Trying Out CommentLuv Premium

I decided to spend a little extra money on my business the other day. I’m careful about doing that, as there are plenty of things out there that aren’t worth spending money on. There are also many things that are very much so worth spending money on. I bought CommentLuv Premium, and I’m hoping it will be worth the money. I think it will be.

The nice thing about CommentLuv free or premium, is that it encourages people to comment on your blog. The free version is a good way to try things out to see if you like the kinds of comments you get for having it on your site. It’s easy to download and install through your WordPress plugin control panel.

The premium version gives you more control over when visitors are allowed to get a list of their posts to include. You can give them incentives to tweet, +1 or Facebook like your posts, that is, if they do one of those things, they can get a list of their 10 most recent posts to choose from, rather than just the one most recent, or you can give them a dofollow link rather than nofollow. Or both, of course.

For yourself, you can even choose your favorite posts to share when you comment on CommentLuv enabled blogs. This is nice when you’re taking the time to reply to people, and perhaps it’s not the most recent post you want to promote.

It also allows people to add their Twitter user name to their posts if you so choose, and allows keywords in the user’s name to be the link rather than their own names, much as KeywordLuv does.

You also get Growmap Anti Spam Plugin (G.A.S.P). The basics of this are pretty simple, it adds a checkbox that human visitors will see and need to check. It also can be set to check for post permalinks for trackbacks or block certain types of trackbacks. Depending on your settings, you may still have to go through a number of spam comments on your site, but it’s a way to control spam that doesn’t rely on hoping that legitimate users have been caught in the wrong database, as happens with many other spam blocking plugins.

Will all this definitely increase the number of legitimate comments and visitors to your website. Maybe. That depends on a lot of factors, and you do have to be aware that some human spammers seek out CommentLuv blogs for that extra link. You have to decide if it’s going to be worth the potential trouble.

I think it will be worth it for me. I can’t say that any changes have happened yet, but I just bought this plugin the other day. It takes time for changes to happen. But I am glad to have made the change from free CommentLuv to premium. Yes, I am promoting this as an affiliate, one more benefit you get if you buy the plugin. It’s an unlimited license, so you don’t have to buy a copy for every blog you use it on, so long as you own or administrate that blog.