Want More Blog Comments? Use Disqus
UPDATE: August 13 2014! I have pulled the pin on using Disqus commenting system and gone back to using Comment luv! Why? Two main reason. 1) people can’t be fruited to log in to Disqus to be able to post a comment. 2) Spam comments were hitting me almsot daily. 3) I suspect that Disqus was slowing down my site load speed inside the WP admin and on the outside. I don’t recommend Disqus. Stick with regular WP comments and Comment Luv. If you want to get really fancy, use Facebook comments as well.
If you scroll down, you might notice that I’m now using the Disqus commenting system on this blog. Cool huh?
For about 12 months, I was using the standard WordPress commenting system here and it was working ok.
I had Comment Luv installed and Spam was under control from the use of Akismet, and had Gravatars enabled so it was a little tweaked.
But because I’m always on the lookout for ways to make my sites better, i.e. easier to use, more interesting etc., I had no choice but to switch to Disqus!
Why is Disqus so much better?
Disqus offers so much more than the standard WP comment system.
The fact that readers can post a comment without having to fill out the 3 fields of boredom (name, email, website) is the biggest point why I made the switch.
Commentors can leave a comment by simply clicking one button to be signed in with Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, OpenID or Disqus itself and typing their thoughts away!
It just makes it easier for readers to comment, and the easier it is, the more likely more people will comment. It also almost entirely eliminates spam!
How easy was it to integrate Disqus into my blog?
A piece of cake.
All I needed was the Disqus Commenting System plugin and a free account with Disqus. A few minutes later I was up and running with my old comments still in place.
The downside?
The only thing I’m worried about (a little) is that the comments will no longer benefit my blog by way of SEO.
All comments are actually stored on the Disqus website and just ‘appear’ on my blog through some internet magic so I have a feeling Google will never know when I have new comments 🙁
But that doesn’t bother me really as I don’t rely on Google for my traffic. 95% of all my traffic comes from OTHER places besides Google, luckily 🙂
So try it out! Leave a comment about your thoughts on Disqus or just to say ‘hi’.
Stu “Sensei” Stirling
p.s. Just some random info: It’s about -3C outside and the wind is so strong it feels like my roof is going to fly off! That’s what you get when you live n the side of a tall mountain in Japan in the winter.
33 thoughts on “Want More Blog Comments? Use Disqus”
You mention that you dont receive spam comments since using disqus . Ok that may be the case that oyu dont get robots commenting. But I can see a few spammy comments below that have no quality to them
Thanks for that. I will give it a try. However, I am not sure I like the idea of my blog’s comments being ignored by google.
Been using disqus for quite long. It looks good and easy to navigate also. I think using disqus for some wouldn’t be a problem.
I love disqus, great stuff!
Disqus is the best no need for any other options
disqus…. i love you
Yes, I found out by checking that same way. Bring on the Google traffic! 🙂
Blog commenting through Disqus is very easy and manageable now a days
My question revolves around the interaction of DISQUS, Blogger, and the
“pagination” effect. The pagination option is very appealing to me,
because I can limit the number of comments that load at a time, which
will hopefully help my posts/pages load faster. However, I’m concerned
that if I use pagination, blogger will attempt to create new static
pages for each additional comment page.Is my concern warranted? What should I do?
Better info on your blog than what I have seen so far elsewhere. Thanks for sharing and… Keep up the good work. I know from experience it’s not always easy! :-).
Wow!It was just because I’m running IntenseDebate on my blog, and I wanted to hear if Disqus is better.
Yes Blog comment via these disqus is very easy and get more traffic to the website. It also help you to have a good blog with attractive one.
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I agree it is so useful and efficient to use, a big help to promote a site and a great toll for blog commenter.
Yes, use of disqus can attract number of SEO guys to post comment but it will also increase the SPAM level as well.
yeah it will increase spam levels if they are auto approved..
This is a nice article about Disqus, I wanna try it for our own site.. Thank you!
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The required use of Disqus has raised privacy concerns about the ability to post comments anonymously. When a user visits one of the websites using Disqus and posts a comment, the comment is submitted to Disqus. If the user has a Disqus account, then it tracks all their comments across the websites that use Disqus.
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I agree it is so useful and efficient to use, a big help to promote a site and a great toll for blog commenter.
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I think you mean ‘tool’.. not toll.. lol
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The most effective thing in Disqus format is social interaction and handling all the comments from the admin panel.
Yup, really easy to use.
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