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Filed Under (News) by Mani Karthik on 28-08-2008

Today on, top commentators on DailySEOblog will be featured on the right hand sidebar, with a link to their websites. The list will be refreshed every day, and the readers who’ve commented most on the articles will get a free link back.

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With great powers come responsibilities !

I realize that with the top commentators list, there would also be a lot of spam coming in. So I’m going to spent more hours filtering the list.

Please note that - Links will be selectively nofollowed to websites outside the “neighborhood” (unrelated websites), and user names, if found crafted to source link love.

This is to avoid strangers taking advantage of the opportunity, but I know my regular readers and sincere commenters, I may discount it if they “try” something as well.

Hope you’ll appreciate the jesture, and give me less time fighting spam.

Passive and silent readers and fans out there - if you haven’t commented yet on DailySEOblog, this is probably your opportunity to do so. You may just pick up some traffic and link juice from the blog, so move your lazy ass today!

(I’m reviewing the progress on this, will keep you updated if things go out of hand, which I prefer to believe is a distant possibility.)

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  1. Good to see that feature added to DSB :D
    Agree with your point that this would attract more spammy comments from those who would try to make into that list.. But still it is a good one to increase conversations ;)

  2. This sounds like a great idea and it will hopefully produce more activity on this blog.

  3. I am a regular reader, but I usually refrain from commenting “Hey Mani.
    Good Post” because that is what I have to comment on any given post.

    Anyway I will be doing it from now on.

  4. What is this # character in the comment header? Why don’t you remove it?

  5. I am not regular, But subscribed this Site feed.

  6. @Niyaz - Thanks for notifying me on that. Consider done. See how good you are commenting now.

    @Anish - Im seeing you more often here these days. Yeah?

    @Chetan, I know you’d still hang around even if this feature wasn’t available. :)

    @Crenk - Steve, welcome - hope to see more of you.

  7. Thanks for the tit for tat approach! ;)

    You are manually adding to the list? Or if it is a plugin (with moderate option), can you share it here? I used top commentators plugin. But i cant selectively put nofollow. So i had to remove it.

  8. also , i would like to see a subscribe to comment feature here :) I think that also will attract sensible comments.

  9. Great ! I would be coming here more often now.

  10. @Roshan - Welcome.

  11. I can already see the effect pumping up! Comment section larger than the post itself.. way to go…!! Ha Ha…!

    Cheers!

  12. Good idea. By the way, I’m really glad I subscribe to your blog. Get tons of great tips daily. Keep up the great work. -Moose

  13. I love your content, and subscribe to it.
    but leaving comments like “great post” or “thank you for the tip” just for link-love seems silly…

    will comment whenever i can contribute…

  14. This is good and definitely increases comments on the blog, I liked it though that you are hiding the number of comments, it makes it harder for people to guess how many more they need to comment on before they get to the list.

    I follow a weekly routine though instead of using it for a day.

  15. Am glad you like it Max. Cheers!

  16. Mani, i think you have set it to update daily. In my opinion this would not be a good option.. Though its your blog, i would have stuck with atleast weekly update rather than daily.

  17. I think you might be right Chetan.

  18. I noticed the section is getting updated daily..!? And its a good thing to hide number of comments next to the user so as to keep the comments war… low! :)

    Good work again.. Mani!

  19. Vinay, it updates daily, and I think this is something I have to watch out for and decide based on the frequency. And you are right about the numbers.

  20. Hi Mani, I am very happy to see my name in the ” Top Commentators @ DSB “.

    Thanks :)

  21. actually this plugin will grow the popularity of ur blog very fast, :)

  22. I don’t know about that, but I’ll be glad to see more activity on the website on comments. I know for a fact that there are peeps connecting with DSB only through RS readers. :)

  23. Definitely, this will Boost up comments

    :)