of my best posts showed 0 incoming links in Google even though there were backlinks in related posts on several top SEO sites and blog posts written by many highly respected SEO bloggers – UNTIL I complained about that specific page in the comments of this blog during the time when I first called out Akismet – and the next day Google showed backlinks to that post. Imagine that. I wonder how that could happen (she says sarcastically).

          Does G often go after specific sites? Usually only if you really annoy them or you compete with them (see the post I’ll put in CommentLuv about them slapping some of their strongest competitors in this most recent Farmer aka Panda Update).

          Google has attempted to censor some sites in the past such as when they attempted to censor Alex Jones InfoWars and prevent his InfoWars videos going viral, but if you have a large enough following willing to scream about it – as Alex did – they will often reverse what they did and then there will be a Google cover-up.

          Many more sites that get slapped are victims of “collateral damage” from Google tweaking their algorithms to target someone else. Anyone who ever took a programming class knows that there are often unintended consequences whenever you make changes.

          Internet users need to be aware that if they only use one search engine they are letting that entity control what they see and limit it to what they want you to see. That is precisely what has always been true of the major media (even though they go to lengths to provide the illusion that some media leans left and other leans right) – controlled by the few who use it to condition the masses to believe the illusions they want them to believe.

          The wealthy global elite loved it when they controlled all the media and they are quite unhappy that the Internet can be used to spread the truth and wake people up. That is why Net Neutrality is so important. If we allow them to they WILL take create an Internet of haves (their buddies and the few willing to shell out big bucks so their sites will still load) and have-nots (all those annoying useless eaters who don’t want them to legalize euthenasia who keep waking up their slaves).
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    • Hi Robert,

      CommentLuv and KeywordLuv have different purposes, but as a commentator you can use CommentLuv default links to link specific keywords or keyword phrases instead of KeywordLuv.

      CommentLuv shares either your default link or one of your last ten posts while KeywordLuv allows you to link your keywords from the name field and still put your name in that field without your name being linked.

      I added a keyword phrase to your comment so you could see what KeywordLuv does. Read How CommentLuv Grows Businesses and Blogs to better understand what CommentLuv does.

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  326. The only problem I find with Keywordluv is that it tends to atract a lot of spammers. To be honest if it is a manual comment hand written I dont mind if they use keywords I just hate it when you get a comment that says “nice blog” that for me takes the piss. Its obvious that is a SPAMMER I hate them I have had to shut multiple blogs because of these spammers it really bugs me. Even with Akismet spam filter you still get them I would try using a capture code to be fair that seems to help. Although these spammers are very clever and they can even get around the bloody capture code
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    • Hi Mike,

      There is little is life that does not have pros AND cons. I am working on crafting a commenting policy that covers all the ins and outs of dealing with spamming plus objectionable links.

      Akismet just doesn’t work so we now have a better antispam solution created by Andy Bailey from CommentLuv and named after this blog. There is a tab in the header for G.A.S.P. and that stands for GrowMap anti-spambot plugin.

      That page contains a three-step process that eliminates almost all spam. The spammers were probably not getting around the captcha code – they were using trackbacks that looked like comments. That is handled by step two of the process we use.
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  327. Very informative article about keyword luv and anchor text links, I agree it is very important to boost your SERP results. I really like this plugin for one simple reason it is very powerful ! Thank you for sharing this information.
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    • Hi Justin,

      This is an old post and I may not have known you back then or I just missed adding you. You say “sites” so if you would send me a list of all of them with your preferred anchor text I will add them to this post? I believe there are other posts where I recommend bloggers that you are not on but we can fix that too.
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  330. This is an excellent post! I am thrilled you support this movement. I feel that Google will start to increase value on keywordluv and commentluv blogs. Another thing is they are also shared more frequently.

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  332. I honestly think that Commentluv is a great way to attract good comments, which will really contribute to the discussion. With that said, we’ve been talking about it for a while now and most bloggers still look down upon it. I’d say that if you are commited to your blog, you’d have nothing to fear and commentluv can become a great tool.

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    • Yes and no. google now considers a ton of signals to consider when deciding how to rank websites. I have a 1 year old domain with two pages that I dont care about that only has two links but now has a PR of 3.

      On the other hand, Google has been public about using PR for how deep and frequent they crawl a site. This would be useful for large sites with hundreds and thousands of internal pages.

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  334. It never was very supported but the creator will usually reply. Why do you think it is not supported? Has yours quit working? If yes do you know why, i.e., did you upgrade to a new level of WordPress and that caused it?

    If KeywordLuv does stop working or you want an alternative (or to use both) look at CommentLuv default links explained in the post I’ll put in CommentLuv in this reply.
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  335. Great selection of keywordluv resources – I love the plugin. It actually prevents spam by giving commentators a chance to leave their real name and keyword. Just make sure you remember to include your name otherwise you will find that the comment is usually rejected.

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  336. Wow, KeywordLuv is great! I am glad link building is being addressed in a way where spam and comments can stop competing for each other and rather coexist. The internet evolves so rapidly!

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  341. I think keywordluv is a great plugin as it really benefits both sides, the blogger and the commenter. I do moderate all my comments to stop the spamming but I have seen that there is a plugin called the anti-spambot plugin, I haven’t used it myself but it is supposed ot be good. Will have to give it a try.

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  342. Keywordluv is a good plugin to have, providing you moderate the comments to stop the spam! Also it is a great way for people with websites, to be able to get backlinks, which will increase their traffic! People tend to contribute more on a blog if they know it has the keywordluv plugin installed!

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  343. I want to thank you that you have enlightened me about keywordluv and commentluv. I have encountered so many blogs with this plug-in but some of them are nofollow and it breaks my heart. 🙁 I plan to make my own blog with this plug-in, hopefully it will be added to your list someday. But for now, just let me give you a big warm hug for this! 🙂

    [Hi Gina. I hate to break your heart, but you know that blogs like mine can not link to sites like the one you used in this comment. If you have any non-adult, non-pharma, non-gambling related sites your links are welcome here.]

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  345. Thanks for the list of sites that use KeyworLuv. I just found out about KeywordLiv and CommentLuv. I think that they are great plugins. They make people want to leave comments that are informative and helpful to the post. I am so tired of moderating purely spam comments. So I look forward to reading some real comments that add something to my own blog posts.

    Thanks

    Gary

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  347. both keywordluv and commentluv are great tools. However, they also have their own advantages and disadvantages. It is up to our personal preferences which one to use on our blogs. thanks for sharing this post.

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  349. Gail, thank you so much for stopping by my site today. I’m getting the hang of all of this slowly but surely. Now my blog is Do Follow with keywordluv and of course commentluv.

    I don’t think I fall into any of the categories when I skimmed through them. Maybe general since I don’t just post parenting, I don’t just post blogging, I don’t just post reviews, stick me wherever you’d like. 🙂

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  350. Having a dofollow blog is very rewarding as it makes people want to contribute more and everyone wins! With the keywordluv plugin I think it is important to moderate all comments or install a spam filter as we don’t want the spammers ruining it for the rest of us!

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  351. Not sure if my earlier comment posted correctly. Accidentally stumbled on these concepts and seem to be quite interesting. Easily a very effective way of building backlinks. Like it has been voiced above numerous times the risk of the site subject to excessive spamming is very high. Nevertheless these are welcome tools for users looking for backlinks. Do these work on Blogger platform as I use blogger to to host my blog.

    Thank You

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  352. Hello – I more or less accidentally stumbled upon this concept and I see the benefits are good for both parties involved. Very interesting concept. Does these tools run on the Blogger platform? Would definitely keep visiting this site for more tips.

    Thank you

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  353. Its one of the best site that i ever seen. You have been shared best knowledge which is really helpful for everyone & I must say about your management of site is fabulous & fantastic. Hats off to webmaster.

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  354. Having a dofollow blog is very rewarding as it makes people want to contribute more and everyone wins! With the keywordluv plugin I think it is important to moderate all comments or install a spam filter as we don’t want the spammers ruining it for the rest of us!

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  355. We’ve recently switched to DoFollow and keywordLuv and it’s been a wholely positive experience so far. I think it is only fair to reward people for taking the time to visit your site and read your material 😉

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  358. Hi Thanks for adding keyword luv it is byfar one of the most useful plugins I came across.
    By the way I dont have a auto blog so you rest assure I am a real fitness instructor with a real website : )

    I do wonder though as I am still new to all this seo business will google ever block this links and stop the link juice from these??
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    • I don’t think they’d block links or cause them to be nofollow if the blog is using a follow plugin, however pagerank changes over time (interesting to note this post used to have a pagerank of 4 and now it is down to 2), plus having many many outgoing links on one page lessens the effect of the “link juice”.

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  359. Commentluv and Keywordluv are really useful for blog owners. But most of the times spammers abuse them by leaving nonsense comments. On the other side commentluv also help other bloggers to see it’s latest post.

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  360. I think more people should use the keywordluv plugin, it certainly makes a difference from not having it as people don’t tend to contribute as much as when you do have it. It’s really useful to get backlinks to web pages and increase traffic. and the bloggers get their comments they need! Thanks

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  361. I think both the KeywordLuv and CommentLuv are great plugins.They do encourage people to leave comments and increase readership. But the problem is getting quality comments as well as going through each comment to weed out those spammy ones.

    I suppose you will always have to take the good with the bad and make the best out of it. 😉

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  362. Serious resource! I am the same in regards to reccomending “Keywordluv” and I am also a big advocate of “commentluv”!

    I love the theme your are using, is it Thesis?

    Again thanks for the resources, there is a ton of information in here on how to find heaps of valuable Dofollow” backlinks!

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  363. Hallo Leute hab gerade diesen Blog gefunden

    sind ja super viele Einträge so wie Informationen hier!

    MfG 🙂
    Mario Hamburg

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  365. I love the keywordluv plugin as it allows people to get the backlinks they need and increases your page ranking. I think it is important to moderate the comments or use a spamfilter to not get too many spam comments!

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  366. Keywordluv and Commentluv are very very useful plugins for blog commentators. Keywordluv allows us to comment with link to our anchored text which can be any thing our keyword also.

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  367. I am just starting to take notice of the number of people that are advocating do-follow in larger numbers. I hope it’s an actual movement that will continue and grow and not die out.

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  368. You have no IDEA just what a big fan of “keywordluv” I am…i am in luv with it…you could say. I will use it for all my personal and business blogs. I think it gets people more fired up about your posts, since their say has more of a say. If you know what I mean. Great site, and post.

    SHEILA

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  369. Yes, it is a great plugin, I also use it on my blog.
    Also: congrats Mike, You have the nr1 spot on google for the keyword “this site uses keywordluv”. I just found you in this way.

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  370. Früher habe ich die Wichtigkeit, sich jemand den Namen und dann das Stichwort Wunder aber es machte Sinn für mich nach der Lektüre Ihrer Post. Ich gehe jetzt zur Anwendung, was ich hier zu meiner nächsten blogs.Thanks gelernt!

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  371. Excellent post. I’ve been going to alot of blogs leaving comments for exactly the same reasons. I hoping it helps out my seo; it also enabled me to find some really good blogs with great info. When linking to my website, should I link to my home page or a more relavent page?

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  372. For keywordluv blogs I always put a name at the front. Otherwie your comment looks like a common spambot message, which is definitely not what you want to achieve;). You put some effort into this comment after all.

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  373. I used to wonder the importance of putting someone’s name first and then the keyword but it made sense to me after reading your post. I’m now going to apply what I’ve learned in here to my next blogs.Thanks!

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  374. I don’t have enough courage at this stage to use keywordluv. I do however use Lucias Linky love and commentluv. I encourage users to become part of my communities by giving followed links to those who have added to the conversation. My arbitrary rule is 5 quality comments and you are followed.

    Giving Keyword rich links would attract the Ed Dales of the world, Their sole objective is to create as many back links as possible. My objective is to create quality back links by adding value to other blogs.

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  377. @Eric,you can use spam filters to reduce your workload and allow to pass a juice link after 2 or 3 comments .Try this one, it is working for me.

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  378. I’m still honestly having second thoughts about using Keywordluv because I’ve heard so many people complain about the spam but I do use Commentluv. Maybe I need one more convincing post like this to get me to install KL. I wish all bloggers will just play nice and not post spam!

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  379. Site owners should be using the Luv plugins on their site. It has many benefits to offer. It’s also easier to gain quality comments that will add interest to the discussion and adds fresh content to the site.

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  380. KeywordLuv and CommentLuv are two of the best plugins that I use to get more comments on my site. But, there is a downside, you have to spend a lot of time moderating cheesy comments like “Great site!”. When used properly though, it benefits both the commenters and the website. 🙂

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  382. Wow, thank you for providing a very useful resource. I am relatively new to business blogging, and was kind of at a lost for what to do the first couple of times I encountered a blog with KeywordLuv. I am going to get this app for my wordpress blog right now!

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  384. I did not know this Comment Luv thing. It is really handy to help each other and to let people comment more on your blog. Definitely, I will need to install this in my blogs for sharing with others too.
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  385. This is the best list of keyword luv blogs on the internet, wow. Great compilation of some very useful sites, thank you Growmap. I go to WassupBlog a lot and never knew they offered keyword luv, nice.

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  386. Never heard about this before. Thanks! For me, it is much better than comment luv as we don’t have register before using it. For Comment luv, we need to register if we want to share the older post

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  388. Couldn’t agree more, This post captured my attention right from the start till the end. Must admit I didn’t know about CommentLuv or KeywordLuv before reading this. Very well written and thank you for sharing such valuable information.

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  389. This post inspired me to donate to Keyword Luv, what a great tool and what a great way to actually motivate people to read articles and get a discussion going. It’s a win win. I think CommentLuv is the same thing as KeywordLuv, if I am not mistaken. Could be wrong thoug.h.

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  391. I’ve just discovered Keyword Luv recently and I must say I am Luving it 😉 The above article is very helpful in providing one with a better insight as to just how it works and how to use it for greatest effect. Worth the read.

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  393. KeywordLuv is very useful to make good quality backlinks. This post provides good information about CommentLuv and KeywordLuv.

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  394. I had to put back nofollow tag because i didn’t like how everyone is just using keywords. Im gonna implement this if its possible on blogspot blogger so that people can leave their actual names too.
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  395. Thanks for the post. The DoFollow blog lists was especially helpful. I’ve also been a fan of commentLuv for a long time. It’s awesome.

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  396. Excellent post especially the tip you give for changing the Comment Luv link. I did read an interesting article that shows you how to get backlinks to your last article on places like GoArticles, Ezine Articles, etc. I’ll try and find it and update (unless you already know the one I’m talking about).

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  397. Keyword luv is a great way to share and promote good sites while leaving a good comment behind. I have noticed a lot of keywordluv users are now saying no keywords.

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  398. I have just enabled my keywordluv and commentluv on my site. For those of you who wants to build relevant seo backlinks, you can always try to visit my page as well. Comments are welcome. 🙂

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  399. Love what you are doing here with CommentLuv & KeywordLuv. It’s great to see you moving these links to the the main page. Great site, keep up the good work 😉

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  400. I discovered KeywordLuv a few months ago and have found it to be a quite effective way to get stronger keyword backlinks to my site. I have even implemented it on the company blog and have found it to be a great way to build content!

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  402. Is it just me or did the KeywordLuv movement die out a bit? It has been a long time since I have been on a keyworldLuv blog and I must admit I had to scratch my head before I remembered the syntax again. Perhaps I am just getting old 😛

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    • Hi Peter,

      KeywordLuv has always had a very small following and many of us still use and offer it. I claimed the Twitter account @KeywordLuv and am probably one of the major promoters of using it.

      Tristan has registered the keywordluv.com domain and will be adding content related to KeywordLuv blogs there. We may combine the lists of KeywordLuv enabled blogs that we know of and publish them there.

      We’re all getting older. 🙂
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  403. I seriously honored you for sharing this great post to us. I haven’t enough knowledge about the world of blogging but somehow through continuous studying and reading articles related blogging, I am confident enough that I may know more ideas about it. Thanks!

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  405. Very informative post about dofollow and keywordluv. Keywordluv is one of my favourite plugins as it allows people to get the backlinks they need for their webpages in order to drive more traffic to them. Also a great way to have people contribute to your blogs.

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  406. I think KeywordLuv is a win-win for everyone involved. It motivates people to actually read articles and give thoughtful responses vs. just being spammy and leaving a “good post!” review in hopes of getting a link. If the bloggers can handle the traffic and new comments and sift through the spam, it really makes the entire blogging experience better. It’s just a shame it has come to the point where people are so spammy over no-follow links. And I am bookmarking this post to go through the other KeywordLuv blogs!

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  407. KeywordLuv means social blogging. You let your pagerank shine on other blogs / websites! Keep doing it and other websites will give you something in return!

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  408. Thanks for installing keywordluv in your blog.I like keywordluv because it gives the flexibility to add name and keyword both and that is how a blog owner don’t need to reply to a ‘tv aeriel’ instead he can talk to john from ‘tv aeriel’.That is superb.

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  410. Yes, keywordlove is great for those horrible spam comments. I’ve had much better results myself since installing it. I’ve not tried commentluv – what’s the difference?

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  413. I think you will like the results from making your blog a dofollow we have great luck with our blogs since making the switch.

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  414. I’ve read a few blogs on KeywordLuv this week in attempt to find out exactly how the process works. Up to now I learned a little, but I must say this is perhaps the most comprehensive explanation I have come across. Sums it up completely and also goes in to more detail behind the reasoning (which I was struggling to understand)…..if only I’d used the correct search terms a week ago, I could have saved myself some time!
    Thanks for sharing the knowledge!

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    • Thank you, James,

      I do my best to explain complex ideas and include a clear idea why they are worth doing. I am sure that many bloggers who use KeywordLuv still don’t know why building links is important to ALL Web site owners including blogs. I wish they would read my post about Building Traffic Using Anchor Text.
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  415. I also have a dofollow CommentLuv Blog. Had it for about a month and i have to be honest all i seem to get is irrelevant spam posts. I am sticking with it mind you as i do have faith that long term a natrual flow of link juice has to be good.

    [Edited the URL in your comment to go directly to your blog and not to your blog feed. If you want more visitors it is best to use your blog URL and not your feed URL. That could be why you haven’t had more new comments – most will just leave the feed page because they can’t tell enough about your blog to know if they want to subscribe.]
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    • Hi Andy,

      The best way to attract high quality readers and commentators who are usually other bloggers is to go out visiting CommentLuv blogs. Try searching on photographers, wedding photography, northampton and any other keywords of interest in the CommentLuv search engine.

      Find posts that interest you and leave comments that include your most related post or page. See How CommentLuv Works and register your site first.

      You might also want to set up some CommentLuv default links so you can build links using your most relevant anchor text because that allows you to always have your best wording available when commenting – even if it isn’t one of your last ten posts.
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  416. Just like most of the people who posted their comments here, yeah, im quite irritated with the spam comments.. i havent experienced having spam comments using keywordLuv though—but i hope not. lol.

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  418. Thanks for posting this! not enough people realise the benefits of it. If you couple Keywordluv with a CAPTCHA system too then you will kill the bots dead as well, if you use something like reCaptcha then you also help do something usefull, helping to digitise books.

    Both are brilliant little plugins!

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  419. I always commenting on DoFollow blogs.I never used the CommentLuv keyword for it. But thanks toi you for giving such a great info. Very essential from SEO point of view. Hope to see a great work in future!!

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  420. I do think keywordluv is the best commenting plugin as it helps us to use our keyword and also our real name at the same time, but sometimes it’s hard to figure out spammers that are posting bad links into our website with this commenting plugin 🙂
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  421. CommentLuv and KeywordLuv plug-ins are really good & give equal benefit to both blogger as well as commentator.

    I personally think that commentator should get benefit from the blog in the form of back link. Because he is the only who keep the post update regularly by his comments which is very important to make the post popular.

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  422. I always liked commentluv and keywordluv for their dofollow attributes as it gives a good platform to promote blogging and post quality comments

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  423. This is definitely a great resource when it comes to the keyword luv plugin! I have just recently installed in on my blog and have seen much more interactivity since.
    As with anyone spam is always a problem so I will have to try out the Growmap plugin right now I am only using Aksimet and that does not catch all of the spam messages.

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  424. This is an awesome explanation of how keyword luv works. I’ve only just started using it. Thanks for the in depth info!

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  427. Hello,

    The thing about commenting and spam is that there is no consensus about what spam is. I know that I have many readers who originally found my blog seeking a dofollow site or one that uses KeywordLuv while backlinking. Does that automatically make their comments spam? I do not believe it does.

    Some bloggers only want their “friends” to get links from their blog but how do you know if you’re their “friend” or a spammer? That is why many of us are active primarily in our CommentLuv circles where we know who welcomes us and who doesn’t.

    One sad loser in the whole “comment spam” issue are new commentators who don’t know that a short comment containing a sincere compliment is going to be automatically seen as spam. How could they know?

    Since this is a teaching blog and I want new Internet users and bloggers to feel welcome I am far more lenient on what comments I will approve here. I prefer to teach how to leave better comments so commentators aren’t left wondering why their comments disappear.
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  428. Key word luv is such a good idea. Genius! After all, many people want to leave comments on other blogs to build backlinks, and to do that effectively you need to have the keyword as the anchor text. But if you put your keyword in as your name, in most cases it screams out “Spammer”. And keyword luv solves that.

    Genius.
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  429. Hey Andy, a plugin better than Aksimet for spam? I would love to check that one out. Spam takes so much time to go through each day, anything that helps makes that go easier, is a great thing…I love keyword luv and wish most sites would use it. Looks less spammy, but still can use keywords. too great!
    Thanks!

    Karen

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    • Hi Karen,

      That is certainly an interesting niche product you have there. I’m sure anyone that ever wanted to know how to get rid of lice without using the usual super-harsh treatments will be highly interested.

      While Andy wrote the GrowMap anti-spambot plugin he doesn’t answer comments here. I have written many posts for CommentLuv so I’m sure that causes some confusion about who is where.

      This plugin is a blessing for bloggers and saves me so much time. I’m tempted to Tweet thank you to Andy every time I log in and don’t have a sea of spam to slog through facing me.

      If you love KeywordLuv do check out CommentLuv default links. You can use them to turn the CommentLuv field in any CommentLuv-enabled blog into the anchor text links you need.
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  431. The more I think about the differences between relationship-building comments and spammy comments it pretty much comes down to quality. IMHO link building is a good thing for us all provided we do it while actually sharing in the discussion.

    I for one don’t enjoy commenting for the sake of link building and I do enjoy link building in the course of commenting.

    [Note: James, there was no valid URL in your comment or I would have used keywordluv to link to your desired keyword phrase.]

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    • Hi James,

      As more and more blogs in every niche become available and the number of blogs that are dofollow and offer CommentLuv and KeywordLuv grows, the issue of spammy comments will decrease because link builders will be able to visit more sites that are in their own niche.

      I believe what we will see is many overlapping CommentLuv communities of related sites. That will allow us to build relationships and links at the same time.
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    • Hi Deepak,

      Thank you for sharing my blog with your HubSpot Account Manager. Link building has gotten much easier because more people understand the importance of small businesses and bloggers working together for the greater good.

      Have you considered writing guest posts about lead generation? That is a very important topic for many that could use more good advice and visibility. I manage content across many marketing blogs and can also use more quality content to publish. If you or your guest bloggers are interested please use the information on the contact tab in this blog to reach me.
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    • Hi Alex,

      Check out my post about CommentLuv that I’ll feature in this reply. It has even more information on how to use CommentLuv. Beyond that, use the CommentLuv search engine to locate other CommentLuv enabled blogs about photography.

      By commenting in related blogs your links are more valuable but more importantly, the blogs can share their readers among themselves. You can start with Stephanie’s photography blog. Since she is also a writer and woodworker it may be different than the typical photo blog you’ll see.
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  436. Danke für so eine informative Führung! Ich habe finden es ziemlich schwierig, lohnt Backlinks zu bauen und ich fühle, dass die Konzentration auf KeywordLuv Blogs kann die Antwort sein. Ich habe eine Frage aber-wenn man versucht, große Mengen von Backlinks durch Blog kommentieren zu bauen, wie ist es sogar möglich, eine einzigartige aand entsprechenden Kommentar für jeden schreiben, ohne dass Sie alle Ihre Zeit?!

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  437. this is a great plugin.. it really helps fight spam by giving marketers an option to post relevant blog comments

    Thanks for sharing this plugin and giving everyone a backlink

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  438. It is so nice to find people who support keywordluv. It works well as long as everyone adds to the article appropriately and add something to the conversation if they can.

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  439. This is a great insight into the future of blogging, we’re looking to get one up and running on our site and will definately be using this

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  440. I’ve always made my blogs dofollow ever since I heard of the actual term. But I’ve only just recently learnt about CommentLuv and KeywordLuv – hence the visit to your post : ) To gain more information about these terms that I’ve seen sporadically around the blogosphere, and that I’ve decided to look into. I’m still in the research phase right now, however, it’s highly likely that I’ll end up installing these on my blogs, as I am a firm believer of helping each other out with link love : )

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  441. keyword luv is a great plugin for both the blogger and the commenter as it allows the commenter to gain backlink, and for the blogger to get lots of feedback for his posts.

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  442. Thank you so much for all this information about keywordluv. It is an excellent tool so people can put their name on a link and get a little anchorage.

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  443. You’ve just got to love keywordlv plugin and it’sa real win: win for bloggers and it allows me to spend time reading interesting blogs and it keeps blogs personal. Thanks for sharing I will check it out.

    D.

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  444. Thanks for the in depth post on KeywordLuv, it certainly looks like a great plugin, I can imagine you garner a lot of traffic for your #1 listing for “site using keywordluv” – congrats!

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  448. I have had an experience with spam comments (more than 100 per day!!) and it becomes very frustrating. AT times even good comments get spammed.

    These two plugins are great… it reduces a lot of hassle that people used to go through. Now it legally offers a platform to everyone to interact with each other + get link juice.

    Keywordluv is a good thing for blogs.. this helps streamline thw hwole process better. Before marketers used to spam all the blog posts to get backlinks – with keywordluv i am sure there will be drop in this.

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  450. I am totally loving this keywordluv plugin, it helps us get the backlinks that we need in order for our website to get more traffic and it also helps increase pagerank! Thanks !

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  452. I really like the KeywordLuv plug-in, but I don’t like that you put the anchor-text in the name-textbox. This is unintuitive 🙁

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  455. Hey Growmap,

    Thanks for this post and the useful ideas you have included in it, I am sure to use them quite effectively. I havent long known about these plugins or how to utilise them properly. Also many thanks for your very helpful list. I shall put it to use immediately!

    I have only just found your blog but it’s definitely and interesting read, how long has it been around for?

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  456. Scott KWL also has worked so well for me it has made a lot of my blogs much better, people tend to leave relevant comments, so my site keeps growing with unique content….

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  458. I was adamant at using keywordluv before but good thing a friend helped me on how to use it. But after some weeks, another pal told about this commentluv… I tried commenting using “@” on it but it is of no use… what is then the diff between the two???

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  459. It is great to see bloggers that are willing to reward people for commenting on their blog and it can be a great way for new bloggers to get that following started when they first start.

    “I highly recommend going beyond exchanging comments to linking to and writing about each other’s sites.” That is a great suggestion and I think more people should beware of that, kind of like taking it to the next step.

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  460. By reading the comments on your site, I learned more about the Luv plug ins and about making your site do follow. Thanks for sharing this information to us. Lots of bloggers will learn from this. Thanks!

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  461. Thanks for such a comprehensive article. And I will definitely be checking out the resources by niche, very helpful indeed.

    As to your lengthy reply a few comments above, there is no way that dofollow harms a site in terms of SEO, I agree. Otherwise there is no way that sites like bluehatseo would be dofollow, he knows his stuff too.
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  462. Wow so many comments. It’s good to see that many people are now using these useful tools. Thanks for sharing this very vital information that will help us understand more what really these plug ins do.

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  463. Thanks for such an informative guide! I’ve been finding it quite difficult to build worthwhile backlinks and I feel that concentrating on keywordluv blogs may be the answer. I do have a question though- when trying to build large quantities of backlinks through blog commenting, how is it even possible to write a unique aand relevant comment for each without taking up all your time?!
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  464. This is a a really useful blog – thanks for sharing this with us. Its a massive peice of work and you are obvioulsy committed to enabling commenters link keywords to their backlinks -not soemthing every blog-owner would support or endorse. I can see why you are doing this – and its interesting – so I book mark this in delicous and keep coming back to see what you are up to. and I will use this technique wisely!

    Thanks again

    Matthew

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  467. You are awesome. Thank you for the great information. This is the best info I’ve read on KeywordLuv. Wishing all the success.

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  468. This is the best information I’ve read on using KeywordLuv. Looks like I have some changes to make in the way I do things. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

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    • Hi Jim,

      I had many years of German in high school and college and understand more Spanish than I can speak so I can tell you that was written by someone who native language is not English or someone who used a translation program.

      If you know people who are trying to learn another language it is common to use words that wouldn’t be used by native speakers and also to put words in a different order. In English most sentences use noun first while in many other languages verbs are used first.

      While many bloggers delete comments from those whose English isn’t correct, I believe that anyone willing to try to communicate in another language should be applauded – not ridiculed – especially when so few Americans can speak or write English properly. Even those of use who are pretty good at it make our share of mistakes. 🙂
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  472. With comluv and keywordluv everybody wins, and that’s why I like it. One gets unique content through the comment, and the other one gets a backlink. Everybody’s happy.

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  473. After reading you article I can now see where I was going wrong with using the anchor text effectively. You have to make sure its the main keyword and correct URL, however what do you think about varying the anchor text and how it effects seo ranking?

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    • Hi John,

      You have to use @ and not from between your name and keywords. I’ll fix the link for you. I need to ask Derek to edit how that displays because you aren’t the first intelligent person to use from instead because that is what is displayed.

      Each page is treated as a separate entry in a search engine but each search may be equated, i.e. CNA training and training CNA might be seen as the same.

      What I recommend doing is focusing on one or two phrases to each primary landing page until you get onto the first page of the search engines and then working on others. Read the post I’ll put in CommentLuv in this reply for more details on building traffic through correct use of anchor text.
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    • Hi Joel,

      Even blogs that are nofollow and don’t use CommentLuv or KeywordLuv have spammers. Many of those do not have any real commentators or regular readers but they still get spam.

      We use DoFollow, CommentLuv, KeywordLuv and a custom anti-spambot plugin written by the developer of CommentLuv.

      Used together we have lively discussions in our comments and attract businesses and SEO workers that can use the backlinks and end up becoming regular readers.

      Many regular commentators are bloggers who have powerful Social Networking accounts on Twitter, Facebook and usually several other major Social Media platforms and who know how to use anchor text.

      As readers go, they are among the most valuable because they will comment, add valuable tips from their own experience, and link to and share your content.
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