Improve your RSS with Feedburner and Comment Luv
Posted by Karen in blogging, wordpress, tags: Feedburner, linkbacks, SEO, SEO tipsSometime back I wrote a post about making the most of your RSS feed, now it’s time for a little advice on using your RSS feed with FeedBurner and Comment Luv, two very useful sites that will improve your linkbacks when you post on other blogs.
Ok let’s get started, first of all you must grab the Comment Luv plugin for Wordpress or Blogger, it’s simple to install just stop by the Comment Luv website to get you hands on it.
So why have Comment Luv on your blog?
It allows your readers to leave a link when they comment on your blog to their most recent post and if you’re commenting on other blogs that use it, then it’s only fair that you give a little linky love back 
Using FeedBurner for your RSS Feeds
Now this probably the most important thing for you to day when commenting on other blogs using the Comment Luv plugin, by default when you “burn” your RSS feed with FeedBurner your URL links will not show the URL of your recent post but instead to the FeedBurner address of the post, which is what you don’t want! I mean if you going to comment on a DoFollow blog using the Comment Luv plugin you want the linky luv to go to your blog, not the FeedBurner URL.
So you will need to tell FeedBurner to use your URLs, this is easy to do:
Log into your FeedBurner account and select Configure Stats, then uncheck item link clicks (see below), now when you comment on a blog using comment Luv your recent post link will now be the URL of your blog post and not a redirect via FeedBurner..
So there you have it, one more thing to add. If you are blogging, but also have a main site then make sure that search engines and RSS readers can find the feed to your blog on your main site, simple do this by adding a simple bit of code to the pages on your main site:
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS” href=”YOUR FEED ADDRESS HERE” />
Simple replace the YOUR FEED ADDRESS HERE with your feed for example mine for Blazing Minds would be
<link rel=”alternative” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS” href=”http://blazingminds.co.uk/feed/” />
Then whenever someone visits you main site they will now from the browsers search box that an RSS feed is available
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Improve your RSS with Feedburner and Comment Luv…
Sometime back I wrote a post about making the most of your RSS feed, now it’s time for a little advice on using your RSS feed with FeedBurner and Comment Luv, two very useful sites that will improve your linkbacks when you post on other blogs….
I really to reach my ideas to the world, and allowing readers to subscribe to your feed will do. thank you for your idea and tips how to do it.
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Twitter: jsinkeywest
(15 comments) says:
Great tip now I should go do it
thanks I sat here thinking about it for a second and
thought it was an excellent share thanks
Have a great weekend Karen
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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September 25th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Thanks John, hope you have a great weekend also
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Twitter: AdviceMaven
(3 comments) says:
Thanks for the info. I just changed my feedburner. I never understood what the configure stats page was for so I just kept the default settings. I’m glad to understand a little more about how this works.
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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September 25th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Hi Tina, glad you found my post of some use
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Hey Karen thanks for the tip. I don’t know if I have the “item clicks link” unchecked but I’m heading there right now to find out. CommentLuv stopped working on my blog and I still don’t know why :S.
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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September 26th, 2009 at 8:49 am
You will certainly gain a bit more link juice from other sites if it is unchecked
Have you tweeted @CommentLuv for help with CommentLuv not working?
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Thank you for this. I didn’t have my feed burner set right. It’s changed now thanks to your help
I have the commentluv too!
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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September 26th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Hi Stacie, you may notice now that you will get a few more backlinks when you comment on blogs using CommentLuv that are DoFollow
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Twitter: virtuosoblogger
(19 comments) says:
I have seen a similar item links thing in do follow blogs and i agree they replace feedproxy to the original link and you get the full link juice and so a link back to your post
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Twitter: dragonblogger
(39 comments) says:
Good information, though I think Feedburner is providing false subscriber counts since it includes FriendFeed subscribers in the chicklet which are not necessarily true blog subscribers, which makes it highly inaccurate to know your RSS Subscibers just from the chicklet.
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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September 26th, 2009 at 8:52 am
I didn’t know about FeedBurner including FriendFeed subscribers, shame that, so I wonder what our true subscriber counts really are?
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Very useful information , I checked mine and it seems ok , FriendFeed subscribers counting as Feedburner subscribers is a big problem and makes it hard to find accurate figures , sure the blog owner can find out because he or she can analyze the data but I don’t think there any other way.
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Twitter: commentluv
(3 comments) says:
thanks for the write up! I hope that some of my support ticket submitters will find this before asking me the same thing again!
btw.. at the bottom of the post, the link to your feed should have /feed/ on the end if you want it to result in an xml feed instead of pointing to your home page
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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September 28th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Whoops, my bad! I don’t know why I missed that off! Thanks for pointing it out to me and thanks for the Twitter Comment Link seems to be working well
Could do with a NoFollow option on the plugin though 
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Andy Bailey
Twitter: commentluv
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September 28th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
ah yes, a nofollow option and maybe a open in new window option might be good. I’ll add that now
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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September 28th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
I’ve implemented the updated version, much better, specially the nofollow and new window options
Twitter: extremejohn
(165 comments) says:
You have been on a Sunday Smash run for a few weeks now and this is another fine piece.
Got your email and will do my best to get it done as soon as possible, thank you again Karen.
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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September 28th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Thank you for having me on the Sunday Smash, I do try
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Twitter: themepremium
(1 comments) says:
Hey karen pretty useful tip. Infact I missed it and making changes in my Feedburner now..
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Quite excellent advice: I love commentluv, it’s fun for me and the people who use it on my blog are getting rewarded, and that’s a great feeling. I do have to check that there isn’t any Feedburner redirect occurring with the URL’s I’ve created; again, thanks for the heads-up.
I put this post on Stumbleupon: hopefully that’ll get it more attention.
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Wow, thanks for the tip on Feedburner. Searched for info on CommentLuv and got a double bonus of information from this post – so thanks.
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Karen
Twitter: Blazing_Minds
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October 5th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Hi Nikki, glad I could be of some help with my little blog post
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Twitter: thatgirlisfunny
(2 comments) says:
Thank you for this post. I just read somewhere – not sure where – that the word “feed” needs to be at the end of the URL linking back to our post. Is that correct? If so, how do we append the URL? This is the link that appears when I hover over my recent post link.
Thanks,
Cheryl
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Cheryl from thatgirlisfunny
Twitter: thatgirlisfunny
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October 18th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Hi Karen,
I think I got that feed issue mixed up with something else. All’s well and everything’s working with commentluv. Nice to be connected with you on BlogCatalog!
Cheryl
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Twitter: praveentrivedi
(2 comments) says:
thanks!!
for blogger no code on comment luv site!!!
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Twitter: praveentrivedi
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