The Top Commentators of August
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: the comments make the blog. I said throughout August I would post a homage to the top 10 commentators throughout the month. Just to do a quick run through of all the benefits you get from commenting:
- I have the DoFollow plugin installed, so every commenter gets their link to their website followed by SE spiders.
- The top 10 commenters get their name and website linked on every page of this website. The front page is PR5, and I’m hoping it will go up next update.
- I read every single comment. Commenting is equal to emailing me (I get the email alert anyways).
- I visit every single website linked to a name in the comments, and if you leave a link I visit that.
- The top commentator box does receive clicks, and so do the names in the comments. Traffic will come your way.
- You get to join in an awesome discussion, right?
So without any more delay, those who really made a difference this month, saved global warming, cured all diseases and fixed poverty:
Adam McKerlie was number one this month with 14 beautiful insights to my various ramblings. He runs a blog all about the C Programming Language and writes some great tutorials. He recently posted his stats this month and he beats me out!
Mutiny Design had 10 comments in August, but most importantly, he had #1000. This was a huge milestone for me (just passed 10k uniques in Mint, est April, too) and tomorrow I’ll be writing a full review of his site for having that momento. Ryan, on the other hand had one less comment at 9 and also had the 999th comment. Ouch.
L3ggy, who totally dominated the comments a couple months ago contributed the same 8 comments as Andre Ward did. Glen Allsopp had 7 comments in August and his great new blog is growing like crazy. I even noticed a post of his getting a lot of attention about the StumbleUpon top users.
Adam #2 left 6 comments this month along with Chris Juneau who left 4, and both have relatively new blogs to check out. Freebies, who also left 4 is just Goob in disguise (a past commenter) marketing a new site. Ukrainian is a new commenter who rounds out the list with 3 comments.
See? 3 comments a month is all it takes to get in on this. Not to mention I have 207 archived posts for you to feast on, with over 30 coming this month. The best way to stay on top of this, and to get the holy first comment, just subscribe to my RSS feed.
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Adam Mckerlie
September 3rd, 2007 at 3:41 PM
Haha sorry bout having two entries. I originally started with my one site and then switched over to EasyC. I didn’t want to promote the other site because it just had links to my new one.
Thanks for the link. It’s a great idea to thank the people that post on your blog. Keep up the good work.
Henry
September 3rd, 2007 at 3:49 PM
Wow thanks Connor, what people want to see my blog. The new system i’m making it going to blow your minds well the admin panel is going to blow my mind xD
Mike
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:40 PM
I didnt make the list this month due to vaccation for most of the month but I should be back up there for October! This blog has come a long way keep up the good work!
Florchakh
September 4th, 2007 at 3:13 AM
Spiders follow every hypertext link, even if it does have nofollow, buddy. By removing nofollow you only decrease SEO power for:
a) links that you post within blog entires
b) folks listed on the Top Commentators list
Mathew
September 4th, 2007 at 7:48 AM
Dofollow and Top Commentators are essential plugins for retaining readers and giving people an added incentive to post, although do you find that it attracts a lot of spammy comments? I’ve just added them to my own blog though I don’t have many readers for the spam level to be noticably anything above normal
Ryan
September 4th, 2007 at 12:15 PM
Thanks for the mention. I’ve been secretly trying to clean up my blogging act because I knew this was coming
David Hopkins
September 4th, 2007 at 1:51 PM
I was over reading David Airey’s blog yesterday and he mentioned that he uses a WP plugin called the LInkLove plugin. This allows you to set the number of comments someone has to leave before you remove nofollow. I think this is a great idea and I have been using a home-made version myself.
It will also be good to keep out the link hawks who come to your site to post one comment to get a backlink then dissappear into the night. If they look at the other comments, they will see they have nofollow removed and will probably never know that you blocked the flow of link juice.
Connor Wilson
September 4th, 2007 at 2:00 PM
@David: If someone wants to do that, they can be my guest. The link they’ll get out that is virtually useless. It will make no impact on anything for them.
Ryan
September 4th, 2007 at 7:24 PM
I like the idea of the plugin… but getting people to comment more than once per article is asking a lot (I am aware of the irony in the fact that I made a second post to point that out).
Connor Wilson
September 4th, 2007 at 7:43 PM
@Ryan: I think it works if they’ve left the set amount of comments during the time you’ve been using it, not just in one article.
Adam Mckerlie
September 5th, 2007 at 10:24 AM
As long as you have a spam filter the extra comments due to the Top Commentators list isn’t that bad.
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