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Looking to gain more comments on your blog? Get your visitors to join in the conversation!

Some easy ways to get more comments on your blog are by installing Wordpress comment plugins. Obviously two of the most popular WP comment plugins are CommentLuv which helps you get more comments by commenters by providing a titled link to their last blog post and the NoFollow Free plugin which removes the nofollow tag from your blog’s comments.

As I am always trying to improve my blog sites, I thought I would test out two plugins that will hopefully help get more visitors to leave a comment on my blogs.

WP Threaded Comment Plugin

The Threaded Comment Plugin enables users to reply on a existing comment, and the discussion will be displayed threaded or nested.

Lets look at what threaded comments are and how it can help us to get more comments on your blog. Comment threading connects comments with links such that each comment can be linked to the comment it is in reply to, ensuring future readers can more easily follow the conversation and add their constructive thoughts to the discussion. Similar to a forum page.

I understand the new WordPress 2.7 includes a lot of new comment functionality. Comments can be threaded, paged, etc. With WP 2.7 it is built in, but unfortunately, your theme must support it.

The WP Threaded Comment plugin like most plugins is easy to install and if you find your WP theme does not support threaded comments you could try this plugin. To be honest the only reason I am using the WP Threaded Comment plugin is that it was a recommended plugin to use with the Seemic plugin.

Seesmic WP Plugin

I have had this plugin installed for a while but have never got around to testing it out.

Seemic is much the same as Vimeo and Viddler. The Seesmic WP plugin allows commenters to leave a video comment. Using video comments add a new dimension when readers comment in two-way, threaded communication. Loic Le Meur’s owner of Seesmic, recently purchased Twhirl a leading 3rd party Twitter client and as I am a big fan of Twhirl, I thought I would start testing this plugin first.

The Seesmic plugin has some great features. The plugin allows for you to accept authenticated or anonymous video comments and moderate video comments exactly like text comments.

Another feature of the Seemic WP plugin is that you can record one or more Seesmic video’s to a post. (I have not used record a video post or a comment yet as I am not sure if you want to see my ugly melon on the screen).

I am also testing the Disqus Comment plugin on one of my other sites. Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community. You can read my review on the Disqus Comment plugin here.

Will these plugins get more comments on your blog? I’ll get back to you on that one.

First thank you all for your comments on my last post Twitter Plugin. From some of the comments left it seems there is still a few who do not understand the full potential of Twitter.

Originally i was going to write a follow up post on some of the advantages of using Twitter but in my weekly scan of my favourite blogs i came across a post from Soren Jordansen titled Twitter In Plain English which couldn’t explain it any easier. Here is just a sample of Soren’s post,

Twitter is also a very powerful way to get noticed by leaders in your industry. You want to seek out people in your industry who are more successful than you are, and add them to the list of people your are following.

When they post at Twitter, you can reply to their tweets and they will be able to read it. Don’t spam them, you need to add to the conversation, offer your help on something, or post an intelligent question. If you do this the right way these “industry leaders” will start to notice you, and remember you – and trust me that’s a great thing.

Also sometimes these “industry leaders” will reply to you, and that is where the fun begins… All their followers will see that they have found you worth talking to, and they now have the chance to go check out your Twitter page and start following you. You are in other words becoming “famous by association”, and you can really pick up a lot of new Twitter followers this way.

Now you see what potential Twitter has?

If you have never read Soren’s blog you can check it out here, and make sure you subscribe to his feed or newsletter. I am glad i did, as it was how i found out about his great new Twitter plugin Tweet My Blog and receive fantastic IM tips as well.

If you are a Twitter fan you might be interested in this Twitter plugin.

Twitter is a great tool for driving traffic to your blog. You simply post a “tweet” when you have updated your blog, and all your friends, followers and admirers will be instantly notified “bang” that’s instant traffic back to your blog. And even better, people can reply to your tweet, their followers can see their reply and before you know it, you have a viral stream of traffic back to your blog.

Don’t know about you, but i tend to forget to post at Twitter. That is where this Twitter plugin comes in. The plugin automatically posts a tweet every single time you update your blog and and the best part? These tweets link back to your blog.

Just one mouse click and you will activate this powerful plugin on your Wordpress blog. Enter your Twitter log in details, and you can even set your custom tweet message. Every time you post to your blog, the Twitter plugin will automatically post a tweet, complete with the full link back to your blog.

Once the plugin is activated you will see a Tweet My Blog widget in your admin sidebar menu. This widget will pull in your latest tweets and link them back your personal Twitter page.

You can also make money with this plugin. As people join Tweet My Blog under you, they will be presented with some high converting related offers, and you will receive a cash commission when they buy!

This is the latest pre-season training video from The Thirty Day Challenge. It blew me away when i first saw it.

It’s very powerful, very new, and not many people in the internet marketing world know it even exists yet. All that is about to change.

You can check out this feature by clicking on the “Add our expertise to your Google web searches” button which we have just added on the right.

I am still playing around with this as the video is just a little teaser and you have to wait for the full traing when The Thirty Day Challenge actually starts, but i thought it was too good an opportunity to wait until then.

There is only problem i have come across so far, and that is getting my logo to show. But after searching the forums it seems a problem with Google, so who knows when that will be fixed?

So do yourself a favor and watch this video, it is only 4 minutes long.

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You can sign up for The Thirty Day challenge here.

This is just a quick update on changes we are making to our blog site to attract more visitors and hopefully start to make money online.

For Entrecard users we have added a special feature, U drop, we follow. If a card is dropped at adsenseaddict.com we will return the compliment.

For those who would like to leave a comment, we have two new features, the first: we have added a “no follow free plugin”. The purpose is to encourage comments by rewarding commenters with “dofollow” links which boosts their rank in search engine.

The second feature we have just added is the “CommentLuv Wordpress Plugin” This plugin will visit the feed of the comment author and attempt to scrape the last post they made and display it under their comment, this way we can encourage people to join in the discussion of our posts and give something back straight away.

The plugin looks for a feed in the default location of your blog, for Wordpress users this will be /feed/ or /?feed=rss, blogspot users get /feeds/posts/default, web-log blogs are now included thanks to Edward De Leau. If it can’t find a feed there then it will search your <head> part of your website for an alternate link (<link rel=”alternate”) and use that instead.

The plugin retrieves your last post at the time of the comment being posted and appends the extra text just before the comment gets saved to the database, this way it doesn’t put any extra load on the database or server other than the effort required add another 60 or so characters to the comment content.

Since we launched adsenseaddict.com three weeks ago, we knew next to nothing about blogging. Thanks to Entrecard.com we have learnt so much and we would like to thank all those fellow bloggers who took the time to visit our site, left a comment or let us be part of your social bookmarking sites such as mybloglog.com and blogcatalog.com.

Having been involved in running a online store www.zipposuperstore.com for a few years, i decided to start my own blog site, so please understand this is just my opinion

Since starting Entrecard.com, i have seen a hell of a lot of blog sites lately. Some of them
have had outstanding posts where i have learnt a great deal. But one thing puzzled me?

With the price these days of domain names and website hosts, why are these great blogs on a free blogging site?

So i thought we would put together a little list of the pros and cons on joining a blogging site, which was where i originally started.

Joining an established blogging site like blogger. has plenty of advantages, especially for the blog novice. Sites that host a lot of different blogs often have very useful tutorials about building and updating your blog, and you are likely to encounter a very user-friendly software interface at an established blogging site.

In addition, these sites provide a kind of instant community of fellow bloggers who can provide advice, insight, and feedback. These established sites often keep directories of their members, which can be great news for your traffic logs because it means that other bloggers on the site will find out about your pages.

However, there are also some downsides to linking up with a large blogging site. By posting within the established templates of a site like blogger, you run the risk of having your blog look and feel like everybody else’s.

The blogging community is very much about the creation of distinctive sites and the development of individual voices, so it makes plenty of sense that many bloggers would shy away from the standard look and feel that these blogging sites often promote. Many bloggers feel that the content of a blog is what makes it distinctive, not the look of the blog.

But with the features, ease of use and the Wordpress community, much more can be
done now to enhance and market your blog site. Throw on a few Adsense ads and it will pay for itself within the first few months. There are many ways you can also display ads on your site and make even more money online.

Give Wordpress a go and you will be amazed at the results you will get. It cost us less then $20 to get started. and thanks to Entrecard.com we made $8 last month through this blog site alone just using Google Adsense , so there is the years hosting paid for already.