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Eliminate Annoying Keywords in Comments with the Keyword Luv Plugin

By Jean-Baptiste Jung on November 3rd, 2008 | Filed Under Plugins
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Due to the recent popularity of WordPress Plugins such as Nofollow Free or Top Commentators, more commentators are using keywords instead of their name in order to increase their Google ranking for the specified keywords. Do you find that annoying?

I must admit that I prefer answering “Alex” instead of “San Diego Real Estate”. But as I previously said, having the “Top Commentators” and the “Nofollow Free” plugins enabled are good for your traffic. So, is there a solution?

Happily, the answer is yes. Stephen Cronin have created the Keyword Luv plugin, which allow the commentator to specify both his name and his keywords. For example, my initials are “jbj” and related keywords to my blog should be “Web Development” or “WordPress”.  Instead of typing “Web development” as my name, I’ll type “jbj@Web Development”.

Here is the result:

Keyword Luv

Installing Keyword Luv

Nothing hard here: First, download the plugin, extract it and upload the directory on your server, under the wp-content/plugins directory.  Then, login to your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins and activate the plugin.

That’s all! Enjoy you “keywords free” comments!

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  1. 1 One Stop Game News
    Monday, November 3rd, 2008 at 4:39 am

    That is a simply brilliant plugin. As you can see I am using my keyword for my site here. I use it on all the sites I like to visit.

  2. 2 Kyle Eslick
    Monday, November 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    @ JBJ - Very interesting post Jean. I don’t have a problem with people using anchor text (keywords) as their name, but I’ve often found myself deleting comments that have anchor text and don’t have value. Things like “great post!” and such which don’t add an value to the conversation.

    I may consider using this on one of my low traffic sites for awhile and if it helps, install it here as well. Thanks for the heads up on this!

  3. 3 K-IntheHouse
    Monday, November 3rd, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    Jean, great focus on this awesome plugin. I have used this plugin for a long time now in my blog and the post on it has become one of the most commented posts as well. Stephen has done a great job with it.

    Make no mistake, I love giving my readers some link love especially when they leave meaningful comments that add to the discussion. I do however have started to wonder in terms of SEO. As I mentioned this post on CommentLuv & KeywordLuv has all kinds of keywords in the 120+ comments. And the keywords are all from different niche.

    Would this affect the page’s pagerank eventually? How would this affect the site in whole with so many different outgoing links with so many keywords? I have sounded this off elsewhere but haven’t really heard about the SEO aspects of it.

    Would love to see a discussion on this.

  4. 4 K-IntheHouse
    Monday, November 3rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    Oh, and RT of Untwisted vortex maintains a list of blogs that use CommentLuv and KeyWordLuv. So ask to add yours to the list if you use this great plugin.

  5. 5 Kyle Eslick
    Monday, November 3rd, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    @ K - All comments will have the nofollow tag, making it virtually irrelevant from an SEO standpoint, unless of course you are using a dofollow plugin (or something similar).

    From the commentators standpoint, it shouldn’t matter, though ideally they will want their comments to appear on “similar” topics that are relevant to their blog. An inbound link from an irrelevant site is not going to hold much if any SEO value. For example, one inbound link from a relevant PR4 site in your niche is worth more than 100 inbound links from a PR2 site, etc.

    From the bloggers standpoint, however, having a blog that jumps all over the place to a variety of topics can be hard on search engines as they try to figure out what exactly your blog is about. It will get a low authority ranking on a variety of topics, instead of a high authority ranking on 1-2 keywords.

    I usually recommend bloggers who spend a lot of time talking about an “off topic” subject to break it off into a separate blog. You may remember that was how WPHacks.com (HackWordPress.com) was started. :D

  6. 6 K-IntheHouse
    Monday, November 3rd, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    Kyle, thanks for that awesome reply. I have removed nofollow from my comments and exactly the reason why I wonder about it’s possible ill-effects on my blog due to the outgoing links.

  7. 7 jbj
    Monday, November 3rd, 2008 at 5:39 pm

    Thanks for the comments, I’m glad you found Stephen’s plugin useful!
    @K: I have dofollow on all my blogs, and I never been penalized by Google. Though, I heard people complaining about this.

  8. 8 Stephen Cronin
    Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 at 8:13 am

    Hi Everyone.

    First, Jean-Baptiste, thanks for writing about the plugin. Much appreciated! Can I just say that everyone reading this should get over to WPVote (Jean-Baptiste’s social news site for WordPress) and get behind it.

    Kyle, congratulations on this site, I keep hearing about you on the WordPress Weekly Podcast…

    K, thanks for the support. I’m going to take a moment to answer some of your concerns:

    Kyle’s pretty much spot on with what he says about links being more useful if they’re from relevent sites, but I’d add that using your keywords on a non relevant site is better than not using them. Every little bit helps.

    A lot of what KeywordLuv does (when used with a dofollow plugin) goes against ‘good SEO’, but when I look at the traffic Google sends me, it can’t be that bad. Over the last year it’s slowly steadily increased, which is to be expected, given more content and more authority, but the introduction of KeywordLuv didn’t have any effect on that trend.

    Not sure if this will work, but here’s a screen shot from Google Analytics of traffic sent to my blog by Google Search over the last year:

    Anyway, I’ll leave it here and answer in more depth soon - I’m still writing that post on KeywordLuv and SEO I promised you.

  9. 9 Stephen Cronin
    Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 at 8:14 am

    Okay, the image got stripped, but you can see it at:

    http://www.scratch99.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/google-search-traffic-small.png

  10. 10 John Hoff - eVentureBiz
    Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

    I include both for personality and branding at the same time. But it does kinda suck when people leave their name as a company or keyword only name.

    I mean, your blog isn’t an advertising board, it’s a place for discussion among people.

  11. 11 Alex @ San Diego Real Estate News
    Friday, November 14th, 2008 at 3:35 am

    Funny how my comment was used in this example! :) I installed the Keyword Luv plug-in on our real estate blog in San Diego and it really has been interesting to see and track some of the comments. I think that you have to be careful with spam but you also get a lot more participation in your blog and it gets other people involved who might not have participated in the past. I think the plug-in has been a big success.

  12. 12 Barton
    Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    So how come you aren’t using KeywordLuv on your post about KeywordLuv?

  13. 13 Kyle Eslick
    Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 at 3:42 pm

    @ Barton - This was a guest post, so the author didn’t have control over whether or not the plugin is used here.

    Also, if we used every WordPress plugin we review here, well, this site would be extremely slow. :mrgreen:

    That doesn’t mean we won’t eventually use this plugin, or a similar one, just saying…

  14. 14 SEO Consultant India
    Sunday, January 25th, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    Thats grt, Thanks for the info. Hope you bring such useful info for us in future also :-) Thanks again.

  15. 15 Dain@Salton Yogurt Maker
    Saturday, February 28th, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    Thanks for the ‘LUV’. I just heard about Keyword luv a couple of days ago. Thanks a lot for doing this for us. I hope the movement keeps growing.

    Share the LUV everybody!

  16. 16 Rudy @ sports picks
    Thursday, March 19th, 2009 at 11:05 am

    I Luv this plugin.

    I Do Follow and Luv on my site as well.

    Thanks for your suggestion.

    Rudy

  17. 17 Pittsburgh Blitz
    Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at 9:56 pm

    Great plugin been looking for something like this for a while.

  18. 18 Villas in Seminyak
    Sunday, May 17th, 2009 at 9:02 pm

    Thanks…Great plug in..keep sharing

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