In my quest to learn what works for effective, profitable blogging and share it here, I have come across a couple of sources for useful information on how to set your blog up to encourage more useful comments. Also, one of these sources reveals an effective way to do your blog posting and tie it in with making good comments on other blogs and creating two huge benefits.

You will be benefiting from increasing the socialization on your blog as well as getting more nice links. Now anybody can get links, well trashy links. But this is not what you want, you want nice relevant links that add value to your blog. And if you want to build a good reputation amongst your piers, you want to contribute well to their blogs as well by interacting with a relevant comment, something more than, “hey, nice post man.” (gimme a link!)

Add quality to other related blogs, so anyone new coming into any of the interconnected sites says, “Wow, this is where the good stuff is!” You will get yours . . .profits, when you do this. Because you will be linked favorably with other quality sites.

The Wordpress plugin, Commentluv is becoming a powerful tool to help enhance the socialization of your blog by encouraging others to place comments on your blog. Simply, they get more in return for their effort. Jack Humphrey blogged on his Friday Traffic Report about using this plug in and some others where he talks about getting more blog comments with Wordpress plugins. He shows how using some plugins create an environment on your blog where people will want to leave comments. This is good, right

It’s just part of the ‘helping’ mentality one needs to be successful in business – that’s helpful to potential customers and your potential associates in business. If you look at other businesses as competition, they always will be. If you look at them as potential business associates, you never know!

Since this is such an important topic I want to show you another source that adds to what you just saw – to complete the package of getting your blog comment friendly and link strong.

Alex Sysoef gives some good information with a clear explanation how to implement it all in his posting on his Wordpress Web 2.0 Spot-Er blog. If you want to get real effective with your efforts in blogging I suggest going through his post titled, “CommentLuv Plus DoFollow Equal Link Love”

He shows you how to use Commentluv to get more comments, and incoming links. And how to use the LuciaLinkyLove plugin to share link power with ‘good’ commenters and keeping the robots and spammers out.

Plus, did you know that Feedburner was eating up your ‘link-juice;? Yea, if using Feedburner you are not getting the benefit of those feed links – Feedburner is! There is a simple quick fix to modify your Feedburner account, read Alex’s item 2.

And this is hot, point #4. He gives a nice little system for increasing the links to your best posts even if you are super busy. This is something to set up in your schedule every week - make a key post, then go out and make comments.

And one more recommended plug in from Doug Champigny as he commented on Jack’s post. He uses the HashCash plugin to filter robot spam, he says it works. This one may require inserting a code depending on your blog theme, check the instructions.

Personally I’m going to hold off on the math verification one until I see if all the other plugins handle the spam.

Here are all of the plugins discussed in both mentioned blog posts:

Keywordluv - This allows commenters to leave a keyword in the name line improving their link back.

WP-Twitip-Twitter ID - Commentators can leave their Twitter ID along with comments.

WP Gravatar Plugin - Get a commentators’ Gravetar like pics in their comments.

LuciaLinkyLove - Share Link PR with commenters based on predefined settings.

Akismet - For spam

Did You Pass Math - For spam

HashCash - To filter robot spam.

This is socialization people! You need it, I need it – and everyone successful is doing it. And remember, don’t be greedy, give before you receive and you will receive! I suggest that you set your blog up as suggested in these resources I’ve linked for you here. You want blog become user friendly for all the people you want to be interacting with - right!

Oh, and leave your comment here — see how it all works. . .

I’m setting up registration of this blog with Technorati which is the largest blog registration directory online, I think! Many people use Technorati to search for blogs on specific topics so it’s a good place to register your blog to help it get found and receives some additional traffic.

Seems to be a fairly simple procedure, but it includes having to publish a bit of code on your blog long enough for them to verify that it is there. Just a way for them to verify that you actually own the blog, if you can add the code on it.

Another benefit may be in linking with Technorati since they have a Google pagerank of 8, we’ll see.

So here’s the code they want posted to check on –
Technorati Profile

This is just one more brick in building the ‘house of success’ here with this blog, easy, you should do it as well.

John

For a couple of weeks now a group of students mentoring under Alex Jeffreys has been building a community of blogs to both help each of their business’s as well as help each other as a group. This blog is one of those blogs. The system of blogs is building larger and larger as the 500 people taking Alex’s training are gradually get their blogs set up and running. If you don’t have a clue as to the potential power of such a group of people blogging together, stick around!

As a group we are putting up vast amounts of useful information not only about setting up blogs, but about all aspects of running a successful online business. We are interacting with each other gradually forming relationships which will lead to business associations. We are explaining and defining what we are doing while following the guidance of a proven online success. We are helping each other to succeed in many ways, from technical ‘how to’ to motivation. The power of many blogs linking together in various random ways will benefit everyone with their site traffic.

But here’s the thing, this group of blogs is not only a benefit to the coaching students but to anyone who gets involved. Think about it, what is the power of watching and following an already proven success formula? For those in the coaching group, I hope you see what you have developing here. If you participate you will get pushed up with the group through the ever increasing traffic.

And for those not in the coaching – I hope you see the potential here for you as well. Getting involved with this blog group will benefit anyone participating through the traffic flowing throughout. You can find details about what everyone is doing just by circulating to the various blogs, it’s almost like getting the coaching. If you want to know generally what we are doing you can get Alex’s free list buiding report on the plan we are following, of course the more detailed video version is offered as well which will just broaden your understanding and clarify exactly how it all works.

This is not a closed group, we openly accept participation from everyone, in fact that’s what we want, as should you if you want to build a presence online. Ad links, make comments and help out as you can, and you will see reciprocation. If you think success modeling is beneficial, if you think a group of like minded people is valuable, if you think building a list is critical, and if you think getting ‘well connected’ is powerful – this is the place.

Stick around - watch, learn and participate.

As with anything, this resource must be used to be of value. Information really only has potential value, it’s only when purposeful action is applied, based on the information, that the power is released.

Hello all,

I’m glad you found this blog and I hope it will be of some benefit to your efforts to succeed with online marketing. My intention is to create a place where you can get truly useful information, resources and connections that assist you with your success with your online business. There of course will be a process of growth here as it gradually comes together.

My hopes include creating a place where active marketers can get together, interact and help one another develop the various aspects of a profitable business. As you know there are several key pieces to the puzzle that need to be addressed but also some not so commonly addressed aspects. Since my main field of endeavor is with personal growth and self realization, I will be including input and resources to help with the mental aspects of building a business, success and fulfilling your dreams. This plays just as important a role as the technical aspects. Your state of mind, how you perceive things as well as your unconscious mental programming all affect your current thinking and ability to take action.

A lot of what I will be doing is to share my progress with developing my business, first to where it provides all of my monthly income, and then on to the establishment of my master vision I have for changing the way personal growth and development is practiced for millions.  With financial independence your dreams and creativity can flourish.

I will be sharing what I have found that works for me as well as methods, systems and tools I have learned about that appear to be of high quality and effective. Many times in my research I run across great tools and methods that I don’t have use for at the time or may just not be using yet that seem to be of value. We all know there is a lot of junk out there when it comes to internet marketing, so I will be careful what I pass along here.

Another service I see this blog performing is getting input and feedback from the participants. Not readers, participants. Together we are far stronger and viable than as individuals. I see this blog as acting like a mastermind in that the participants will all contribute and all win. The power of interacting with other like minded people is almost incomprehensible until you are in it. There are thoughts that just have not popped up in your mind that someone else may see as obvious, and when shared with you, your thoughts can blossom even more.

So, keep in touch, read, share your comments and ideas, add your links, do trackbacks  - share your success!

Some of the categories here may be some you are not use to seeing on blogs, but this is mine and I can do what I want! No, really I see things a little different than most so that’s what you will see here. But if you investigate them you will soon see the value - I hope! Then participate.

To your success in life and business, enjoy -

John