CommentLuv Premium Review: Thumbs Down From Me

I bought the CommentLuv Premium WordPress plugin around 2 months back and tried it on my website.

Here are the main features of the plugin:

• Depending on your settings it lets people who comment on your website leave – a link to a recent post they’ve written, a link to their Twitter profile and/or their keywords as anchor text with a link back to their website.
• You can provide additional incentives, like giving a commenter’s link ‘DoFollow’ status, if they leave a certain number of comments on your blog, or share your post on social networks.
• Owners of the CommentLuv Premium plugin can search for other people who have the plugin installed, in order to leave comments on their websites.

These features are meant to increase traffic to your website and get you more comments. Which is great.

Why I didn’t like the plugin is because the majority of people who commented on my website, as a result of the incentives provided by CommentLuv, did so with the intention of getting backlinks. So the quality of the comments was not the best and the plugin made people comment for all the wrong reasons. I want them to comment because they like what I’ve written and because they really want to contribute/add to the discussion.

And therefore I decided to try the Livefyre commenting system/plugin, which packs some great, interactive and free features.

Now this is my personal opinion and experience, after using the CommentLuv plugin on a new website. Perhaps it works better in other situations.

There are many people who do like the plugin, so have a look at their reviews as well to get a balanced perspective (Pro Blogging Success, Traffic Generation Cafe, Famous Blogger’s CommentLuv Premium Review).