JointComments is a Disqus replacement, a free comment plugin for WordPress. Adding a comment widget to your website has a lot benefits, and we will discuss about them in this post.
Comments are a form of social proof: When Copyblogger originally turned off their comments, it was because they believed that discussion was happening elsewhere. They thought more people were reaching out to them on social media than in their comments section. But since then, comment systems have evolved a lot. For example, Disqus will integrate with social media channels to help tie them back your blog’s comments. So now the conversation can be happening in multiple places, both on your blog and outside of your site. This creates a great opportunity to build a community around your blog and within your chosen comment system. And that provides a sense of credibility to your blog that you might not find elsewhere.
The theory is that the more blog comments you have, the more content you’ll have on each page, and the more keywords you should rank for, which should increase your overall search traffic. However, Neil was not convinced that this is actually the case, so he did some research. First Neil found that he averages about 176 comments per post, with 22.6 words per comment, which means that allowing blog comments nets him an average of 3,978 extra words on each page. Next, he checked Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools to see whether the blog comments were resulting in more search engine rankings. He found that approx. 26.7% of the keywords that were ranking in Google were from the comments section.
It makes commenting great for the lazy. I have to admit something. Today everyone is lazy. We want to do things in less clicks. We want to type without picking up our fingers (Swype). So today’s websites/blogs can not afford to have a long tedious process for commenting. Its our job to make it as simple as possible for anyone to put their thoughts down. Almost everyone is logged into JointComments as soon as they power on their computers. So with JointComments comments, they dont have to do anything more. Works just great!
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. Find additional info at https://jointcomments.com/.