Blog commenting - I’m a fan of the approach. I love blog commenting mainly for two reasons:
- It helps me connect with people in the blogosphere - the connections I establish are genuine, good quality connections - not something that occurs for the sake of a mutual benefit.
- Secondly, blog commenting works much like guest blogging. I can do a free advertising of my website (promote your blog). You just have to make sure you voice your opinion in an authoritative manner and leave insightful, useful comments.
Right, now that I love blog commenting a lot, I leave quite some comments on other blogs in my niche. I focus on high quality blogs that publish high quality useful content - I don’t care if the blog has a Page Rank or a particular Alexa Rank or anything else. If I find the content to be useful, and if I have something to say I jump in and voice my opinion.
I don’t leave comments for the sake of commenting. If I don’t feel like saying anything after I read the post, I simply leave. I must admit that I have cut down a lot in terms of commenting recently due to lack of time. But I still do believe in and do blog commenting.
Since I am a fan of blog commenting I make sure I treat my blog commenters nicely as well. Commentluv premium is the plugin I installed on my blog to reward my commenters and treat them nicely. I love its features and I was and still I am a very active promoter/affiliate of the plugin.
I was using the plugin on all of my blogs for over 2 years (the free Commentluv plugin for a while and then the Premium version of the plugin).
So what did I like about Commentluv plugin?
First things first, the plugin bundles 8 plugins in itself. That means you can install Commentluv premium plugin on your blog and you won’t need 7 other plugins. The features that those 7 other plugins provide are not just additional gimmicks to promote Commentluv sales, but they are highly useful to bloggers, truly.
For instance, GASP - fights spam and ReplyMe sends email to the commenter whenever his/her comment gets a reply. I don’t have to talk about spam protection. But ReplyMe’s feature is pretty cool since it helps increase traffic and repeat visits!
The next cool thing about using Commentluv is that your blog will get listed on many places in the name of “Commentluv enabled blogs”. Ana Hoffman from Traffic Generation Cafe has one such list with high quality blogs. You earn those back links, nofollow or dofollow, it doesn’t matter, but your blog gets a very good exposure. Apart from this Commentluv also has its search engine so you can search for any keyword in your niche and find out the sites that have Commentluv plugin enabled.
So there is a great chance that your blog will get a lot of traffic simply because you have Commentluv plugin installed.
And, the key feature of Commentluv plugin, as everyone knows, is the ability to leave a link to the last published post if you leave a comment on a blog that has Commentluv plugin installed (and has enabled this feature). This is where Commentluv really got popular. As a blogger you can treat your blog commenters nicely by giving them an incentive - a link back to their recent blog post (or a blog post of their choice, if they are a premium Commentluv user).
You can call it back link building. Or simply free advertising. It just works. People who leave comments on Commentluv enabled blogs do get clicks from the links to their blog posts they leave via Commentluv. This alone stands as a BIG reason for people to search for Commentluv enabled blogs for commenting. It is certainly a win-win for both the blog owner and the commenter.
So why did I I leave Commentluv and move to Disqus comments?
So far the post praises Commentluv premium plugin, right? So why did I then leave such an awesome plugin and choose to change to Disqus commenting system? That too, on all of my blogs?
Did I change my mind about Commentluv? Nope! I STILL LOVE Commentluv plugin (especially the premium version) and I actively promote it 
The change is just my personal choice which is based on the current state of my blog(s). Let me explain.
Remember, I told you about the ability to leave a link to a blog post of choice when you leave a comment on Commentluv enabled blogs? That drives a lot of people to link drop.
I loved Adrienne’s post: The real truth about blog commenting - Although the post is not directly related to what I am talking about, it makes a lot of sense in the context of what I am talking here. Commenting is still perceived as a link building technique. And Commentluv plugin encourages that aspect.
I don’t blame Commentluv for that. For every great invention, there is always a group of people who abuse it! While there is a big group of people genuinely leaving blog comments and utilising the Commentluv’s link feature, there is also a cunning group of link droppers.
They leave comments which look like genuine ones but they are not.
How am I SO confident and how am I able to say this boldly? Coz I KNOW for sure. When I switched to Disqus, those cunning link droppers stopped leaving comments on my blog - So now you know how I know
Of course I am not the only one to find this out. Harleena writes about a similar experience in this post.
So here are the main reasons that forced me to switch to Disqus comments …
Comment spam
Even though Commentluv had an add-on plugin called Anti Backlinker (ABL - only for premium users), I still had to do a lot of work to eliminate spam. The ABL module helps with blacklisting emails, domains, ips and much more. But my fingers got tired of including all those spammy emails to blacklist - that was indeed a tedious task.
And I got about 1000 spam comments PER DAY on Problogging Success alone. The other sites got relatively lesser spam - but that was still too much to handle and cleanup.
Having to deal with link droppers
As I mentioned earlier, link droppers do exist and they exist in larger numbers than you think! Those people leave comments as if they are genuine comments. But their comments are not genuine - some just hijack your post for the sake of dropping their links. And as I said earlier, you can identify them in situations where you remove Commentluv from your blog and they stop commenting on your posts.
Low quality comments
Just in relation with what I told before I started receiving low quality comments on my blog. Now, I don’t blame or point fingers on all Commentluv users - but I DID get a lot of low quality comments mainly from people who wanted to drop their links.
I consider blog comments as part of the content and I could not tolerate low quality comments on my blog.
So I decided to try out a different commenting system
Why not just remove Commentluv and continue using the default WordPress commenting system? I could have done that but I wanted to treat my commenters nicely. I wanted to give them something extra.
So I researched a lot. I monitored various big and small sites in my niche and I saw bloggers were using Disqus as an alternate to the default WordPress commenting system - I mean, the next to the default commenting system, bloggers are using Disqus comments.
So I researched a lot and found quite some pros and cons about Disqus. It was pretty hard to come to a conclusion, but I really had to take a decision.
Disqus has quite some pros…
- It gives the blog a pretty professional look.
- The quality of the comments increased a lot.
- I thought I’d lose the quality comments and that the number of comments would reduce after I removed Commentluv. But to my surprise I found that the number did not decrease alarmingly (even though some link droppers left - my blog was left with quality comments). This also taught me that Disqus has a very vibrant community as well.
- Disqus gives users more options to represent themselves. If they prefer logging in via their social account, they can do so.
- Disqus displays a very rich user profile (displays when you click on image of the commenter) - this helps with branding.
- Reduces spam quite efficiently. I get no spam to rarely one or two spam comments a day. Most of the days it is no spam.
- It helps me manage my comments efficiently. I can login to my Disqus account and moderate the comments of ALL my blogs in one place.
- As a commenter I can see all of the comments I left throughout the blogosphere in my Dashboard.
- I can connect with the Disqus community inside my Disqus dashboard - I can follow commenters. I am using this feature recently to connect with like-minded people and I also discover content by following where they are leaving comments. I personally find this feature very useful.
Now, the cons
Of course Disqus comments is not perfect.
- The major con is that it requires people to login to leave a comment. I know many commenters will fly off seeing this. I used to be this way. I used to neglect blogs that have Disqus. But then I started to comment also on Disqus enabled blogs and I found that I got a lot of traction. But its me. There are many people who hate to have to login to leave a comment! This is a feature of Disqus to help block spam and it works really efficiently. But I do understand that it will annoy some of my readers.
- The move to Disqus was a bit rough. I did not lose any comments but I had to make more than one attempts to get it done neatly.
- Disqus does not support/recognize Gravatar which means the comments I exported from the WordPress to Disqus do not display user avatars - which I still don’t like.
- It takes a little while for the comments to load after the page load. Even though this does not affect page speed, some mobile users say that they have problems in seeing comments. I am testing this.
So… to conclude
This was a tough decision for me. But it is worth it. And I don’t say that you should move to Disqus if you are using Commentluv. This is my personal decision and it highly depends on the current status of my blog.
But I thought I should write this post to voice my opinion on this topic (blog commenting, Commentluv, Disqus, comment spam and things like that).
I also wanted to let my readers know why I made this change - I know some of my sites have been listed in the “Commentluv enabled blog list”. And most of my readers know that my sites had Commentluv enabled and they are quite surprised that it is gone now. I got some queries over email about the switch.
That is why I thought I’d write this post. Hope you picked up some useful information from this post. Please do share your thoughts in the comments!
Hi Jane,
This is a tough decision you made and I know because I made the decision to remove the CommentLuv for my readers last year. I still have the plugin installed though, but not the link LUV. Did you remove it completely? How long ago did you make the switch?
Thanks for sharing your reasons and the pros and cons.
Thanks for stopping by Ileane. I have removed the plugin completely. I had it for a while with the LUV disabled but as I have said in the post, I couldn’t deal with the spam - I used ABL and yet, I couldn’t cope
Hi Jane,
You are absolutely right about all that you’ve written, for me too blog commenting is the way to go!
As far as CommentLuv is concerned, I LOVE the plugin and highly recommend it, especially for new bloggers, and others too, but more so to the new ones because it does help bring in a lot of comments and traffic in the initial stages of blogging. However that traffic may not be that meaningful, but you still need it initially.
Now, I’m not praising CommentLuv Premium because I’m it’s affiliate. You’d hardly see me using it’s affiliate link on my blog so I’ve no such kinds of vested interests in it. I say this out of my own experience and recommend it because it did help my blog in its early days. I too had it for the past two years, and it served my blog well.
But I personally feel that as one gains popularity, traction or traffic, it’s no harm moving on to other options. The reason being you start getting too many comments to handle and one tends to attract a lot of spammers too, if you use CommentLuv.
I agree that CommentLuv has become a link building tool for the people who follow the link dropping culture. But mind you, there are good people too who use CommentLuv wisely. So, there’s no fault with the plugin, it’s just that many people abuse it and cause nuisance. Now, this disturbs you only when you get lots of comments on your blog, else it is easily manageable.
I too observed the absence of some commentators after I removed CommentLuv from my blog, and probably they only came to drop their links, and were not much interested in the posts or the blog. So, I’m in a way happy to get rid of such people.
I agree about the Anti Backlinker and it became too tedious for me as well to blacklist SO many spammers that I eventually gave it up. But I know there are many bloggers who efficiently manage the plugin and handle the spam, so I guess there’s nothing wrong with the plugin but perhaps it’s not to my likings.
Surprisingly, I see more meaningful comments on my blogs now even after removing CommentLuv, no link droppers, and there is hardly any spam - what more could I ask for! But I still get low quality comments in spite of removing CommentLuv, so while Commentluv increases their number, you’ll still get them if you use the native WP commenting system.
I had Disqus long back and loved it, before I switched to CommentLuv, and I also lost all the Gravatar’s when the comments shifted, so I wanted to try out the WP default commenting, which I am not using, after trying out Jetpack.
Jetpack was wonderful too, but you cannot add any additional plugin if you wish to with it, and some users complained of it making the posts slow to load. So now I use the WP default system with the CommentLuv Premium plugin in the background, and I use its GASP and ReplyMe options only, the best of both worlds, of course, minus the CommentLuv link
Let me tell you, the comments haven’t reduced one bit…as you can see in the Alexa post that you linked to here (thank you for doing that!), I still have to reply to ALL of them.
So, finally we all have to decide and choose what’s best for our blogs and it’s security, and what you’re comfortable with - to each one’s own. And whosoever is your loyal reader, will come, whether you have CommentLuv or not, the commenting systems are just a way
Having said that all, I’ll reiterate that there’s nothing wrong with the CommentLuv Premium or the Anti-backlinker plugins. I’m glad you’re using Disqus and I hope you’ll share your experience with it later.
Thanks for sharing. Have a nice week ahead
Harleena, just like you, I still love Commentluv plugin and not because I am an affiliate but because new and growing blogs definitely need the plugin to get some traction. I would not have grown my blog to this level and I would not have developed connections with many people if I didn’t have Commentluv on my blog to start with
Also with my spam problem, it only got worse recently (probably because my blog got listed on many Commentluv enabled lists :)). Until then I was doing just fine. The spam was controllable. But not now!
Also it is totally true that the quality of the comments have increased since I moved to Disqus.
And yep finally, we have to make the choice ourselves based on what is best for our business.
Thanks for stopping by Harleena and have a great week
Hi Jane,
How do you identify link droppers on new blogs? They are identifiable only when they comment regularly?
I know Harleena was also trying out these commenting systems a while ago. No problem in trying them out. But I did not like Disqus myself. Later, I even read a bad review from Gary Korisko here:
http://rebootauthentic.com/disqus-comments-pull-plug/
I guess you must have already come across the above post. Anyway, for now, I removed commentluv free a few months ago after reading some bad reviews from big name bloggers too. So, default commenting system for me till I get some traffic.
What I hate, along with many others is, and as you said is #4 - logging in to comment. Another thing which made me not to comment on disqus enabled blogs is, I lost my comments on some blogs due to login problems or maybe something else.
#6, #7 and #8 are surely useful and time saving. I had read Adrienne’s post in the past but will also read Harleena’s. Thanks for your review and insights, Jane. When probloggers like you test out something, we can use these tools with almost closed eyes.
BTW, how long has it been since you made the switch? Sorry, I didn’t notice since I’m not a regular commenter. Thanks for your post.
I am using blogger platform for my blog and was planning to move to disqus, this post gave me more reasons to do so. Kudos!
Hi, would you say that Disqus is most suitable for established blogs with regular visitors, whereas CommentLuv is intended to work with even new blogs? (Ok, I admit, I am a new commenter here and I’m using Disqus…).
I haven’t decided which system to settle with. At the moment I’m leaning towards the native WordPress system – it may lack features but it doesn’t create problems.
I’m amazed that someone hasn’t created a system that offers everything bloggers want and takes account of our concerns. It would probably be called New Disqus Lite, and it would be so popular…
You are right Donald. Commentluv helps new blogs to attract visitors and to build a community. It is certainly good for new blogs. In fact my blog wouldn’t have reached this status without Commentluv plugin.
But once you outgrow a certain threshold (and this threshold depends on the business you are doing) things become uncontrollable - the spam, in particular. And you also start to get low quality comments; comments from link droppers and things like that.
New Disqus Lite … sounds like a great idea
Actually Jane Each one have their own pros and cons but however I always prefer commentluv for my blogs and In Disqus what I dont like is they require a login for leaving a comment as you said in your post as many people dont like to login to leave comments..but in either case through Disqus we can filter spammers more efficiently than using commentluv platform. Many thanks for sharing your views
Hi Jane, I’m commenting from my phone with no problem, just so you know. I’ve been using CommentLuv since Andy released the beta version and have no plans of switching. That may change some day but not yet. Like Ileane, I did remove the link luv for a while to curb link droppers but recently reactivated it. At the end of the day it comes down to personal choice and doing what we need to do for our blogs.
Oh thanks so much for commenting from your phone
That helps me with my testing! I’m glad you are able to do it just fine.
Yep yep - personal choice
As long as you can cope with spammers and maintain the quality of comments and have a good community, you have made the right choice!
Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great week ahead
vilaku says
Good comparison. I moved to disqus and almost zero spam. But I guess it also reduced genuine comments as well. I was thinking to try commentluv to increase traffic. But will it just increase more link spamming traffic instead of quality audience?
It depends
With the increase in traffic from Commentluv there could be a fairly decent percent of spammers since commentluv encourages the option to leave a link to the latest blog post!
Hey Jane,
Disqus is really gaining momentum around the blogosphere. Although spammers do use it from time to time, it’s a lot more work for them, and we all know work is the last thing a spammer wants to do, lol.
So as more and more bloggers and blog readers get used to seeing it (and seeing their favorite bloggers using disqus) I think it will even out in the end.
I used to recoil in horror from Disqus comments because of the login, but now it’s even easier to stay logged in and comment than when I wasn’t using it.
I never commented just for the link love anyway, so I don’t mind missing the link. Congrats on making the move successfully, though!
John, certainly - I am seeing an increasing number of blogs switching to Disqus! I used to fear the login option too. I used to frequently forget my Disqus login and make commenting a challenging task.
Now I frequently comment of Disqus enabled blogs (I love the community, by the way) - so I am always logged in and I have no problems
Hello Jane,
I use Disqus and love it! Just like you said it virtually makes spam obsolete. I don’t see why people see it as a hassle to leave a comment if you have Disqus because you can also comment with your social media accounts and many people have a Twitter account if they don’t have anything else. Also, another benefit for me with using Disqus is you can edit your own comment. If you make a mistake you can go back and correct it. I have made mistakes and couldn’t go back and correct them because the comment system didn’t allow me too. However, with Disqus you can correct them. That is a wonderful feature in my book. I always say you have to do what’s best for you.
Thanks for sharing this with us!
The ability to edit comments - Thanks Maketta for reminding me this option! I totally forgot to mention this in the post. I LOVE this feature absolutely.
You’re welcome!
Hi Jane
This is strange. I was just about to change to comment luv and abandon Disqus because I felt people are not willing to comment on the platform.
Maybe I will just wait a little longer. I have not had any spam issues. Thanks for sharing.
Hey Awazie - just give it a little more time. Actually it depends on the size of your blog, your community and the level of engagement you already have on your blog. If your blog is very new and if you’d like some engagement, Commentluv is a great option.
Hi Jane,
I also used to use CommentLuv and switched to Disqus.
I purposely WANT to make it a little more difficult for people to comment because I truly want people who strongly desire to connect with me and share their opinion.
So, for me, the logging in is not a big deal and if people do not comment on my site because of that, then I don’t want their comment anyway…
Link droppers - oh yeah…
No matter HOW MUCH the CommentLuv users say their people are there for the right reason, there is ALWAYS a percentage (some a LOT more than others, depending on the blog) that would definitely STOP commenting if they couldn’t drop their link.
I don’t want that group of people ever on my site.
I reward my commenters by visiting their site and commenting if possible, so there is a building of relationship which comes from the reader/commenter giving first. That is highly indicative of their character, and that’s what I’m after. I don’t care about numbers at all…
The framework of Disqus is built to avoid spam, link droppers and low quality comments because you an see a reputation score and decide to blacklist or not…
I recently discovered that Disqus has a “Featured Comment” option, which I have recently started using. It’s so cool to take a really great comment and feature it at the top of all the comments. I found this by accident as I stumbled upon my featured comment on others’ blogs…
I don’t think it’s slow to load, although I use a CDN.
I agree the the set up is not for wimps. I outsourced this because I didn’t want to do it.
As far as avatars, I uploaded a custom pic to use for all avatars that didn’t show, which has solved this problem for me. You may or may not like to consider this option too.
Here are the things I like Disqus:
- Doesn’t attract spammers
- Free WordPress plugin
- Votes, up or down
- No affiliate program $$ <— so sharing Disqus benefits is only done to share why it benefits them, for no other ulterior motive
- RSS Feed
- Related posts at bottom, engages visitors, improves bounce rate
- Can Share comments on Facebook, Twitter, G+ with link back to post, powerful social interaction
- Mobile friendly (very important these days)
- Featured comment to give spotlight to an awesome commuter
- Unlimited time to edit comment
- Ability to have last comment at the top to avoid so forcing my readers to scroll so much to be able to comment
- Best Feature, in my opinion, an Email sent to Inbox when replied to, tons of traffic coming back….over and over (shows on my Google Analytics as one of the highest sources for traffic!)
It was also a tough decision for me to take the higher road, one that doesn’t crunch numbers and earn commission but a road that definitely puts all filters in place to encourage high quality traffic and comments, resulting in high quality relationships being built without questioning motives.
Thanks for the thought-inspiring content! I enjoyed it.
Have a great weekend.
- Carol
Well, what you said about people coming back after a comment was so true - I came back to vote for this one! Now I really don’t know if I’ll be switching after all…
Hi Donald,
Well, only you can decide which commenting system is right for you. There are a lot of good ones.
I would definitely choose one with social sharing provided where you can socially share a comment as this also gets traffic back to your site.
I don’t agree with Jane and others where they say new bloggers need CommentLuv to get the traction… I believe they should start with a high quality plugin in the beginning of their business and attract quality people to network with right away.
If I had to do it all over again, I would have STARTED with a high standard, and used Disqus at the beginning. Live and learn. It’s not right for everyone, but I really like it because it’s doing great things for me.
I spend ZERO time on spam or broken links. I may have lower numbers of comments than other blogs, but I know they are truly wanting to engage with me and have something from their heart to share, and not just for a back link.
Wishing you all the best.
- Carol
The ability to nip back to comments is excllent, and that’s probably won me over.
I just wish you could customise the comment form to get rid of all the clutter - links to Disqus, the tab with discussions elsewhere on the site, etc. I know they’re there for a reason but I’d delete about eight of them…
Hi Donald,
I have absolutely no idea what you’re referring to, as the comment form I am using right now is a simple box to type in and has a Post as Carol Amato button at the bottom. That’s it.
Have a good evening.
- Carol
What I was meaning is the whole comment block - so above the comment box where you enter your comment there are half a dozen links that I’d happily get rid of if I could, plus a few at the bottom of the page. But I’m getting to like Disqus now!
Good night all!
Hey Donald,
The links ABOVE the comments is not part of the plugin, that’s Jane’s stuff…not sure if it’s a different plugin or what.
The links BELOW the Disqus comments are Related Posts, and this increases click through to other content on the site, which IMPROVES bounce rate…
This can be turned off, but in my opinion, it should definitely be utilized… I certainly highly recommend whoever uses Disqus to not turn it off.
Hope to help.
- Carol
Hi again, I wasn’t talking about Jane’s links to other posts, I meant the small links at the top of the plugin – the number of comments, the name of the blog, sort by newest, etc. I know there’s a reason for them, and they don’t stand out on a long page of comments (like this one!) but I’d just get rid of them all if I could. I don’t like clutter!
Anyway I promise not to clutter up this post with any more comments!
Hi Donald,
You, my friend, have a strange definition of “clutter” - a comment is not clutter but a very valuable component to any blog page, just ask Jane.
The tiny structural framework of the commenting plugin itself is helpful for navigation but I’m pretty sure you could eliminate this altogether in settings, but again - these are core element parts and necessary, in my opinion, but differences of opinion are awesome and makes the world a better place!
Have an awesome day.
- Carol
Donald thanks for sharing your views here and thanks for your suggestion. Certainly you are not cluttering up this post
Please feel free to add more if you have more to say 
You are always welcome!
I’ve left those links on purpose. The link that says “Problogging Success” gives the opp to my readers to check out more from my blog. And I also give the chance for my commenters to share the post/comments and also to favorite the comment.
I use those options on other blogs that I comment. So I assume some commenters, if not all of them, will find those links useful
Carol thanks so much for sharing your insights here. I certainly don’t want low quality commenters, topic hijackers and link droppers. And as you say, even though Commentluv has a great community of users, there is still quite a decent bit of people doing things like this.
A new blog certainly needs a system like Commentluv to initiate engagement and attract new visitors to a blog. At that time, spam could also be “controllable” to some extent. But once your blog grows to a certain level it is quite hard to spend time on dealing with spam comments!
Even though I hesitated to comment on Disqus blogs earlier, I now find it a LOT easier to comment on those blogs
Quite contrary to what I was thinking earlier lol!
Thanks SO much for taking the time to stop by and also for having a conversation with Donald on my behalf!
Hi Jane,
Awesome reply, thanks! I guess I’ll agree to disagree that new bloggers should start with CommentLuv.
Also, Donald was replying to me, so I apologize if it appeared I was speaking for you as this was absolutely not what I was doing and not what I intended. I’m sorry about that.
Have a wonderful day, and thanks for putting out such wonderful content that is definitely share-worthy!
- Carol
Mike says
I’m not sure what I should do?
I typically just use the StudioPress commenting, unfortunately I’ve had like thousands of spam comments and typically don’t even bother filterting through them anymore haha.
How difficult is it to enable Disqus with StudioPress blogs?
Vernon Swanepoel says
I haven’t read much positively about discus. I once used blogger and got roughly a comment per post.
Since moving to my own blogging platform, I’ve used Disqus and found it really frustrating that NOBODY was commenting at all.
But then, looking back at my blogger blog I know that comments were either friends being nice (they’ve got bored of that already), or its spam.
I was just about to give up on comments on my blog altogether, but thinking about it, I decided to keep it.
What a comment system should allow is for someone reading your post, who have the natural urge to add to what you’re saying, to have that chance. That’s what Disqus gives you brilliantly, and so ill stick to it.
And I have seen the proof. The people who bother to visit my website through disqus are spending on average 10 minutes on my blog! They’re interested readers, not self promotional spammers!
Sorry for the long comment.
Hi jane, Thank you for your clear directions forward and your encouraging affirmations. It is a good way to improve our audience and engagement with our readers. I’ll surely give them a try.
Regards,
Stephen
Thanks for the thorough explanation on commentluv vs. the premium version. I don’t comment that often, and only just discovered the premium version yesterday. Now I know the other benefits such as antspam and finding other commentluv posts. I often skip over discus as I usually have trouble logging in. One of these days, I’m going to thave to get over that.
I will have to think about this further, and I may experiment with commentluv for a short period of time. I do get a lot of spam comment on my blog, bu takismet filters our most of those. Not sure what would happen if I used aksimet. The last think I want is for all those spammers to get good links.
Hi, great post, Disqus gives an opportunity to get a login through social media site like Facebook, Google+, so there is no need to get registered to leave comments on another website. Thanks
Laza says
I have never used commentluv so I can’t say anything about it. But Disqus definitely rocks. Its a genuine and effective system to get away from spammers. You have done a nice research !
Hi Jane, this is a great explanation of the difference between what are probably the two most popular commenting plugins. I like them both and they have some pros and some cons. My only complaint with Disqus is that it seems to often take a while to load which can be frustrating!
After using ‘CommentLuv’ and ‘Disqus’ Commenting System on my blog; finally, I decided to return to the initial one - that is the “Inbuilt Commenting System Of WordPress.”
By using the Inbuilt one, you’ve greater control over your commenting system without depending on 3rd parties like Disqus. It’s up to you how effectively you control your spam using best possible techniques/plugins. But one thing is sure - You will start getting genuine comments on your blog posts.
Happy Blogging
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Hi Jane,
All I have ever used is DISQUS and I love it for many of the reasons you’ve mentioned. I get really quality blog comments, I can see everywhere I’ve been and left comments in their dashboard, and when I someone responds to me it easily lets me know via email.
I get asked all of the time why I don’t get spammed. I never really thought about it until I read your article. DISQUS is really a neat system that is controlling that for me.
Another cool thing I’ve noticed is that I actually get visitors from DISQUS who can view comments and articles on their platform. That’s a really nice perk!
Like you, commenting is a big part of how I network online with other bloggers, journalists and editors of publications. It’s been the best way for me to grow my business to date.
I really appreciate your article and hope you have an awesome finish to your week Jane!
~ Don Purdum
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I’m using commentluv for a long it is very good place for discussion and site promotion.