6 Wordpress Plugins to Increase Comments

1. CommentLuv

Adding the CommentLuv Wordpress plugin to your blog is a great way to show your readers that you value them and the comments they leave on your blog posts. With CommentLuv, every comment left on your blog automatically includes a snippet and link back to the commenter's most recent blog post (assuming the identifying information in their submitted comment form tracks back to a blog with a feed from which the most recent blog post can be scraped). Bloggers love this Wordpress plugin because it can increase traffic to their own blogs more so than a traditional comment link from their names can.

2. Show Top Commentators

Most people are inherently competitive and like recognition. The Show Top Commentators Wordpress plug-in leverages both of those innate desires by recognizing and rewarding the most vocal people in your blog's community. Using the Show Top Commentators plugin, you can create an automated list (which you can reset on a daily, weekly or monthly basis) that displays a list of people who are the most frequent commentators on your blog. The list includes a Google-friendly link back to each commenter's blog or website. A word of caution, many users report an increase in spam comments when using the Show Top Commentators Wordpress plugin. However, the plugin does include settings to help you filter out spam comments.

4. Do Follow

The Do Follow Plugin for Wordpress removes the NoFollow tag from all comments left on your blog thereby rewarding commenters by ensuring links left within their comments count in Google searches.

5. Wordpress Thread Comment

The Wordpress Thread Comment plugin enhances the functionality of commenting on Wordpress blogs by enabling people to comment on any existing comment within a thread of comments and view those comments as a threaded or nested conversation. Some users report having to modify the email messages and other wording that is programmed into the plugin to clean up grammar, etc., but the functionality is great, particularly for blogs that receive a lot of comments.

6. Most Commented

The Most Commented plugin automatically generates and displays a list of the posts on your blogs that have the most comments. The theory is that people will be interested in posts that other people are talking about. Posts with a lot of comments attract people to click on the links and take a closer look to see what the buzz is about.