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Re: Multiple Reasons Why I Loathe Top Commenters Plugins

unlockphones — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:45:57 -0000

very nice post and badazz blog you have.

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Firebubble Design — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:33:12 -0000

Hi Andy,

excellent post, on my first blog I added a top commenter's plugin and it was nothing but spam and hastle. i never thought it hurt my SERPs though due to duplicate content.

Sam

Re: Multiple Reasons Why I Loathe Top Commenters Plugins

Firebubble Design — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:33:12 -0000

Hi Andy,

excellent post, on my first blog I added a top commenter's plugin and it was nothing but spam and hastle. i never thought it hurt my SERPs though due to duplicate content.

Sam

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Asia'h Fan — Sun, 18 May 2008 07:30:44 -0000

Thanks for the great insight into the top commenter plugin. As for the duplicate content issue, I have run several tests on different blogs and I can't really tell a difference as far as SERP/SEO goes.

How does that affect the duplicate content?

Thanks!

Re: Multiple Reasons Why I Loathe Top Commenters Plugins

Asia'h Fan — Sun, 18 May 2008 07:30:44 -0000

How does that affect the duplicate content?

Thanks!

Re: Multiple Reasons Why I Loathe Top Commenters Plugins

Lee — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:13:40 -0000

The top commentators plugin sounds useless to me as one good post is more valuable than ten pointless ones, although there are always sites which go for the number of posts/rivalry to be number one poster aspect to look good.

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Lee — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:13:40 -0000

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Des Walsh — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:54:25 -0000

This was a good find in the process of searching for the top commenters plugin! I'd already worked through the logic of taking a blogroll out of the sidebar but had not connected that logic to the top commenters feature, until reading this. And anyway, I'm more interested in people commenting in order to contribute something useful or interesting, rather than so as to be in some sort of commenters' steeplechase. Thank you.

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Des Walsh — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:54:25 -0000

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Paul - Morley Computing — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:44:20 -0000

I don't see what real interest is added to a blog by showing who the top commentators are â€“ if the blogâ€™s good (like this one :) ) then it shouldn't be necessary! If anything, I tend not to bother with comments when I see such a list because all too often the majority of comments are a result of competition or for SEO purposes alone rather than for any genuine relevance or interest.

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Paul - Morley Computing — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:44:20 -0000

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mark rushworth — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:43:59 -0000

valuable info this. and glad you're part of the do follow brigade... im systematically going through my domains implementing such techniques.

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mark rushworth — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:43:59 -0000

valuable info this. and glad you're part of the do follow brigade... im systematically going through my domains implementing such techniques.

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Visalia California Real Estate — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:46:18 -0000

Some webmaster forums are all a buzz about using this as an SEO tactic and a way to get high quality backlinks. I came across this site actually because I was researching the benefits / drawbacks to such a plugin. I just want to thank you for the insight.

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Visalia California Real Estate — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:46:18 -0000

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Lewis - HCOMS web design — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:34:08 -0000

I like the way Yahoo handle nofollows. It will still follow them it just means the link means less. Nofollow was intended to stop sites indexing pages that don't need to be indexed, and not stop people sharing relevant links.

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Lewis - HCOMS web design — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:34:08 -0000

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SEO Guy — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:32:04 -0000

I was researching this plug-in, and of course this post comes up in Google. I appreciate your comments and thoughts, I was interested in just the traffic aspect and seems that may be a little short as to what I expected.

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SEO Guy — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:32:04 -0000

Re: Multiple Reasons Why I Loathe Top Commenters Plugins

Mutiny Design — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:31:37 -0000

Personally I am a big fan. Although, I guess it is a bit of a cheap way of getting a site-wide links. But, it is also a way of encouraging comments on your site. If the comments are spammy, you could always delete them.

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Mutiny Design — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:31:37 -0000

Re: Multiple Reasons Why I Loathe Top Commenters Plugins

AndyBeard — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:54:19 -0000

It is one of the problems running the latest version of Wordpress and the problems it causes with a few very popular plugins, in this case spam karma.

You might think top commenters is a minor problem, but you are giving sitewide links, including all your duplicate content pages.

I see you like the plugin so much you nofollowed the link to the author.

Re: Multiple Reasons Why I Loathe Top Commenters Plugins

AndyBeard — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:54:19 -0000

It is one of the problems running the latest version of Wordpress and the problems it causes with a few very popular plugins, in this case spam karma.

You might think top commenters is a minor problem, but you are giving sitewide links, including all your duplicate content pages.

I see you like the plugin so much you nofollowed the link to the author.

Re: Multiple Reasons Why I Loathe Top Commenters Plugins

Jeff Hendrickson — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:42:18 -0000

BTW, I got an error using firefox when submitting my last comment. Something about a cache error. I thought my entire comment was lost but entered the captcha code and it worked. Might want to look into that as it looks bad. Peace.

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Jeff Hendrickson — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:42:18 -0000