There is no need to explain about the Power of Comments. Every comment helps not only the commentator, but also the blog owner. Commenting and getting comments back is a powerful tool in SEO.Being a blog owner, its our duty to find who is “commenting” more and then giving much respect for them. Here we are giving you code for creating a “TOP COMMENTATOR WIDGET” from last 10000 comments. After our posts on  "Automatic link exchange using Comments" and "Add recent comments widgets in Blog", here is the one most demanded by fellow readers.

Comments with a link back to a website or blog will definitely noticed by Search Engines and will help to boost  your Page Rank . So Always remember the “Power of Comments” and  try to give respect to commentators on your blog.

Benefits of  adding a “TOP COMMENTATOR” widget

This widget will help the blogger to find who is commenting more on the blog and it is easy for bloggers to give some reward back to the top commentator

This widget will display 10 top commentators from your previous 10000 comments posts with date, full structure of comment and title of the post.

This widget will give a data that help readers to know which blogger is really serious in giving comments.If you usually receive good comments, then installing this Widget is an excellent way of announcing that who is your favorite commentator.

HOW TO INSTALL “TOP COMMENTATOR WIDGET”

STEP A:

Log in to your “DASHBOARD’. Then click on “LAYOUT” and then go to “PAGE ELEMENTS”. Click on “ ADD A GADGET”. Select “HTML/JAVASCRIPT”. Now go to Step B to copy and paste the below given code in that box.

Step B :

Copy and paste the code given below in red colors from <a to </a>(copy all below given code from the CODE BOX ). Please take care not to make any changes as this is based on Yahoo Pipes. We are able to block the script if you make any unnecessary changes.

<a href="http://businessvartha.blogspot.com"/>TOP COMMENTATORS</a><script type="text/javascript"> function pipeCallback(obj) { document.write('<ol>'); var i; for (i = 0; i < obj.count ; i++) { var href = "'" + obj.value.items[i].link + "'"; if(obj.value.items[i].link == "") var item ="<li>" + obj.value.items[i].title + "</li>"; else var item = "<li>" + "<a href=" + href + ">" + obj.value.items[i].title + "</a> </li>"; document.write(item); } document.write('</ol>'); } </script> <script src=http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_render=json&_callback=pipeCallback&_id=5b5c04d031846259527a35e2ae529fef
&url=http://YOURBLOGURL.blogspot.com&num=10&filter=XXXXX” type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="http://businessvartha.blogspot.com/2010/01/add-top-commentators-widget-in-blog.html"/><span style="font-size: 70%">Grab this Widget</span></a>

 

<a href="http://businessvartha.blogspot.com">TOP COMMENTATORS</a><span id="preservecd38cecb8603458c902847ab0094f461" class="wlWriterPreserve"><script type="text/javascript"> function pipeCallback(obj) { document.write('<ol>'); var i; for (i = 0; i < obj.count ; i++) { var href = "'" + obj.value.items[i].link + "'"; if(obj.value.items[i].link == "") var item ="<li>" + obj.value.items[i].title + "</li>"; else var item = "<li>" + "<a href=" + href + ">" + obj.value.items[i].title + "</a> </li>"; document.write(item); } document.write('</ol>'); } </script></span> <span id="preservec6693de7e69e44009d8dbadb80b0fb6d" class="wlWriterPreserve"><script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_render=json&_callback=pipeCallback&_id=5b5c04d031846259527a35e2ae529fef &url=http://YOURBLOGURL.blogspot.com&num=10&filter=XXXXX" type="text/javascript"></script></span> <a href="http://businessvartha.blogspot.com/2010/01/add-top-commentators-widget-in-blog.html"><span style="font-size: 70%">Grab this Widget</span></a>

Then you had to Edit a little. As you can see some blue letters in the above given Code  “YOURBLOGURL.blogspot.com”. Change that with the URL of your blog or URL of your website. Now you can see another part in this code with blue letters “ XXXXX”. Here you may give your name, ie the name which you use to comment back in  your own comment box. This will filter TOP COMMENTATORS from your own comments.

Now “SAVE”. The “TOP COMMENTATOR WIDGET” will appear on your blog, showing who is the top commentator in your blog.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     In our previous post, we gave a mention about using Entrecard. After that, we received more than 100 emails and enquiries about Entrecard and how to use it more effectively. Here in this post we will describe, how to generate free instant traffic to your blog using Entrecard.

WHAT IS ENTRECARD?

Entrecard is a program that allows a blog owner to advertise his blog and keep some advertisements in his blog. This program promotes, “blog walking” through their widget and help you network with other users, increase traffic to your site, earn EC (Entrecard Credits), and free advertise on other sites.

HOW TO JOIN ENTRECARD?

This is absolutely free program to Join. Click here to join  ENTRECARD. You should give “Valid Email Address”, “Category”, “Entrecard Style” ( you can upload a picture 125x125 or just select any default styles), “Blog URL”, and other details as required. Then Grab the code for “Entrecard Widget “ for your blog. After copying the code, Login to your “Blogger Account”,”Dashboard”, “Layout”, “Add A Gadget” and paste the Code and Save. Now the Entrecard Widget will appear on your blog. Your blog has now been submitted to Entrecard moderation team for approval. You will receive an email once your blog has been reviewed and approved.

It has been observed that, rarely your Entrecard Widgets are not scanned properly by Entrecard Automatic scanners. This will delay the approval of your blog and advertisements will not appear in your blog. Simply login to Entrecard, “ Dashboard”. Then you can request again for a scanning of the presence of Entrecard widget on your blog. When the scanner detects widget in your blog, then advertisements will start appearing on your blog.

HOW TO GENERATE TRAFFIC USING ENTRECARD.

METHOD ONE :

Learn Blog Walk: Once the Entrecard widget on your blog start showing advertisements, login to your Entrecard account, and in the Dashboard, where you can see “Drops inbox”.  Click on that, to see different blogs (date wise arranged) who visited your blog and “dropped “ you. Now a click on any of those will take you to that blog. Find the Entrecard Gadget in that blog. You can see a small tab called “Drop” where you had to click. Now it will return as “Thanks”. This means you will be in the “Drops inbox” of that blogger and whenever that blogger looks into the ‘Drop inbox”, will see your blog. This process is called Blog walk and automatically prompting bloggers to visit back their visitors. This process also will help you to earn more EC ( Entrecard Credits)

METHOD TWO :

Buy Advertisements for Free: Once you earn Entrecard Credits, then you can utilize those credits to display an advertisement of your blog in another blog. Login to Entrecard, go to “Dashboard” and then to “Campaign”. Here you can find blogs based upon category, popular, cheap or random. By searching here, to find a blog where you can advertise is quite easy. Here you can see our blog appearing in this Campaign. From this you can understand that if you want to advertisement in my blog, then you had to wait for 5 days and when you advertise on my blog, 32 EC will be deducted from your EC account. This EC will be credited in my account. Once you select a blog of your choice, simple click on “Advertise” tab as seen in this picture. Advertisement of your blog will come on that blog automatically on due date. Those bloggers who visit the blog that shows your advertisement will see your advertisement resulting in more visitors to your blog. So while preparing advertisements, use good pictures in your Widget to represent your blog.

HOW TO EARN MORE ENTRECARD CREDITS (EC)

1. Earn Credits for dropping cards : Blog walking will help you to earn EC. Find blogs of your choice from the campaign and simply walk through blogs.
2. Advertising price : Let others apply for display advertisements in your blog. When there is more queue of applicants, then  your EC rate also will go high.
3. Referral Program : Try to keep a widget in your blog to attract referrals. The referral banner codes are available in Dashboard . You can earn 300 Entrecard credits for each new users you referred to Entrecard that resulted in a sign up
4. Selling items in the Marketplace : This depend upon various offers, up to you to participate or not.
5. Contests : You may earn credits buy participating in contests
6. Buying Credits : You can buy credits directly from Entrecard by payments

CAUTION WHILE APPLYING FOR ENTRECARD

Care should be taken that your blog meets the “ Quality Standards” of Entrecard. Simple Rules of joining:

1. No nudity in participating blogs
2. English only blogs
3. Minimum 5 posts must be present in the blog
4. Content must be original
5. No full-screen ads or popup 
6. No illegal file downloads from your blog
7. Entrecard widget must be present in your blog
8. Redirects URL such as tinyurl, linkbee etc are not allowed
9. No duplicate accounts allowed
10. URLs must be valid and should land in valid page
11. No auto playing audio allowed in participating blogs
12. Content must be recent in last 3 months

Hopes that all my readers got a basic idea about Entrecard. Don’t forget to collect the official E-book after joining Entrecard. Any doubts, feel free to comment.