Blogging is a community which you form with your readers. Without commentators, there will be no conversation in a blog and it will be a dull situation. A new blog will have so many obstacles and this is one of them. Consider you as a Hurdler. Once the race starts the first few jumps will seem to be tough and the upcoming ones would be easy because you are used to it. Comparing this with the new blogs, getting comments at the early stage is pretty tough and you need to apply an extra force. There are many extra forces available. One such extra force for a new blog is the Top Commentators’ Plugin.
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Now this plugin has been very famous and most blogs use it to get more comments. As you can see, I have it installed on the right column. The main reason why people comment on these blogs is because they get a link back.
I have seen few blogs with the Top Commentators’ column running for long time and the top commentator owing nearly 80 comments. The main reason for installing this plugin is to give the commentators a link back when they get to the list. But when the readers see the comments number at 80, they won’t comment(70% they won’t unless you have made a very good post or he/she is a fan of your blog).
Why Should You Refresh The Top Commentators Column?
The main reason why you should refresh the Top Commentators column is to give your new commentators a chance to get a link back. You will also get more comments. And one thing I do when people mail me about link exchange is that I tell them to make a comment on my blog on Sunday so that they will get a link back. By this way you don’t have to link to me and still you get a link back.
How To Refresh The Top Commentators Plugin?
First Download the plugin if you have not. Then once you install it, you can make changes to the plugin. There are nearly 5 options available for you namely,
- Hourly
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- #
I would suggest you to weekly or use the ‘#’ and specify the number of days. Once you are done with it, your top commentators plugin will start to refresh every week or month or whatever you have specified. Before saving the changes use the Filter Users option and Enter your name in it so that you will not be shown in Top commentators. If I don’t so it, then I would be at the Top every week because I reply to every comment I get. So don’t forget to set the ‘refresh’ option and the filter user option. Now you have done everything right. Most probably you will start to receive many comments. But beware of spam, you might get few which you can delete using Akismet. Do you refresh the Top Commentators Plugin? How much is the interval you have set for it to refresh?
