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12:48 pm
September 16, 2011
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Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog
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Yesterday, I removed Commentluv on my site because I saw another Yakezie thread saying that CommentLuv damages your google rankings. I experienced the same thing, because mysteriously, my search engine traffic has been sagging.
So immediately, I'm noticing a ton more visitors from search engines!
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4:09 pm
September 16, 2011
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OneCentAtatime
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When did you remove and from when traffic increased?
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4:19 pm
September 16, 2011
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MoneyIsTheRoot
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I cant imagine search engine hits going up within 24 hours after removing commentluv.
by the way, has anyone confirmed that commentluv hurts PR?
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4:47 pm
September 16, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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MoneyIsTheRoot said:
I cant imagine search engine hits going up within 24 hours after removing commentluv.
by the way, has anyone confirmed that commentluv hurts PR?
Yep. Coincidence.
No, I have seen no proof and these blanket assumptions are extremely misleading.
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12:28 am
September 17, 2011
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The College Investor
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I think CommentLuv with Do Follow links will hurt you because the links in the comments are not relevant to your posts. Use No Follow for your CommentLuv links and you should be fine.
I would challenge you as to what posts were hitting on your search. Was there a news article or something that could have prompted people to search for those keywords?
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4:10 am
September 17, 2011
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Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog
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OneCentAtatime said:
When did you remove and from when traffic increased?
Within 24 hours! I saw the previous yakezie thread, and I felt that it made sense. I also searched online and found a few other blogmasters with the same conviction.
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4:12 am
September 17, 2011
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Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog
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MoneyIsTheRoot said:
I cant imagine search engine hits going up within 24 hours after removing commentluv.
by the way, has anyone confirmed that commentluv hurts PR?
It may not hurt pr that much. But it seems like Google has its own internal pr that's constantly updated, and the pr rank that's available to the public isn't always in line with the internal one. Just because it doesn't hurt pr doesn't mean it won't hurt your rankings. Your rankings aren't a direct deviation off of the PR.
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5:31 am
September 17, 2011
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JT_McGee
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I think he's referring to this thread I started in June: http://yakezie.com/forums/blog…..38;ret=all
I can't say with 100% certainty that removing it was the source of additional search engine traffic, but I can say that I see no reason to bring it back to life.
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5:43 am
September 17, 2011
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20s Finances
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Thanks for the great conversation. I currently don't have commentluv installed, but have searched the settings in wordpress to see if the links set up in my comments are do follow or no follow, and have no clue. Any tips for a newbie? Is there an easy way to find this out?
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5:59 am
September 17, 2011
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OneCentAtatime
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Hard to believe, my reasoning failed, still gave it a try removed commentluv 12 hrs ago and keeping a close eye on search traffic. Welcome Google crawlers come soon…
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6:21 am
September 17, 2011
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Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog
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20sfinances said:
Thanks for the great conversation. I currently don't have commentluv installed, but have searched the settings in wordpress to see if the links set up in my comments are do follow or no follow, and have no clue. Any tips for a newbie? Is there an easy way to find this out?
If you're using chrome, right click, inspect element.
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6:39 am
September 17, 2011
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20s Finances
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Awesome. Thanks.
Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog said:
20sfinances said:
Thanks for the great conversation. I currently don't have commentluv installed, but have searched the settings in wordpress to see if the links set up in my comments are do follow or no follow, and have no clue. Any tips for a newbie? Is there an easy way to find this out?
If you're using chrome, right click, inspect element.
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10:05 am
September 17, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Just out of curiosity, how is having comment luv (you can easily set it to no follow, so I am assuming it was set to nofollow) different than having double the amount of comments? And I thought google puts really less values on the comment links anyways? Not questioning or anything, just curious about how it works.
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10:35 am
September 17, 2011
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That is actually a really good point….so the more comments I get, Google will view me poorly lol
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11:47 am
September 17, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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MoneyIsTheRoot said:
That is actually a really good point….so the more comments I get, Google will view me poorly lol
Ya, those monster sites that get hundreds of comments on their articles get smoked by Google. :|
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12:01 pm
September 17, 2011
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Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog
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MoneyIsTheRoot said:
That is actually a really good point….so the more comments I get, Google will view me poorly lol
I thought the more comments, the better. Google views more comments as more people enjoying the blog post, hence they rank it higher in the SERPs.
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2:05 pm
September 17, 2011
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It is too difficult to assess what moves your search engine traffic ratings. I doubt that one comment plugin had that much of an effect.
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3:12 pm
September 18, 2011
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Sustainable PF said:
MoneyIsTheRoot said:
That is actually a really good point….so the more comments I get, Google will view me poorly lol
Ya, those monster sites that get hundreds of comments on their articles get smoked by Google. :|
Strange. You would think comments would be a good thing. Especially if they are no follow. Am I wrong?
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3:32 pm
September 18, 2011
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Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog
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Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter said:
Sustainable PF said:
MoneyIsTheRoot said:
That is actually a really good point….so the more comments I get, Google will view me poorly lol
Ya, those monster sites that get hundreds of comments on their articles get smoked by Google. :|
Strange. You would think comments would be a good thing. Especially if they are no follow. Am I wrong?
To test this theory more, I've reinstalled the commentluv plugin (nofollow of course). I'm gonna see how that goes, and I'll keep you guys updated.
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3:32 pm
September 18, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Miss T, comments are good. MITR and SPF just meant that in a lighter sense.
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