Top Commentators Update
ADVERTISEMENTSI updated the Show Top Commentators WordPress Plugin as soon as I found that it had an update that fixed the ‘reset weekly’ option. The ‘reset weekly’ option used to work incorrectly for some reason, so I could not use that option earlier.
Now that the problem is fixed, I have set the Top Commentators plugin to reset weekly instead of every 6 days.
I also set the plugin to display the Top 10 Commentators instead of 5. I hope this encourages more readers to comment.
Getting your site on my Top Commentator list will not only help you get traffic but will also benefit you SEOwise as you will be getting a free sitewide link on a PageRank 6 site without a nofollow tag.
Update: Just to encourage you even further…I currently get 5000+ unique traffic per day.
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Posted on April 29th, 2007 | Category: General |
Ashish Mohta
April 30, 2007 at 12:51 am
Sounds good John, I have updated mine too.
Benedict Herold
April 30, 2007 at 12:54 am
This update will make me come here weekly
Keith Dsouza
April 30, 2007 at 12:57 am
Hey John,
I have finally moved to wordpress and like this tip, i have made use of several others from your site for making the move.
Now that I am in the US i have started to blog more actively. Will comment more so hope to be in that list too.
Cheers
Keith
JohnTP
April 30, 2007 at 1:10 am
Ashish Mohta- The update was actually made 1 month back
Benedict Herold- Coming weekly is better than not coming at all. Good to have you back
Keith Dsouza- It’s been such a long time since you commented here. I know you have been busy with your work that you could not even blog frequently.
btw, why did you not move to WordPress earlier? Remember I used to ask you this question in the past too
Good to have you back too
Shashank
April 30, 2007 at 1:20 am
Hmmm looks like a great deal ..
Keith Dsouza
April 30, 2007 at 1:51 am
The reason i did not move to wordpress was because I was getting used to Joomla, but when I realized how tedious it was getting to post an article an follow up on a comment i decided to move.
Also there is way too many tools for wordpress using which I can even post on my site using the comfort of my desktop, so many factors made me do that.
But am glad since the tips i will get from you and many others will definitely help me improve me using wordpress.
Grace
April 30, 2007 at 2:31 am
Wordpress is a nice content manager system indeed. It looks okay next to Joomla and Mambo.
Robert Irizarry
April 30, 2007 at 5:14 am
Keith - I just made the move to Wordpress from Blogger and its night and day. Wordpress is amazing and I love the active community of plugin developers. With that power comes some complexity and the occasional unexplained glitch but overall I’m happy to have made the move.
Curious - How was your move from Joomla? The Blogger to Wordpress move was not without its difficulties but generally smooth. The hardest thing was dealing with the images. I found a means to import the images into the corresponding Wordpress articles but Blogger had some seriously ridiculous folder structures along with filenames which made no sense. I spent the better part of a day creating new structures, renaming images and relinking them all. At least its all done now.
Blain Reinkensmeyer
April 30, 2007 at 5:24 am
good deal, but now I have to leave more comments more often, haha!
Keith Dsouza
April 30, 2007 at 5:55 am
Hey Robert,
The move was smooth but only after i wrote some custom scripts to move the categories and posts along with their comments.
I also had to run few alter commands on the database after the move, but that’s one advantage of being a software engineer and running a blog :), i am gonna detail out if any one wants to make a move in future from Joomla making it just a one click process.
Investing Blog
April 30, 2007 at 6:38 am
Lol, I second Blain’s comment. I sure do appreciate your kind gesture of sharing link love with your readers.
I actually shun high traffic blogs that omit the Top commentators plug-in. Why not share the Google love with those who helped to build your blog?
Keep up the good work..
Ryan J. Parker
April 30, 2007 at 6:44 am
5k uniques isn’t bad.
Bat
April 30, 2007 at 10:16 am
Err..quite shocking for a PR 6 blog to offer this..Besides 5k visitors..I think I’ll use this plugin too, thanks John.
Mr.Byte
April 30, 2007 at 10:53 am
5000+ unique hits!!! At least some should see the Top Commentors section right? So get 5000 unique hits and you get 22000 alexa rank….man, that’s gonna take lot of time and effort for me to achieve this
subhash
April 30, 2007 at 11:44 am
being such a famous blog,i expected a lot more traffic from johntp
subhash
April 30, 2007 at 11:46 am
everyone is shifting to wordpress from blogger dese days…But im just trying to make blogger better searching all the features that wordpress has and trying to apply them 2 my blog just like trackback which i introduced yesterday…….
Latest Technology
April 30, 2007 at 1:09 pm
The new blogger is too cool …but wordpress is cooler …i use blogger but i ve a got a taste of wordpress as xoops module and is great to work upon ,a lot of wonderful themes are available in wordpress..
Cool tips and tricks
April 30, 2007 at 2:43 pm
I have set mine to reset monthly. I did not think that reseting weekly will make people coming back more often. I like to think that those who come back, do this to read the new posts, not to refresh their link.
Online Technology
April 30, 2007 at 7:28 pm
: I agree with you to an extent, but this can lure more people to comment. But then author should be ready for a comment like “Thats Cool” too.
lyndonmaxewell
April 30, 2007 at 8:15 pm
wow 5K hits is indeed alot! Sometimes i just don’t understand Analytics.. It says that I only had 53 unique visitors yesterday, yet my Alexa went below 100K yesterday. Things just don’t seem to match up.
Online Technology
April 30, 2007 at 8:18 pm
: Alexa rank depends how far you have reached. Meaning how may people around the globe have visited you. More you are know around the globe better alexa rank you will have
lyndonmaxewell
April 30, 2007 at 8:42 pm
yea, I was thinking how is it possible for a website that has a thousand uniques a day be worst off in Alexa ranking than mine. (For a day for that matter). Seems like Alexa or Analytics is weird in this case.
Online Technology
April 30, 2007 at 8:52 pm
: Its like if people are using alexa tool bar and surfing around they give points to the site and hence alexa ranking increases. Now There is an experimentation of installing the alexa script on the site itself. Hence every visit will execute that script and increase your alexa rank. Its funny though but This explains a lot of things. I have always wondered how alexa ranking is measures without having anything on the site itself. I used t thought that Alexa used to get the traffic details from hosting like in numbers but then I was wrong. Its the script that does that. Similar to Blogtopsites Image people put around. If you dont you are not there. This is ridiculous thought, but since its a standard best is to put it there.Might work.
Analytics, Is just a tool. To analyze your traffic and other things. Both are two different entity
Ronald
April 30, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Grace - I agree with you, and i’ve read many articles, they said wordpress is a powerfull CMS and fully help for SEO. and the next Joomla and Mambo…
JohnTP - I thought this is a good deal :). Many thank’s.
Robert Irizarry
April 30, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Online Technology - I’m sorry are you saying there’s a hack for executing the Alexa script from your website? I’m curious to hear more. I’m also guessing this violates TOS?
latest technology
April 30, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Xoops is also a great CMS and its wordpress module is also great .looks like a everyone is fighting for the top slot..
good luck where is john no post since a long time..
Online Technology
April 30, 2007 at 10:30 pm
: Its not hack. Just install the script of alexa and thats it. It gets executed everytime and your traffic counts
Tech Crunch 2.0
May 1, 2007 at 12:02 am
hmm….5000 unique visitors is really something….
Chris
May 1, 2007 at 12:07 am
Cool post John.
Robert: If you’re interested in reducing your Alexa number, you can get their little widget to install on your site, and display your number. The thinking is, every time your page is viewed, it reports to Alexa, so the figure is more accurate. Can’t hurt….
Mr.Byte
May 1, 2007 at 12:17 am
, Online Technology, you mean the alexa widget?
BlogNews
May 1, 2007 at 2:33 am
This is great John what a slick way to increase the activity on your blog
Abdul Aziz
May 1, 2007 at 4:08 am
Thanks for the generosity
Ashish Mohta
May 1, 2007 at 8:10 am
: Yes you got it. Its the widget that does everything, no hancks
subhash
May 1, 2007 at 10:13 am
lot of comments this time for john…a massive increase
Garry Conn
May 1, 2007 at 11:32 am
John, nice job giving comps to the readers… I like the 6 day comment refresh option. This is more balanced for regular readers, once in awhile readers and the once a month readers who play catch up. Great work.
Madhur Kapoor
May 1, 2007 at 11:40 am
Does having the Alexa widget has the same effect as viewing the website with the Alexa Toolbar .
Vince Cordic
May 1, 2007 at 11:49 am
I was wondering when they were gonna fix that, thanks for the heads up. Looks like it’s got the comments pouring in for you on this post at least.
Ashish Mohta
May 1, 2007 at 12:23 pm
: I guess yes but I am not very sure about it. Alexa widget will work for your site but having alexa toolbar will work for every site you visit, thats is you give points to every site you visit by alexa toolbar…Thats what I think
Philip Seyfi
May 2, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Nice update! It should really encourage us to comment more as it was quite hard to enter the top-5 list
Ari
May 2, 2007 at 8:09 pm
I think a week is a great idea. I’ll pay more attention now to get my comments in early. So if I understand correctly, at the beginning of the week you could get to the top commenter list with just a couple of comments. At least until someone else posts higher than you.
Cars Lovers Space
May 3, 2007 at 9:50 am
first time to here.
JohnTp, are you JohnChow?
JohnTP
May 3, 2007 at 11:03 am
Cars Lovers Space- That is the funniest question any reader has ever asked me.
JohnTP and John Chow are 2 different people. JohnTP is good and John Chow is evil
J.B.Slife
May 3, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Sounds like enough motivation to me to leave a comment.
Nirmal
May 3, 2007 at 10:39 pm
5000 unique visits is too good.
John, I liked your answer to Cars Lovers Space :-), really loved it.
Robert Irizarry
May 4, 2007 at 12:09 am
Chris: Interesting idea about the widget but has anyone actually confirmed that it executes the same as if the user had the toolbar installed in their browser?
JohnTP
May 4, 2007 at 1:08 am
Robert Irizarry- Install the Alexa rank button on your blog for a few weeks and see if your Alexa rank increases. It helps me, that is why I still have it on my sidebar.
The Thinking Blog
May 5, 2007 at 1:32 am
Sounds like a deal.. I’ve been commenting already! =)
DanielCtw
June 20, 2007 at 12:24 pm
I am still using blogger. Well, never know when I’ll change to wordpress though
danielctw
August 10, 2007 at 4:14 pm
this is indeed a good practice.
I am doing this too….
Praveen
October 9, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Hi,
Im eagerly waiting for top commentator widget for blogspot……..
apiz
July 25, 2008 at 11:23 pm
i’ve download the plugin, nice and pretty useful.tq
Bernard
September 1, 2008 at 10:40 am
Any idea how to get avatars to appear in show top commentators? I know my readers would really enjoy this!