Quick Fix for Unluved Commenters

The CommentLuv (official site here) plugin is a popular way of rewarding your commenters by linking back to their most recent blog post. The idea is that it increases a commenter’s visitors and perhaps the number of comments on the Luving blog. I’m not sure if the links are “followed” or not, but that could have an impact on the commenter’s SEO as well.

Until last night, I had been feeling extremely unloved by CommentLuv. I’d comment on Luving sites and my latest post wouldn’t show up. At first I found it frustrating, then embarrassing, then I just gave up. I still commented, but I didn’t expect anything. One day, though, I shared my frustration with Jeff, who was dealing with the same issue. Last night he sent me an e-mail which helped.

If CommentLuv Can’t Find Your Latest Post

Step-by-step through the problem and the fix:

1. CommentLuv autodetects feeds. So it tried to get a response from http://blogcrafted.com/feed/
2. Until last night, going to http://blogcrafted.com/feed/ resulted in a 404 error. Feedreaders detected my feed, but the first place they try (and only place Comment Luv tried) took you to my nifty 404 page.
3. Because CommentLuv couldn’t detect my feed, it couldn’t find my latest post.
4. The fix: I went into my Feedburner Feedsmith area. Sure enough, I had left off the http:// and the feed’s address simply read: “feeds.feedburner.com/blogcrafted” instead of “http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogcrafted”. I added a simple “http://” and voila!

If CommentLuv hasn’t been recognizing your blog’s posts, I recommend checking your Feedburner Feedsmith area, if you’re using Feedsmith. Add the http:// if it’s missing. Also, check out http://yoursite.com/feed/ and see what shows up.

Good luck!

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Ms. Crafty enjoys long walks on the beach mountains, Wordpress, clean code, and (some days) Thesis. Her specialties include theme customization and blog migration. She also loves to write about ways to make your site better.