Free comment solution for WordPress

JointComments is a Disqus alternative, a free comment plugin for WordPress. Adding a comment plugin to your website has many benefits, and we will talk about them in this article.

Blogging is often a one-way street. You talk a lot about a topic, but without the comments, it’s like shouting into an empty room. If you want to give your site a little life, add comments. Turn a static article into a real conversation. It’s not all glitter and gold, though. There are a few occasions when comments can backfire. Here are some of the top ones. When having comments doesn’t really help: Do comments work 100% of the time for every blog? Not necessarily. Several high profile bloggers don’t have comment sections and still survive. Seth Godin doesn’t allow comments on his blog. Never has and never will. Zen Habits is another popular blog without a comment section. So there’s no clear consensus that blog comments are always helpful. In some cases, it may be more of an effort than it’s worth.

However, to figure out how much additional traffic he was receiving from those rankings, Neil took a look at the actual number of impressions and clicks that those rankings received. Overall, he found that the comments section brought in 16% of all search traffic. Neil concludes, “Comments didn’t drive as many visitors as I wanted, but considering that it’s user-generated content, it’s not that bad. It could be that Google may not be placing as much value on text created through comments or words appearing lower on a page (since comments are located below each blog post) as it does on the post itself.” I should note that Neil only analyzed 560 blog posts–so far less data than the 100,000+ blog posts from the HubSpot study–but it is interesting information nonetheless.

JointComments comments & what you will learn by the end of this post: JointComments offers a commenting service outside of its own website. Let me clarify what this post is going to be about. I will not be teaching you how to integrate JointComments comments. (To do that ShoutMeLoud already has a fantastic guide for BlogSpot and for WordPress you can use this easy plug and play plugin. What I will be talking about is why you should be using JointComments commenting system on your blog. And how you can design the comments and curate them to get maximum out of it. There are a few main reasons why JointComments comments are better than other systems like Disqus. Firstly you should know what are the main strong points and then you should optimize your site for it.

Embeddable Comment Widget: Get more engagement with our easy to use commenting system. The setup takes just a few clicks. Features: See top commenters & top comments, Ban users permanently or temporarily, Notifications for commenters. Upcoming Features: Thread level comment moderation, Social Media & Gmail Login for commenters, Pin Comments, Auto Approval for Specific Commenters, Akismet integration for SPAM protection, Custom CSS, Monetization with Native Ads, JOINT (erc-20) token rewards. See additional info on Comment software for WordPress.