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Comment Luv is a Wordpress Plugin that shows some love to your commenters by adding a link to their last blog post under their comment. It’s a nice little thank you to your commenters and it’s also an encouragement for them to leave comments.

I think it’s nice to show people a little love back and to give them a little incentive to comment. Personally I love comments and enjoy people interacting on my blogs, so why not say thanks and let them get some luv? A lot of my favorite bloggers use Comment Luv.

Sure you may be concerned about spam but you can install something like Askimet that will catch most of it (I usually scan my Aksimet every few days because occasionally it catches non-spam comments) and are you going to just shut your blog off from the world in fear of spam? Blogs are meant to be interactive so let them take their natural course and help you build and engage with a community. And when others see people leaving comments, it’s encouragement for them to get in involved in the discussion too so don’t be scared of them, embrace them.

But now Comment Luv also gives YOU some more link luv! Install Comment Luv and register at http://comluv.com and you’ll get to create a profile over there AND:

• You can add your site so that every time you comment on a blog that uses Comment Luv you’ll get up to 10 links from chosen sources.
• You get your own blog over there (do you smell MORE links?) Tip: add a blog post and link it back to your site & add yourself to your blog roll.
• You can also purchase credits (really cheap but not necessary) to do some different things like register more sites or choose a static post that you always want to show when you comment on a blog that has Comment Luv installed.

If you’re always looking for new ways to get link juice this is a great way to accomplish 2 things: encourage readers to comment & say thanks to them for doing so AND to get YOURSELF some more link love! Go ahead, it only takes a few minutes to set up and start spreading, and getting, link luv!

And then come back over here and comment on your first Comment Luv enabled blog and get those links rolling!!

~k, Visibility Specialist
@areaK on Twitter
@areak on Facebook

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So I’m always reading around forums, blogs and social networks; listening to what people say, think, and have questions about.

I saw someone ask about the fairness in link building. It was something to the effect of if you’re busy building good content and your competition is busy building links to outrank you, how fair is that? I’m sorry but this is the marketing world and all is fair in love and marketing.

Yes, you should build good content. But yes, you have to have links too. You can build good content for 2 years but if your competition builds enough links in a matter of months, they may just outrank you (I only say ‘may’ because there can be other contributing factors but you STILL need links).

We’ve done campaigns where a client puts up a new site and even though their competition has been around for who knows how long, we catch up to them with links. Do I think it’s unfair. Nope, you gotta do what you gotta do to get to the top and get those clicks. And I’m oh-so certain the competition is doing their fair share of link building!

It’s simply not just about how good your content is. Now don’t get me wrong, the better your content is, the more people are likely to link to you and help you spread the word so that ultimately you do get links but it’s a question of whether or not you care to wait for years potentially to get enough people to link to you on their own to rank you on the first page (unless you’re some HUGE name or brand, you may be waiting that long).

We all want to be found, we want to be on the first page, we want clicks, we want visitors, we want profits from our hard work … all is fair in love and marketing.

~k, Visibility Specialist
@areaK on Twitter
@areak on Facebook

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