If you notice on the right hand side I added a top commenters. I wrote this wordpress plugin last night. It basically gives a link (not nofollow) to the top 10 commenters over the last 7 day period. So people who comment frequently get a reward. I mean you are adding value to my site with your input so why shouldnt I give you a link?
This is also a fun thing for me to keep my somewhat php skills alive. That also means you might see some errors as I play with formatting.
Also if I think you are just trying to rack up your comment count you will be blacklisted.
I do not mind giving people a link but those spamming comments just to get SEO value will not be tolerated. You know what you are doing dont make me explain it.
- Comment Likes 
- Comment Dislikes
January 6, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Great Blog, I am definitely a fan. Did you design it yourself?
January 5, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Wow I wish I had thought of this. Thanks for the post, I definitely like!!!!
Atlanta Locskmiths
December 7, 2009 at 2:09 am
here i am, i am joining yours now,
December 2, 2009 at 10:53 am
What is environmental rating system for suppliers?
December 1, 2009 at 8:58 am
How to Make Your Website Appear Top in Search Engine ?
November 27, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Yeah i noticed it was buggy also, the pages here load very slowly. I guess it happens from time to time with sites
November 24, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Thanks for the info! Great post.
November 20, 2009 at 5:01 pm
I love this plug in
November 1, 2009 at 10:15 am
Thanks for your great article. There is so much junk on the internet it is hard to find good quality information when you really need it. I just came across your site and have bookmarked it. Look forward to reading more in the future keep us posted.
October 20, 2009 at 11:04 am
Nice informative site, thanks for sharing with me. Enjoyed reading it.
October 20, 2009 at 11:01 am
somewhat, it is something i never figure out, why you do it…
what is your true intention by doing such thing?
October 6, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Thank’s, Great Share !
September 30, 2009 at 12:04 pm
I must say that your post is very informative. I enjoyed reading it. Keep up a good work. Thanks
August 31, 2009 at 12:07 am
Will definitely visit this site again: )
August 5, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Its really cool man. And hope you got how cool it was by comments from lot’s of people.
July 16, 2009 at 11:31 am
How Much Value we Put Into our PageRank ?
July 10, 2009 at 11:56 am
You need to identify Industry trends and also needs to do a little bit of a research work before targeting the market.
June 20, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Thanks for this great and very useful plugin.
May 6, 2009 at 2:07 am
Great Post Thanx.
May 4, 2009 at 4:49 pm
This article is actually really helpful – some of the other articles here are great as well.
I will definitely keep tuned to here since I am just setting up a blog myself.
April 8, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Well thought out post. Been lurking around on your website for some time now…
Just thought I would finally reply on one of your posts to let you know I exist
March 8, 2009 at 2:12 am
This is nice. Thank you
March 4, 2009 at 11:13 am
Hi,
Thank for the Top Commenters Plugin.
March 2, 2009 at 6:19 am
Thanks for this feature. I will try comment at Shoemoney to get more traffic.
February 1, 2009 at 6:34 am
Thanks for this feature. It boosts me to be active on your blog.
January 27, 2009 at 10:32 pm
I read somewhere that the top commentators plugin is great not only for the people posting, but it also good to have on your blog because it will encourage more people to post comments. Thanks for using this plugin.
January 19, 2009 at 4:36 pm
I thought the Top Commentators plugin was a new thing but looks like you have had it for nearly 2 years!!! Very pioneering!
January 18, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Good plugin..!! Now lock your previous posts after 30 days or your going to face alot of spam lol
January 2, 2009 at 7:26 pm
This will definitely help increase your site’s comments. Great plugin by the way.
January 1, 2009 at 10:05 pm
7 days – holy cow! I thought it reset each month. I was thinking I could get in near the bottom with about 1 comment per day which seemed decent. But 30 odd comments (hopefully not too odd) in 7 days. I’ll give ‘er a shot.
December 31, 2008 at 2:07 pm
For some Odd reason i was top commenter before and i just vanished of the list? when people had less comments then me were still on it.
November 29, 2008 at 5:04 am
Excellent idea. Very noble of you to share the love. Still, you are right, this could help the community flourish by inspiring more interaction.
November 20, 2008 at 3:59 pm
This is a cool way to keep people reading being a part of the community here. Every 7 days is an interesting way to do it. Really keeps people back early and often. Pretty neat stuff Shoe.
November 15, 2008 at 4:45 am
They is a problem in my URL when I comment URL is http://www.seocreations.com/ but when profile comes on homepage under top commentators it showing http://www.websitetreats.com/.
Why it showing http://www.websitetreats.com/ ? as my URL is http://www.seocreations.com/
Please check it and make it correct.
November 4, 2008 at 2:25 am
Awesome and great idea
October 31, 2008 at 6:48 am
Man you are smart! Nice idea! That will increase a lot the comments in your blog!
October 17, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Hey,
is the plugin ready yet?
October 2, 2008 at 5:44 pm
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/new-meme-tag-five-friends-to-register-to-vote/
He’s watching you. Rukus, trouble maker apparently, eh?
September 23, 2008 at 3:59 pm
good thinking, but pay attention to spam messages
September 21, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Hi webmaster!
September 18, 2008 at 1:31 pm
dont it gets spam attack
September 7, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Very glad to say you have utilized this plugin,
Actually I love your blog!
September 1, 2008 at 8:44 pm
I’m seeing that the number of comments that the top ones have made is about 35 something. Within one week, isn’t that spammy? Or is there any problem with your widget?
August 27, 2008 at 9:04 am
This is really awsome. I will try to be in top 10
March 20, 2008 at 12:23 am
This site rocks
March 9, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Yep, I like this feature. Paul Stamatiou also uses it, and I believe it works!!
March 1, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Thanks for this feature. It boosts me to be active on your blog.
February 22, 2008 at 2:20 pm
This is definately a cool feature that many blogs should implement into their sites. It gives some incentive for people to return more often and contribute to the discussion, which is one of the great things about blogs.
February 21, 2008 at 6:41 pm
This is an excellant idea! It’s one good way of getting extra content added to a blog without having to create it yourself. I like it.
February 18, 2008 at 11:48 pm
What a great model for encouraging content generation. As soon as I figure out how to pull that off with blogger I will apply that myself. Right now I am not for sure but thanks again for the example.
Rob West
February 13, 2008 at 5:34 am
You are right, there’s been lots of blogs who added the plugin but now disabled it to prevent spam
February 12, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Great way of getting more comments and rewarding your visitors, also improves traffic since i’m now bookmarking your site, pure genius! i promise to post only relevant comments
February 9, 2008 at 4:52 am
Great idea! This is a really great resource of informations.
January 19, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Hmm… the idea is not bad but be careful. You can attract a lot of spammers with it!
Many people do crazy things for a stupid link back to their sites.
January 17, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Now does it to CurrentDate-7 or does it do say, Sunday-Sunday resetting at the same time each week?
January 15, 2008 at 2:38 pm
That’s awesome more bloggers should think about the people rather than the search engines.
December 27, 2007 at 9:03 am
Very nice tool
This will improve comments
December 26, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Im not much of a coder…I really like this feature though, do you have any post on how to add it to the ones own site easly.?
December 16, 2007 at 3:19 am
Time to get to #1 spot! Least this gives me something to do whilst my server is down.
~ Dave
December 5, 2007 at 12:23 pm
I like the idea as well, have you though about releasing the plugin, I’d sure like to add something like that to my site. If you haven’t released it, feel free to email it to me, and I can add with a permalink to any site of your choice. Deal?
December 3, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Thats cool man. I really like it. Gives some people some advertising on a site they would never usually get on.
November 30, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Can you tell me your CTR?
November 24, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Thats an awesome idea! To attract more commenters and popularize your blog! It could be very useful for new blogs. This script u wrote.
November 22, 2007 at 4:46 pm
these plugins already exist, why would you need to make one yourself?
November 15, 2007 at 3:07 pm
lol, outside the “a” tags…. this blog is tough, it eats spaces and symbols too!
November 15, 2007 at 3:07 pm
outside the tags, sorry, the last comment ate the tag.
November 15, 2007 at 3:05 pm
I think top comentators is a great idea but it’s still broken in a sense.
I see people posting as “home improvement” and “search engine optimization” and such but they’re getting no value for that anchor text because the text is REALLY “home improvement (16) “. You sadly dont get credit for “home improvement” with the numbers attached. Simple fix, move the number generator outside the tags and voila…. real shoemoney made cred!
November 12, 2007 at 7:58 am
Was it written from scratch or did you base it off of another plugin? Just curious as I’m going to be fiddling with mine shortly too and might not want to start from scratch completely.
November 1, 2007 at 12:54 am
Any chance you might release that plugin?
October 12, 2007 at 10:01 am
I see lots of people are asking, so I need to join them. Are you going to offer the pluggin to the public? I’d certainly like to use it. I downloaded one recently but the thing didn’t work.
October 8, 2007 at 12:09 am
This is a great idea Jeremy – I didn’t even notice it until I appeared on it but this is a great treat
September 29, 2007 at 3:55 am
Thank you shoemoney. I didn’t realise you had this plugin until I wound up on the list. It’s a great idea.
September 11, 2007 at 9:49 am
That’s a great idea! top commentors every 7 days? wow, I see the competition is enormous
September 10, 2007 at 11:27 pm
thats not what i use
September 8, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Great plugin, nice design on it to. Would be nice if you could release the one you’ve wrote.
September 5, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Google is your best friend!
pfadvice.com/wordpress-plugins/show-top-commentators/
August 29, 2007 at 11:55 am
Nice plugin, works good! Will you post it to the public?
August 10, 2007 at 8:52 am
This is a great plugin! I have a different version on my blog and I think that its a great way to reward visitors
August 3, 2007 at 7:11 am
really nice plugin.. saw it on quite some blogs already, but didn’t know that you wrote it.
July 29, 2007 at 5:38 pm
You know you really don’t need to worry about seo at this point.
July 18, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Hey, is this free plugin?
I also want to use it in my blog. Where can I get it?
July 18, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Thats impressive.
Bloggers also should think about the readers not only about the search engines and monthly revenue.
Good work!
July 17, 2007 at 6:30 pm
I love this idea!…I just grabbed the code you posted in hopes to apply it on my site…ehhhh…maybe i need to go to rentacoder ;/
July 13, 2007 at 5:54 am
I like this plug you wrote, it’s helping me for my blog
June 25, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Any word on the plugin?
June 21, 2007 at 6:16 pm
This is awesome. I can’t seem to post though, maybe it will work this time. And I’m unsure of URI haha.
June 1, 2007 at 10:42 am
niceee, i didnt know about this, i found out from technorati saying im being linked from shoemoney =0D
May 29, 2007 at 5:12 pm
I think that I’ve found a bug of sorts. There seems to be more than one Paul. I suppose this is my own fault for not choosing to respond under a more unique name (I’m now including my last name) but – sometimes the top commentator links to my site/blog, other times it links to another member.
May 21, 2007 at 11:50 am
Would you be willing to give this little plugin out? I think it would be a cool addon to my blog as it grows.
May 20, 2007 at 1:20 pm
This is a great way to increase comments.
Good idea.
May 16, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Nice one shoe. I’d consider putting it on my blog when I start getting comments…haha.
May 4, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Definitely a good idea – I have even removed the nofollow attribute from people who comment as standard. This has dramatically increased user interaction over at my blog.
- Martin Reed
April 22, 2007 at 5:09 am
This is certainly better than enabling dofollow for all commenters. Encouraging comments is one thing, but yes, it should be watched for people trying to simply bolster their sites with one word comments
April 17, 2007 at 12:09 am
This is a really cool idea! I really admire people who come up with stuff like this.
April 11, 2007 at 8:35 pm
When does this script update? I have seen other adaptations of this script and they seemed to b real time, but yours doesn’t.
April 11, 2007 at 10:58 am
This is a great way to increase comments. I now feel rewarded for when I leave my useless input.
April 9, 2007 at 3:09 pm
very nice and kind of you mate =)
April 9, 2007 at 6:25 am
Are you going to make that plugin public? It’s a great idea and I can’t belive no one else has come up with it yet. Is it for sale?
April 6, 2007 at 8:50 pm
That’s cool Jeremy. thx I’m trying to hook up something similar on my community site.
April 1, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Are you going to release this for others to put on their blogs? I like the concept.
March 11, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Comments have gone up.
March 11, 2007 at 4:51 am
I’d like to install it on my blog too. Seems a great way to promote comments. Can you share a link to the plugin?
Regards, George
March 9, 2007 at 11:44 pm
i am wondering can we have link that show all time comment stats aswell. so that i can see all time comment poster here. Just an idea.
March 9, 2007 at 4:08 pm
This is a great way to pay back loyal readers. Thanks for the plugs.
March 9, 2007 at 4:33 am
It’s so cool, I should leave more comment
March 3, 2007 at 5:43 am
It is an interesting idea. Can you publish your results about the effect of this marketing technique?
March 1, 2007 at 9:05 am
This has been creating a lot of recent activity b/c people love backlinks from your site. Great addition, I just hope it doesn’t get to the point where people are commenting anything just for the backlink.
February 28, 2007 at 8:51 pm
When will you be releasing this script? I’d love to add it to my blog.
February 28, 2007 at 8:09 pm
I did the same thing and it’s helped stimulate conversations a good bit. Actually, I had top commenters before, but it was top of all time, and there were a number on the list that had long since stopped coming by. So I shortened the window to make it more representative.
February 28, 2007 at 8:06 pm
hook me up with that job…
February 27, 2007 at 10:23 pm
ok, indeed it seems to be a conflict with CoComment. Eeven though I am signed out of CoComment the CoComment bar still appeasrs in the comment box and the submit comment process seems to hang forever… physiclaly clicking the “x” on the Cocomment bar and then pressing “Submit” makes the comments work correctly … shame, though, becuase CoComment is very much a part of my blogging … ideas from the rish and famous … or just somebody who knows how CoComment and WordPress interact?
February 27, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Hmmm, just to add some info to the hunt, it appears the problem might be relates to CoComment. My comment above sat more thna 2 hours without a response, I turned off coComment, refreshed the SM page and reposted … instant gratification.
February 27, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Don’t think it’s related to the Top Commenters implementation but there is some kind of distinct issue with the comments in general. Most of the time when I log in the “normal” way … I read your comments on the OpenID issues .., and have some of my own, have no idea whey you are actually uisng it, makes MBL look secure
… anyway. the server just sits there afyter I click the Add Comment button and doe snothing … even an hour later nothing will have happened. A few weeks ago I pressed the button more thna 100 times and the next day saw that my comment had actually gone through … twice, sorry ’bout that.
It’s aWordPress infrastructure, so sthings should work the same as other blogs (using Windows XP and FireFox 1.5.0.10 …. wonder what’s up?
February 27, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Look forward in you releasing the plugin.
February 27, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Ive been doing this too and its workign well.
February 27, 2007 at 2:00 pm
You comments probably were in moderation, they go in there if you haven’t had an accepted comment before or if it’s got a link.
February 27, 2007 at 9:30 am
Just my $0,02 cents
instead of
unix_timestamp(comment_date)>unix_timestamp(NOW())-(60*60*24*7)
try
comment_date > NOW() – INTERVAL 7 DAY
February 27, 2007 at 7:09 am
I agree. Running a top commentators plugin does increase comments. There is probably also a correlation between the blog’s PR and whether or not the links are “no follow”.
February 27, 2007 at 5:25 am
Jeremy, it would be cool if you could report what kind of increase on the number of comments per post you noticed after implementing the plugin
February 27, 2007 at 5:17 am
I plan on adding a feature like this on my blog as soon as I start getting comments
It’s a good way of getting people interacting when you are already established but how does one get readers to comment on a newer blog?
February 27, 2007 at 1:13 am
Great Features from you again..
February 26, 2007 at 9:07 pm
My comments aren’t usually serious, neither are they of 2 word “good job” variety.
Tending to post comments only when I think they are relevant, maybe I will post less comments knowing that they will scrutinised more closely.
February 26, 2007 at 8:53 pm
I was putting up comments, but not all are showing, and I’ve certainly added more than 4, yet not on the list. Any restrictions or time limits going on? Thanks.
February 26, 2007 at 7:49 pm
I planned on adding a Top Commentors section to my sidebar as well. But my server is down for the time being. Shoe, I trust you don’t mind if I use your 7 day “mod”?
February 26, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Shoe , This was really cool of you man!!!
February 26, 2007 at 7:28 pm
It’s a brilliant idea.
February 26, 2007 at 7:23 pm
I have the same thing (except pulled out to the last thirty days) by taking this plugin and modifying the select query so that it only counted comments in the last thirty days.
February 26, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Suprised you didn’t use an already coded wordpress plugin, I need to use this on my blog.
February 26, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I think that’s a great plugin idea.. look forward to implementing it as well..
February 26, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Is the comment list based on daily? It looks like it changed from total to daily.
February 26, 2007 at 3:10 pm
did you actually write the plugin yourself? It looks like a really clean plugin. The one I’m working with has some bugs so all my recent commentators are all jumbled up. Will you be releasing your version any time soon! Keep up the great work!
February 26, 2007 at 11:57 am
Jeremy you are already delivering so much to webmaster community for ‘free’ and now this is like “bonus’ama”
Good Luck.
February 26, 2007 at 11:09 am
On a couple other pages too I think, just not in single posts.
February 26, 2007 at 10:59 am
Very slick, I’ve found that doing this leads to a lot of conversation… which is the point of blogging anyway.
February 26, 2007 at 10:23 am
It’s only on the home page.
February 26, 2007 at 10:13 am
Guess I should start including one of my URL’s in my replies from now on!
February 26, 2007 at 9:51 am
George – I don’t see the list either. Maybe Shoemoney took it down for testing / configuration?
February 26, 2007 at 9:50 am
It’s because we (programmers) get paid by the line and not the results!
February 26, 2007 at 9:49 am
I have not seen a traffic increase but my Technorati ranking sure shot up fast!
February 26, 2007 at 9:27 am
I understand the principle, but I’m sorry to say I’ve seen the noise to signal ratio, going wild in all the blogs adopting this list/reward. Well I guess I’ll quit reading the comments here, no biggy.
Just look at the comments above and you’ll see see what is coming.
February 26, 2007 at 8:33 am
Is it just me? I don’t see the top commentors list…
February 26, 2007 at 8:02 am
Oh look, now everyone’s commenting… Couldn’t have predicted that!
Just a quick thing though… “A bunch of monkeys took 0.143 seconds to build this.” – I never noticed that bit before!
February 26, 2007 at 7:52 am
Layout looks nice.
Pooh.. didnt make the list !
February 26, 2007 at 7:23 am
Not sure if there is a way to connect URLs to an open ID. Although I’m sure Shoe could write something.
February 26, 2007 at 7:07 am
I have been seeing this type of thing pop up on other site recently. Not totally sure what I think about it. I mean it is great to get a linkback, but if folks are busy just saying, “great job!” or “good post” or “You’re right on – keep up the good work!” that is exactly what 99.9% of my spam comments are – what is the difference even if a human being is typing it?
…although, you notice, I did list my URL – ah well, I guess I can be bought for the price of a quality backlink *sigh*
February 26, 2007 at 6:57 am
BAH! I will make the list without a URL just to piss off 50 people.
February 26, 2007 at 12:10 am
Awesome idea shoe!! I’m in!
February 25, 2007 at 11:48 pm
I want to post comment here and want to received that link from your top commenters but I can’t because until now I am preferred to post comment about your blogpost through my blog.
February 25, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Quote Shoe:
“well that will be very easy to tell… all comments are moderated so people will be blacklisted fast.”
February 25, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Pretty neeto of you to do this Shoe.
Anyway, you took the thumbs off? I can’t see them anymore (and OpenID causes problems for me… it always asks me to sign in when I try to post…)
February 25, 2007 at 10:17 pm
great way to reward people for posting good comments… as you have in past, I continue to impressed when some of the big guys in the internet marketing world willing give back.
February 25, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Thanks shoe… as usual
CRAZY IDEAS
February 25, 2007 at 9:50 pm
You will get an increase of comments for sure… I know I’ve never commented before but now I’m going to say what I think more often.
February 25, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Homepage only.
February 25, 2007 at 8:41 pm
I wonder if this will spawn many “this is my comment.” comments, ie, meaningless ones. But definitely a way to get more comments, something every blogger wants. The collaborative aspect of comments is often a great way to get new ideas.
And last but not least: this is my comment.
February 25, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Hmm… I want that link. Who doesn’t? Don’t you want to be linked by highly ranked, viewed and read blog on the planet. You must be out of your mind if you don’t! Seriously – I read shoemoney – almost daily now. Kinda like his writing style – very informative and speak his mind out loud. Perhaps – those are the skills to pay bills.
February 25, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Hi,
Are you still going to force OpenId, Won’t this make the benifit of being a top commentator redundent?
February 25, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Nice Feature!
February 25, 2007 at 7:23 pm
I added this at Marketing Pilgrim last week and have been happy with it so far. You will have some try to game the system, which is why I added a comments policy.
February 25, 2007 at 7:02 pm
There already is a Wordpress plugin for this feature. I’ve been using it for a few weeks and it helped stimulate some comments on my growing blog.
February 25, 2007 at 7:01 pm
I like the concept but are you not worried people post useless comments just for the link?
February 25, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Very good idea – wonder how long it will take to be more trouble than it’s worth thanks to spammers.
February 25, 2007 at 6:06 pm
I agree. You write for your target audience. You don’t see automakers making cars based on what the police think do you?
February 25, 2007 at 5:18 pm
awww I liked it better when it had MBL faces
February 25, 2007 at 4:58 pm
That’s a pretty good idea.
February 25, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Sweet idea Shoe. I think you’re going to see your comments shoot up a little
.
February 25, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Very, very cool. I would love to run such a plug in, but right now, I’m not locating the section. Do you have it down for revision?
February 25, 2007 at 4:44 pm
I know I’ve left more than 3 comments. I want to be on the list!
February 25, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Yee,
it’s time to start commenting more seriously
February 25, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Great plugin! Let us know when you release it
I know this is version 0.1 but for a performance boost, you might want to break it down to two queries. This one EXPLAINs as “Using temporary; Using filesort”
February 25, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Yeah with the amount of traffic he gets here this is a good turnover ratio. I use 1 month on my site, and a lot of sites do this, too, but at some point if you left it on forever new people would never be able to catch up.
February 25, 2007 at 4:11 pm
I’m sure you’ve already seen it but PFA has one called “Show Top Commentators” that a lot of sites already use.
The only complaint I have is that the URL filtering doesn’t seem to work right.
February 25, 2007 at 4:09 pm
OH NO NOT THE EVIL SEARCH ENGINES!
Great idea, and my personal opinion is that you should embrace your top commentator whores:
http://www.ryanjparker.net/why-you-should-embrace-top-commentator-whores/
I hope you don’t mind me becoming a whore.
February 25, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Thanks for rewarding us commentors for contributing to the blog!
February 25, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Excellent idea. Very noble of you to share the love. Still, you are right, this could help the community flourish by inspiring more interaction.
February 25, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Nice idea (already done, thought).
I think you have to adjust the html code or maybe check it with Firefox 1.5.x
February 25, 2007 at 3:39 pm
I love how these small “ideas” we (programmers) have turn into huge pieces of software by the time we’re done with them.
You start simple then keep adding on and on to the point whre you just give-up! Well, that’s what I end up doing!
February 25, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Nice idea, should work well
February 25, 2007 at 3:33 pm
This is a great idea. It will be interesting to see if your overall contributions go up with this new incentive to comment. You should track it for a few weeks and see if the trend goes up.
February 25, 2007 at 3:29 pm
That’s interesting – you’re right though, people design websites for people, not search engines. If you design it for people then the search engines will like you anyway… however this ties in with the “top x lists” seem to go well down on the internet. I remember in the early days of my website the BBC’s site reprinted my top ten list of games on the site – seems people want to know what/who’s popular (or in this case commenting).
February 25, 2007 at 3:22 pm
EDIT: I’m guessing that you did it for the last 7 days so that it’s constantly changing and not ratings overall because some people would be at the top forever… ?
-Todd
February 25, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Sounds like a pretty useful add-on maybe make it available for others too
Great way to grow your blog “community” IMHO.
February 25, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Are you going to make this plugin available for others?
February 25, 2007 at 3:02 pm
funny I don’t have a website worth linking to, and don’t list one, but I do comment.
February 25, 2007 at 2:42 pm
This is awesome!
February 25, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Haha
February 25, 2007 at 1:58 pm
I’m already getting traffic from it
February 25, 2007 at 1:56 pm
I like this feature a lot. I’m seeing it integrated into more and more blogs, and I think it’s great for growing the community aspect that makes blogs so popular.
February 25, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Free pr6 link! I can dig it!
February 25, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Sites don’t leak pagerank, they simply ’share the joy’
February 25, 2007 at 1:06 pm
I write my blog for people not search engines. I am always shocked peoples first instinct when making a site is OMG WHAT WILL THE SEARCH ENGINES THINK!.
To answer your question no. I am not worried.
September 22, 2008 at 10:07 am
I’ve always worried myself with Search engines… so lets see!!!
October 12, 2008 at 8:18 am
Screw Google- over a year later, a great post from Shoemoney
The Screw Google Mentality
I love this idea of writing for our visitors and not our Google Rank. I am inspired by Shoemoney’s nemesis John Chow. Google slapped him and everyone in the blogosphere pointed predicting his demise. He has more RSS subscribers than ever, more visitors, all while being on the outs with Google.
For grins, I recently looked at “Shoemoney” and “John Chow” as keywords, and discovered people searching for those terms are ridiculously low. I think “toe nail clipping” gets about as many people searching. Yes, I am actually thinking of starting a toe nail clipping site as a long-tail endeavor (no, I do not have a foot fetish).
I discovered Shoe and Chow via Top Affiliate Challenge. Other MMO blogs I follow extend from that show. Following about 5 contestants, Shoemoney, and John Chow, I discovered other good blogs when they would reference or highlighted those blogs/sites. Like Neil Patel, I learned of because of his Black American Express card and a post about just that. Now I subscribe.
I think one of the few times I Googled a blogger directly was when I found out about John Chow’s slap and wanted to see for myself. The other times I have come across bloggers on Google are when I am searching for something else. And then I only go to those sites when I already know the blogger. Like when I Googled “money making ideas” and a Shoemoney post was number 2.
December 15, 2008 at 4:07 am
Thanks for adding such a good plugin
February 25, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Jeremy don’t you worry about search engines penalizing you for ranking to so many outbound people ?
March 7, 2009 at 12:56 pm
I dont think that google will penalize a person who appears in the top commenters list and anyway we are not paying to set the links. So there isnt any problem
BTW where is Jeremy??
November 28, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Thank for this.