If you ever wondered who your most loyal readers are at all times, now you can find out with the
Top Commentators WordPress Plugin by Daily Blog Tips. Once you install this Plugin you check your commentator stats from within your WordPress admin Dashboard.
The cool thing is that you can actually see an emerging pattern or not about your most active commentators by looking at various time frames such as:
- Last year
- This year
- Last month
- This month
- Last 7 days
- Yesterday
- And today
This could be ideal for bloggers who would like to single out a commentator and thank them specifically once a month, or else you could buddy up with them since you seem to share the same interests for joint ventures.
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I am glad to release the third WordPress plugin by Daily Blog Tips.
My Top Commentators is a plugin that allows a blogger to discover who are the most active commentators on his blog (via the WordPress Dashboard, so other people will not see this information). You can also use different time frames for this, so you can see the top commentators:
- Today
- Yesterday
- Last 7 days
- This month
- Last month
- This year
- Last year
Secondly, you can also see all the comments left by a single person, and edit or delete them via the plugin interface.
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When we start off a blog, we long for comments. I still remember how I kept revisiting my first few posts several times a day, just to see if a comment arrived from some god’s soul!
But as your blog begins to get popular and the comments’ section becomes more of a discussion thread, it gets difficult at times to manage the flow of information, users who comment and other relevant stuff. What experts believe today is, that threaded, portable and social commenting is the future of online discussions.
But with the advent of
Disqus, such problems are a matter of past.
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Almost two years passed since I quit my job inside a multinational company to work from home on the Internet. For me it was pretty a straight forward move. One year inside a corporation was enough to clarify what I wanted to do professionally, and working for someone else was definitely not part of it.
Another aspect that facilitate the transition was the fact that I was 22 when I decided to quit; meaning no bills to pay or responsibilities that extended beyond “staying alive.”
Now I am sure that there are many people out there wondering if they would like to work from home. Others already know they would love to, but they are not sure about the downsides, or how to make the switch. For those, I think it would be interesting to share what I learned along these two years.
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Many people already wrote about the rules of blog comments before. Most of them, however, focused on the so called
blog comments etiquette. That is, they told you how you should always add value to the discussion, respect the other people, never feed the trolls, be genuine and yada yada yada.
While that advice is solid, I feel that it lacks some practical sense. There are other points that I see people doing almost daily when leaving comments, and they can be equally annoying for the blog owner and for the other readers and commentators. Below you will find them: 7 things to avoid while leaving a blog comment.
1. Using the bold or italic attributes to highlight your whole comment
Blog comments can send good traffic to your website, and if you manage to catch people’s attention with your comments, this traffic might increase. Now, attention should be grabbed with a funny or interesting comment, and not by making your comment text bold or italicized.
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It’s been another day of blogging for you. You studiously posted your latest entry, hoping to hit the jackpot this time. You go to bed feeling great. After all, you accomplished something haven’t you. The next morning you get up only to find that your blog is eerily quiet.
No comments!
You grab your head, tear your hair out and shout “What the f#$@ just happened? Why are people not storming my blog. What is it I’m doing wrong?”
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Here is a Plugin that lets you interact with your most avid fans by allowing you to see how often they have been active on your blog. The
Comment Info Tip WordPress Plugin ads some further usability to WordPress blogs and the way we can connect with each other.
What I really like about this is the way I can see as a blog owner who has been a very active commenter. Unless I study the comments physically and take the time to dig deeper, this is quite annoying really. Especially when you are
pressed for time as most of us are.
Now by using this Plugin we can simply hover over any comment and it will throw back some useful information. For example, we can see:
- how often the person has commented on the blog overall
- if the commenter has posted more than once, the Plugin will attempt to pull the RSS feed and show an excerpt of the latest blog post
- the Comment Info Tip Plugin will also indicate trackbacks and pingbacks
- if the commenter has posted more than once the Plugin will also display the links to the last three posts they have commented on on your blog
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As bloggers we all love to get as many comments as we can. After all, having an active community of commenters gives us a sense of achievement. With the
Meet Your Commenters Plugin you can now connect even more with the people who comment on your blog by showing you some “insider” information within your dashboard about them.
The Plugin works with the help of the
Google Social Graph API.
When visitors leave a comment on your site they leave more info than you think and with the help of this Plugin you can connect through social networks where information is provided all through your dashboard.
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@jimgoldstein asks: “one things I see bloggers struggle with is blog spam. When self promotion goes to far. “
I agree Jim. There are different kinds of spam - the main stuff we see is the auto-generated stuff that fills our inboxes and hits our comment filters but then there is a more subtle kind of spam - where bloggers overstep the mark on other people’s blogs by promoting themselves to a point where they put others off. I see this every day in the comments on my blogs where the comments left are five words long and only slightly on topic and then there’s a list of 2-3 links as a signature. The comments left are obviously a thinly veiled attempt at self promotion.
The problem with this approach of self promotion is that you can do more harm for yourself than good. If you comments are allowed on your blog the reaction from others who see it can actually hurt your brand. I write about this in
10 Way s to Hurt Your Blog’s Brand by Commenting on Other Blogs.
The key to growing your blog is to create value. Create useful and unique content on your own blog (don’t get caught up in the self promotion game in every 2nd post) and to do the same thing on other people’s blogs. The people’s blogs that I visit from comments on my blog (and others) are those who have something interesting and useful to say - not those who leave links on dull and spammy comments).
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Have you ever wondered what the commentators to your business blog sound or look like?
Well you don’t have to wonder any more if you use
Wordpress.org as
Seesmic, the video conversation site founded by Loic Le Meur has recently released a plug in for your Wordpress.org blog so that your community and followers of your business blog can leave video comments.
I’m about to update my blog and will certainly be checking out the plug in for video comments which you can access at the
Seesmic Wiki.
I’m wondering if that will mean I can no longer blog in my PJ’s if I’m going to leave video comments on other peoples blogs!
Tags: Loic Le Meur, Seesmic, business blog, video comments
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pressed for time as most of us are.
Now by using this Plugin we can simply hover over any comment and it will throw back some useful information. For example, we can see:
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