We Want CommentLuv… but Need YOUR Help

I need your assistance to help make “Making Money Online Dot Com” a better website. One of coolest Wordpress plugins I have ever seen to encourage comments on blogs is CommentLuv and we want it on this website.

Unfortunately, I am having some issues every time I activate it. I am not sure if it is another plugin that it doesn’t get along with, or if it has something to do with the theme design. I just know when I activate it causes a weird thing to happen, at least on my computers.

I contacted the support team over at CommentLuv and Andy was very quick to reply…which I really appreciated. I explained to him the issue I was having and he tried several times to recreate the problem on his computer, but he never could duplicate it. That being said…  if he could not duplicate the problem, there was no way he could help me. That got me to thinking that it might just be my computer, so I tried my wife’s computer and my laptop and I still had the same problem. So, I told that to Andy and he said to activate the plugin and write a post and see if other visitors experience the same issue as me, and if they do… to contact them back so he can look further into it.

So that is what I am doing now. I am asking for your help to see if you are having this issue with our site on your computer. So what is the issue I am having? Well our site is set-up so when you click on any link it opens up in the same window (or tab). But when I activate CommentLuv and go to one of my post pages… EVERY SINGLE LINK on that page when clicked opens up the destination page in a new tab.

Now there are a few exceptions…  It seems to only have this issue in Firefox, and not IE… but I have not tried any other browsers. Also, it does not happen on the “index” page, or if you end up on one of our posts from a direct link from another site. It seems to only happen when you click on a post from our index page.

So can you guys please test this out for me and let me know if you have the issues I am? If so, please follow these simple steps below and then leave a comment with your results below. I have activated CommentLuv and will leave it activated for 24 hours for this test.

**I am only running this test Monday August 10th so you do not need to try after that**

Step 1) Go to our homepage: www.MakingMoneyOnline.com

Step 2) Click on a post: You should be able to click on any post.

Step 3) Click on any link: Once on a post page go over to the sidebar and click on a link under “Topics” or click on the logo at the top of the page. Did a new window open up?

Step 4) Please let us know your results in the comment section in this post. Please let us know what “Browser” and what “Version” you are using as well.

THAT’S IT!!! Thank-you to everyone that helps… we do appreciate it!

We will have CommentLuv working on this site one day… even if we have to change themes. I promise!

How to Get More Comments

Today’s weekly quick tip on Making Money Online Dot Com is not for everyone, but it could help you in the future. As you probably know I love comments and I also love to comment on other bogs. One thing I like to do to help build our online presence is to leave comments on the blogs of the people that comment on our site. I also like to visit the sites of the people who comment on their blogs as well and leave comments. The reason is simple… you already know these people leave comments on blogs, so there is a good chance if you leave a comment on their site, they might return the favor and comment on yours. Even though this is a “Great Tip”, this is not the tip of the week.

One thing I have noticed when following commentors (which is not a real word, but should be) to their sites is that some people use the URL to their main site versus their blog and wonder why they are not getting more comments. A good example of this was my buddy Brian Bell. He was leaving lots of great comments on our site and I wanted to return the favor, so when I would click on his URL… it would take me to his BlogEngage site, which at the time I had NO IDEA what it was, so I would usually just leave.

Then one day Brian left a comment on our site on the post “Hey Bloggers, Scratch Our Blog and We’ll Scratch Yours” saying that he should try that method, as he wasn’t getting any comments on his blog. So I suggested that he use his Blog URL in the comment box instead of BlogEngage… which he started doing and is still doing today.

After he made that SIMPLE change I personally started visiting and commenting on his site all the time. Not only because he was commenting on our site, but because SEOMkt.com is a GREAT BLOG and has lots of great information on getting more high quality traffic to your site. Also from reading his blog I actually learned what his BlogEngage site is actually about and I started submitting my blog posts regularly to it. I even added his BlogEngage Voting widget to our blog so readers can actually vote for our posts right on our site. It is an awesome tool and I suggest everyone gets it for their blog.

Okay… so we have learned that making that simple change (using his blog address versus using his main website address) that he has at least received a lot more comments from me personally. But did it make any difference to his overall commenting results? Well I decided to ask him 24 days later…

As you can see the answer is an overwhelming success! Now I am not saying everyone is going to experience these kinds of results, as everyone’s business models are set-up differently. I do think though… that there is a much better chance of getting more comments on your blog if you send people directly to your blog versus to another section of your site (or a completely other site like Brian was doing) and making the visitor have to search for your blog.

Why Comment on MakingMoneyOnline.com?

As Making Money Online Dot Com is a fairly new site, we are pretty happy with the amount of comments we have received so far… but we want more, a lot more. After reading “7 Ways to Reward Your Blog Commentators” from Dan Keller of TycoonBlogger.com we took inventory on what we have been doing to reward our readers for commenting on our site. We were happily surprised to see that we were already doing most of the things that he had mentioned in his post. We weren’t doing them all though, so we decided to implement his other ideas as well and see if we can get a lot more comments.

So the first thing, starting tomorrow August 1^st, we will be running a “Who Comments Most” Contest each month, and the winner will get some premium ad space in our sidebar. Actually we will have 2 winners each month. The two visitors that leave the most comments (*see rules below) will each receive a premium 125X125 banner spot on our sidebar that will be displayed for the entire following month. Then those ads will be replaced by the next month winner’s ads… and so on and so on. In the event of a tie which would give us 3 or more winners, we will just rotate all the ads in those 2 spots.

*RULES: The rules are very simple. The top 2 people (plus ties) in our “Who Comments Most” section will win 1 FREE month of banner space in our designated area. We reserve the right to refuse anyone and any banners that we do not feel are appropriate  for this site. For a comment to count, it does not have to be long, but it does have to be useful to us and/or our readers. Just writing, “Great Post! Keep up the good work” will not count as a comment towards winning the contest. We need to know that you actually read the post. Mark and I will have the final say on what we feel is a comment. Also, the maximum comments we will count per day is 3. That way it will keep someone from waiting until the last day and posting a bunch of comments. We reserve the right to modify the rules AT ANY TIME.

Now for the second thing, Dan mentioned to create a post once a month with links back to the readers who leave the most comments on your site. We are going to give that a try as well. Either at the very end of the month (like today) or the beginning of the next month we will create a post with at least one link to the top 5 on our “Who Comments Most” section. This month we went a little crazy and are giving “Link Love” to a lot more than the top 5, but next month we want to give you guys something to work towards.

So here are some our friends who are in our “Who Comments Most” section. We really appreciate all your support!

Brian – SEOmkt.com – Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Blog

Brian (he has 2 sites) - BlogEngage.com – The idea of Blog Engage is to promote interaction between bloggers by “Engaging” with each other’s blogs.

John – ExtremeJohn.com – Posts on Blogging, Business, Twitter, Rants, MMA, and his life.

Gooroo – iBlogPlanet.com (was FinanceAdvisoryStop.com) – Finance, Internet, Marketing, SEO, and Miscellaneous Topics.

Sire – WassUpBlog.com – Tells you wassup in the blogging world in relation to blogging for money avenues, blog tips and tricks, etc…

Deneil – DeneilMerritt.com – An Internet Entrepreneur’s Journey

Asswass – Asswass.com – Ramblings of a rich donkey and his website.

Benjamin – BenjaminCip.com – Start Your Making Money Online Venture

Lax – TechZoomIn.com – Blogging and Internet Tips ‘N’ Tricks.

Sandeep – CuriousLittlePerson.com – Blogging for Unlimited Possibilities

Dan – TycoonBlogger.com – Adventures in Blogging

Lee – MyBlog2Day.com – Making Money Online with Blog

Tony – PaidScribe.com – SEO Writer

George – Serradinho.com – Blogging news, tips, tricks and free downloads.

Jared – TheMoneyCult.com – A No B.S. Blog about money, the tools, and people trying to make it.

Please make sure and check out the blogs above, if you haven’t already.

Another thing we did today was add “Linky Love” to our site to also encourage visitors to leave some comments. After you leave 3 comments the “NoFollow” rule will be lifted and you will start receiving some much coveted SEO “juice”.

Unfortunately, we are still having some issues with this theme and CommentLuv, so it is still not working, but we will eventually figure it out. The plugin works fine when we activate it, but for some reason when it is turned on… it makes EVERY LINK on the site open up a new tab when clicked and that really bugs me. Has anybody else experienced that problem, and if so… did you find a solution you could share?

Ok… I think that covered everything. Anybody have any more suggestions for getting more comments? If so, please let everyone know in the comment box below.