Hi James.

I’m not sure exactly what is going on there. Drop by Rise Forums and explain the issue in full as we have a lot of members who are more clued up in SEO issues than myself. You can share screenshots that may help illustrate the issue too.

Kevin

Comment luv could easily overwhelm being on Windows Plesk and running WordPress on it. Long story, so I won’t tell you how that happened.

I still haven’t decided because something is effecting my domain authority on a pretty new blog where I quickly coming up against others and its not the age of the site or the backlink and referring domains.

The only real difference I can see is they write very short and often, where I write only when passionate, which is seldom, then in-between new post go back and clean up those old ones better as I improve. The other factor which may be effecting it, but I don’t know, is they optimize to the point they barely approve any comments at all and only very short ones when they do. I approve every comment if it is not spam or troll. If its to long or goes to far off topic, I have a edit button.

Since DA is primarily age of site, site density and popularity, what they are they really using to gauge popularity? Since a like button is easy to click, and reading a few articles in full and typing in a fairly long comment on each takes a level of endeavor you could almost be writing a post. So can they be looking at comment sections as a significant factor on popularity?

No problem Raspal. Hope removing it works out well for you :)

You won’t remember me, but I do, from one of your posts at BAFB during the 28 days’ contest.

I landed on this post through Google, searching for, and reading many posts about comment luv. I have it installed since I started blogging last October. I don’t receive many comments and hardly any spam each week (about 10 spam comments a week, which hardly takes a minute to scan through and delete).

I Googled this topic when I happened to read why a top Indian blogger, Harsh Agrawal, removed commentluv from his blog – ShoutMeLoud.

Before reading your post, I’ve read some posts which speak the opposite. But as one of the commenters said above, I’ll also remove this plugin and test for a few months.

If anyone reading this post has removed this plugin, they must have noticed that old/existing comments still keep their commentluv, the links that is. Just read a post on how to remove the links from existing comments here. Maybe useful to someone reading this post. But, be careful as you will be manually modifying your mysql tables.

I also agree, valuable comments left on blogs automatically make other users and the blogger check your blog.

Thank you for this post, Kevin!

Thanks for sharing the facts associated with CommentLuv with utmost clarity & honesty.

Because for some times I was also thinking to install CommentLuv in my blog as the number of comments I am getting is very low. So I have searched over the internet regarding different advantages and disadvantages of commenting systems. But after reading your article my mind has changed. You are right. Even I also think that If any comment doesn’t add any value then what is the benefit of that.

I agree. I appreciate that people have gained traffic through leaving comments, however I’d rather spend my time writing content for my own blog instead of submitting dozens of comments every day. As you rightly point out, there is no long term benefit from being an active commenter, particularly as the website owner can stop using the plugin at any time.

If you manage to find some CommentLuv enabled blogs, still keep this fact in your mind that these blogs are using CommentLuv for just driving some commentators and they will quit using CommentLuv sooner or later. When they will quit using the plugin, you will loss all the links which you had built there.