Monday, 18 June 2012

Best Commenting system for blogger?

Best Commenting system for blogger
I have used almost all the top commenting system for a good period of time and now I finally decided which is the best. The best commenting system for blogger is... I don't know. I am still not sure. I have been changing around my stuff in this blog from the first day to now before writing this post. In fact I have spend three times the time messing with codes and widget in this blog than actually writing the content. It's not healthy for me but this is not about me, this is about you! At least that's what the pro bloggers says. Unfortunately they also say that if I follow the pro bloggers I will never be pro blogger. That's a debate for another day, for now just listen to my dialema for finding the best comment for blogger.


What do you want, ha?



The first thing I should write about is thinking about my reader and their benefit but that's definitely not the reality for most bloggers. Luckily for my blog the answer is the same even if I solve it backward. So about the reader. They want a conversation, they want to thank you, they want to curse you (well who knows what you are blogging about), they want to present problems they are having and get a solution, they want a fast method, they want their customized picture and link with their name to stand out, they want to share their blog or other related links and simply on the comment section. That's pretty much what they want. But I am not the first smart guy in the world and many commenting system has invented to meet all of them. So again, which one should I choose?

Elimination



Process of elimination -I heard that in my algebra class two years ago. You have to eliminate the problems! Let's kick the disqus out first- why?

Disqus have a commenting system with not directly embed on your blog and takes some extra loading time. It is also hard for this to set up widget like recent comments with custom CSS. Disqus 2012 now offers real time update, improve on everything else but now they changed their commenting option for non registered with link and still didn't lunch the SEO benefit which should index comment in google, but still after some research I doubt if the small bloggers like us will get any benefit at all.

Now let's go to the next 'best' commenting system: Intense database. Let's kick this guy as well.

Intense Database has option to add extra add-ons and loads faster than disqus. One of the most famous plugin is commentluv. This allows blogger to share their recent posts. This also allow link with name and email. But again just like disqus it has a hard method to create a nice widget out of this and I believe it does slow your website down a bit. This comment system so far has no interest in improving SEO features for blogger. That means just like Disqus, Intense Database remains invisible to search engine. Some also put extra hate on this for making the design little complex and making it look 'ugly' with some template with bright colors.

What about defult? The thing blogger has already? Remember the old time? Yes, let's kick defult bogger commenting system as well.

First of all, it is defult. But many of us don't realize, this can be very much customized and simple way to make nice CSS. But this comment system has a odd way for putting in information if you are not pre-registered. The defult blogger commenting system can be improved with the new Threaded comment system and has SEO indexed feature, it still laggs on design and meet the 'needs' for most blogger. This blogging system doesn't catch any gravetor neither allow linking with other login to comment. For some blogging topic this is completely unusuable. Now I am going to talk about topic and why my comment is what it is.

Understanding your blog



You probably been disappointed to find a new commenting system. But I really don't think any of the commenting system I mentioned above or 'bad' for such reasons. They are in fact the best ones out there for blogger. And if you have checked it already, I have the defult blogger commenting system enable right now! Before you say WDH, my reasons are this: I know my blog is about internet tricks, css tricks, blogger tips and tricks and how tos for blogger. I have the topic mainly focused on blogger and it;s nices. So I can assume most of my reader probably has a blogger account and they are used to mess with codes. So the recent post sharing wouldn't be a problem at all. Also with this I can use nice CSS widget and customize the comment. As a blogger, I am also concerned about SEO features which also gave me a big push toward the default since, so far this is the only commenting system for blogger that get indexed. And this also supports export of my comments for any future comment system that will be better replacement. In this cause other than SEO I mainly focused on the reader and especially the type of reader. And I think I am at a good position. I already said I change thing around a lot maybe I will get some better substitute and make a huge post about it.

For now just be happy, understand your blog, choose a comment system YOU think is right. If you are a blogger don't forget to share your favorite comment system on the comment section below.


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