Hello
Readers, Blog comments are very important for blog owners to get the feedback
from our online readers. Blogger comes with a built in commenting system which
allow other to post comments on our blog using Google account or Open ID. But
these days 3rd party blog commenting or rather comments management
systems are very popular because of their features. One of the most widely used
3rd party comments system is DISQUS and nearly 75% of the websites
who use 3rd party commenting systems use DISQUS. In this article we
will check out the features of DISQUS, commonly asked questions and a tutorial
to integrate this blogging system into your blogger’s blog.
Features of DISQUS Comment System:
- DISQUS has a great user
interface and eye-catching design.
- A user can login with their
social profiles such as Facebook, Google+,T witter, Open ID to submit
their comments. If a user is not willing to do so, he can comment as a
guest as well.
- Threaded comments are another
feature that this commenting system has. It means you can carry on your
discussion with other in a single comment.
- Your visitors can give start
ratings to the discussions.
- Like youtube, it also has
thumbs up and thumbs down for comments, so commenting becomes more
interacting.
- You can edit, delete and
moderate user comments to fight spam comments.
- To fight the blog bounce rate
and to increase the readability of your blog, it also gives a link to the
related discussions.
There are
more features that you can explore by signing up into it. Now let us go through
some commonly asked questions:
Frequently Asked Questions:
Will I loose my earlier comments?
No, it
has an import feature that imports all of your previous comments from your
default blogging system. So, you need not to worry about the previous comments.
Will it affect the SEO of my Blog?
No, this
blog commenting system is search engine friendly and won’t hurt your blog’s
SEO.
Does it require editing the
template code; I am not good at coding?
No,
DISQUS has an easy mean to integrate in your blog. You need not to code for it.
Let us
check the integration part step by step. I am showing the integration of DISQUS
with blogger but it remains same for the all blogging platforms.
How to add DISQUS to Blogger:
- First of all signup for DISQUS using the by visiting disqus[dot]com.
- After completing the signup form, you will be asked to choose the blogging platform.
- Now click on Blogger and make sure you are logged into your blogger account alogng with the DISQUS account.
- Now, It will display setup instructions as displayed below:
- Click the first, and provide the necessary permissions to add an page element for DISQUS in blogger.
- After completing the first step, you will need to import all your previous comments so that you don’t loose them. Just click on the second link and import the comments.
- It usually takes up to 24 hours to complete the import, but it completed with in a few minutes for me.
- Now for browser compatibility for internet explorer, add a
Now you
have successfully integrated and started with a new blog commenting system. If
you face any problem, you can contact via comments or email me. I will be glad
to help you.
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