Amazing lol…
Seems like just yesterday I made my first post….
Its hard to imagine 60k comments. Especially when about 80% of them are manually approved with all the spam filters we have.
60,000 Comments
Post written by Jeremy Schoemaker
Hi I am Jeremy Schoemaker and ShoeMoney.com is my blog. 99% of the post here are done by me but you will see others occasionally make guest posts. This blog is fun to write but for my day job I run several online companies.
More about Jeremy at http://www.shoemoney.com!
July 27, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Congrats on the milestone of 60,000 comments. That is a heck of an achievement. Looks like you got 3 plugins to update too
July 27, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Hey congrats for reaching the 60,000 mark!
July 27, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Wow that’s a lot of comments to approve by hand. Congrats and keep up the good work!
July 27, 2008 at 6:41 pm
thats a lot of frickin comments. nice to have an opinion that matters to so many people
July 27, 2008 at 6:44 pm
wow , Congratulation !!
VIVA WORDPRESS
July 27, 2008 at 6:45 pm
It seems like your popularity has gone to an all new high. Very nice. I smell a pork product on the burner.
July 27, 2008 at 7:11 pm
That’s an awful lot of comments, congrats!
July 27, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Congrats.
Oh, and I checked out your first post, btw. Seems like dupe content to me, dude, cause I’m SURE I’ve seen that post some other place before.
Well done, though.
July 27, 2008 at 7:26 pm
That’s a lot of comments!
What plugin are you using that gives you a running count on how many comments your site has?
July 27, 2008 at 7:29 pm
that is just wordpress…
July 27, 2008 at 7:41 pm
A lot of manually approved comments then. 60K is a great achievement though. Only a few more months till 100K
July 27, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Really? I dont have it on mine either. Just have a post count and category count
July 27, 2008 at 7:56 pm
very impressive indeed! How much does that work out per month ?
July 27, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Congrats! Doesn’t it get time consuming to moderate the comments manually?
July 27, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Here’s number 60,013
Only 39,987 left!
July 27, 2008 at 8:28 pm
congratulations Jeremy!
Well done.
July 27, 2008 at 8:30 pm
very impressive…im at about 200 lol but then again my blog is only 2 months old
July 27, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Wow! That’s a lot of comments to review and approve. How much time do you spend each day approving comments?
July 27, 2008 at 8:54 pm
My first comment showed up pretty fast in a few minutes, and subsequent one immediately. That’s some fast manual approving.
July 27, 2008 at 9:03 pm
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/comments_number
July 27, 2008 at 9:06 pm
By the way did you change your HOME PAGE TITLE Today 3 times , just to take a good screenshot ? :p
July 27, 2008 at 9:09 pm
600,000 more shoe. I’m trying to learn how to get my users to do this. Comments are very important when it comes to organic searches I am finding. Again, congrats and many more.
July 27, 2008 at 9:42 pm
You’re only 50,000 comments behind me.
July 27, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Nice Gravatar John Chow !!
July 27, 2008 at 9:54 pm
You get it by default in the wordpres 2.6 interface!
July 27, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Ha ha and you are just 90000 ahead of me
July 27, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Congratulations for the milestone.
July 27, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Thats definitely a lot of comments to approve by hand. I thought my 20-40 comments every couple hours was a big deal!
July 27, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Congratulations- this is so exciting!
July 27, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Do you have to set up your site on a load balanced system? There aren’t many mega Wordpress sites out there, and they all seem to have custom solutions for handling the volume.
July 27, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Congrats! FYI, I think the site is unfriendly to iPhones… to mine, anyway.
July 27, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Hahaha, Yeah thats not that many. It might be some de-activated plugins. I think I have 7 to update myself.
September 9, 2008 at 10:29 pm
i hate updating plugins it always takes more time than i’m willing to spend on it
July 27, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Hahaha, it is familiar isn’t it
July 27, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Depends on what version of wordpress your using Lyndon. If you need any help just follow my link to my contact form and I’ll assist you.
July 27, 2008 at 11:47 pm
It usually does specially with that many comments marked as not spam. I wonder what his AKISMET spam count is. I’m at 500,000 for that but then again im really popular in terms of Spam!
July 27, 2008 at 11:48 pm
I would say around 1600-1700 per month or 54-57 a day. Really great results!
July 28, 2008 at 12:04 am
man 80% are approved manually? wow thats a lot!
July 28, 2008 at 12:05 am
haha, thats not that far.
July 28, 2008 at 12:06 am
yes its a very great achievement.,.
July 28, 2008 at 12:06 am
Wow! 60,000,that’s a lot of comments. Congratulation..
July 28, 2008 at 12:10 am
…and 90% are people that are just trying to get Macbooks ….. (pointing to himself)
July 28, 2008 at 12:12 am
60,000 comments is indeed quite an achievement. Congratulations, Jeremy, and may the second 60,000 come in half the time! It took you just shy of three years to achieve this. Impressive indeed!
July 28, 2008 at 12:18 am
Shoemoney is indeed a wonderful testimonial to the effectiveness of Wordpress in the blogosphere. VIVA WORDPRESS indeed!
July 28, 2008 at 12:30 am
Wow!!! 60,000 sounds like a LOT of comments.
July 28, 2008 at 12:40 am
Went to check pout the first post too, and this is what I got when clicking the link…..
“Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!” I am sure that wasn’t the first post, please help me out here!
July 28, 2008 at 12:45 am
Averaged out. Recently the numbers are higher. A graph showing the growth curve would be nice. Now that Jeremy is running contests I’ve definitely noticed an increase in comments posted, and lots of new “faces” on this blog too.
July 28, 2008 at 12:48 am
Not for long! Watch this space!
July 28, 2008 at 1:21 am
Great milestone, congrats
July 28, 2008 at 2:53 am
Wow, that’s a lot of comments. I notice that is just the approved comments, if you add in the spam/removed comments how many would that be? Manually approving comments is hard work, but it’s the only way to ensure quality – automated filters will never be as smart as a human being.
July 28, 2008 at 3:05 am
Popularity is good. Сongrats!
July 28, 2008 at 4:04 am
Congrats Shoemoney! That’s really a great achievement!
July 28, 2008 at 6:15 am
Congrats on 60K comments, that’s great!
July 28, 2008 at 7:00 am
That is a sick milestone. Congrats!
By the way, care to share the size of your database?
July 28, 2008 at 8:18 am
congratulations!!! that was a tough work,
keep it up pal.
July 28, 2008 at 8:26 am
Thats amazing…
Yours is not a blog, but a forum
Thanks to us
July 28, 2008 at 9:25 am
Congrats on 60k comments man, that’s ridiculous
July 28, 2008 at 9:25 am
well thats really a lots of comments.i love to see my blog with that kind of amount of comment:)Congrats though
July 28, 2008 at 9:28 am
So… the real question is..
How many does John Chow have?
July 28, 2008 at 10:15 am
We’ll have to wait for him to post it, if he does. I don’t know, I have more respect for shoemoney, but john looks like he gets more traffic.
July 28, 2008 at 10:24 am
Congratulations! 60k is a nice amount.
July 28, 2008 at 10:31 am
Where can I see this post??
July 28, 2008 at 10:39 am
My site still hasn’t even broken the 1,000 comment mark, but congrats on the achievement! And Geiger, if you want to know how many comments John Chow has, just look at the number at the end of a comment you posted in the URL
July 28, 2008 at 10:40 am
WOW!
Great job, most of us will never see that amount.
July 28, 2008 at 10:41 am
well done shoe…you have writen alot of useful info ! Keep posting !
July 28, 2008 at 10:55 am
Lol, you alone make up the 90% ?
July 28, 2008 at 10:55 am
I would like to see the $ per comment metric
July 28, 2008 at 10:56 am
Did you both check a few comments above?
John said he has more than 100,000 comments..
July 28, 2008 at 11:07 am
LOL, can’t believe you left that comment on the blog!
July 28, 2008 at 11:46 am
And the time frame to reach there…
July 28, 2008 at 11:48 am
It probably will come in half the time. That is a great achievement. There are a lot of comments per post as well.
July 28, 2008 at 11:50 am
It is crazy how scalable wordpress is after seeing stats like that.
July 28, 2008 at 12:25 pm
that would be nice to see… though I am sure hard to measure with affiliate links and other things, but an estimate would be nice…
July 28, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Good work. I wonder how long to 100k.
July 28, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Congratulations! Here’s to 60K more!
July 28, 2008 at 12:55 pm
even on his first post he got 5 comments , and i’m sure if the comments were not closed he would have much more !
July 28, 2008 at 12:57 pm
i think only first time commenter’s are manual and the post that contain URLS
July 28, 2008 at 12:58 pm
mine has broke the 40k Comments the only difference is that they are all SPAM COMMENTS !
July 28, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Huge feet! Looks like you have finally made it
July 28, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Average of 150 comments / post
2 posts / day
100 – 60 = 40 k
40 000 / 300 = in aproximately 133, 33 and for the % of error let say he will have his 100K during the next 6 months
July 28, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Wow congratulations! That’s quite an accomplishment. Better celebrate with a beer at Lazlo’s tonight.
July 28, 2008 at 2:45 pm
congrats man it took me awhile to get my comments approve
July 28, 2008 at 4:15 pm
wow!.. that’s a lot of comment to moderate..
hope my blog receive that lots of comments someday!..
July 28, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Congratulations Jeremy.
You are a true inspirational blogger.
I wish I will reach a position like you one day.
July 28, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I’m good, but thanks for the offer
Didn’t realize it was added to 2.6, since I have upgraded yet. But I will be doing it soon.
July 28, 2008 at 8:14 pm
It’s really amazing how many of them have the same tone of voice and spelling errors too. We must all think alike! Your really amazing tho and a very funny guy.
July 28, 2008 at 8:28 pm
wow that is an impressive number of comments. 60,000 comments, that seem so far-fetched to me.
July 28, 2008 at 8:48 pm
That’s a lot of comments. John Chow has twice that but nonetheless that’s a ton!
July 28, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Any one read John’s latest post? He’s past the bleeding 100k mark!
July 29, 2008 at 12:23 am
dont u think bulk of those are spam . . .like this right now
July 29, 2008 at 2:45 am
The next milestone is 120 K. How much time will need to do so? -)))
July 29, 2008 at 4:49 am
Whether the comment on a blog post is a single line or has got more lines of comments, people has responded to it that is the thing to be considered.
simple way of life
July 29, 2008 at 6:21 am
Do comments help with SEO at all?
July 29, 2008 at 9:28 am
Over 110,000 for John. I wish you guys would leave your posts open for comments longer. You would definitely have a lot more.
July 29, 2008 at 9:37 am
I would think so. The more content you have, the better.
July 29, 2008 at 9:37 am
Just checked. 428 for JayGeiger.com WOO HOO
July 29, 2008 at 9:51 am
why you have not removed the first post ?
July 29, 2008 at 9:52 am
congrats on the 60k …. I think I’d be ecstatic with just 60 so I can’t even imagine moderating 60,000 + comments.
July 29, 2008 at 11:01 am
Congratulation to you that is big achievement for 3 years from the day you start blogging
July 29, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Awesome work Jeremy. I cannot tell you how impressed I am at that! Damn, you get 100 commments for writing a post about how many comments you get. Brilliant!!!!
July 29, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Dang shoe, that is alot of comments.
I agree with the guy who just posted. you write you just hit 60k comments, and you get another 100. But then, just about anything you write is worth that many comments.
Have you figured out how much each comment is worth to the value of the income of the blog?
July 30, 2008 at 2:21 am
Thats a lot of comments for you man!
July 30, 2008 at 7:21 am
Congratulations on the 60K comments. I only have 500 on my blog. ^^
July 30, 2008 at 9:14 am
Congrats for 60,000 comments. Thats a lot….wow!
July 30, 2008 at 9:15 am
I got some 120 or 130 :p
hehe, to be honest, I didnt even think I’d get to 100 lol
July 30, 2008 at 9:16 am
John Chow’s posts definitely is seen with more comments. 100,000 is another Insanic value..Shocking
July 30, 2008 at 9:17 am
Macbook? You get macbook by commenting?
July 30, 2008 at 9:18 am
haha nope. Forum Posts and comments can definitely not be compared. Posts are way too fast than comments. Even a comparison is like woah, too much hehe.
July 30, 2008 at 9:19 am
Blogs gets LOADS of spam thats why. Everyday 100s of spammy porn comments with full of links. I hate it. My blog is not even popular and I get 100s daily…
July 30, 2008 at 12:57 pm
That is a lot of comments
July 30, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Yes it’s pretty cool that a lot of people are commenting here + the new contest has encouraged evryone to comment.
July 30, 2008 at 4:57 pm
lol is the contest effect, people are working hard to get the shoemoney tshirt
July 30, 2008 at 4:59 pm
146 comment for 145 post, 7 months blogging experience and 0 spam tolerance.
July 30, 2008 at 4:59 pm
quality comments worths, bullshit no!
July 31, 2008 at 12:06 am
wow! congrats! ill be visiting this site from now on!
July 31, 2008 at 4:22 am
Love this blog – I visit everyday.
Regards.
August 1, 2008 at 6:58 am
Congrats! Great Blog
Will Be here more often
August 6, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Congrats… if only I could attract a large user base…
August 6, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Congrats! From I registered, I come here everyday.
August 9, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Congrats on getting to that great milestone. Soon it will be 100,000
August 27, 2008 at 11:47 am
A very good achievement, i noticed your feedburner is at 20k but idk if that is peak.
September 9, 2008 at 10:30 pm
great accomplishment – I have a blog that probably have 10,000 unapproved spam posts
September 10, 2008 at 1:36 am
Man that’s a lot of comments. Congrats.
December 19, 2008 at 9:50 pm
60,000 is a lot of comments. WOW! Congrats on that milestone