Once in a while someone asks how to find blogs with the keywordluv plugin enabled on them. There is a really simple method that you can use. Here it is.
Do an exact keyword search in Google using quotes around it.
Copy and paste the following phrase into Google and then search it. Don’t change anything. Just copy and paste it.
“Enter YourName@”
This is called doing a footprint search. Most sites that use keywordluv share a common footprint. A footprint is anything that certain websites share in common that allows you to easily identify them.
If you look at a blog that has Keywordluv enabled you will see this sentence at the bottom of the page.
This site uses KeywordLuv. Enter YourName@YourKeywords in the Name field to take advantage.
That is a footprint.
So, you can use Google to show you a whole bunch of these blogs that use the Keywordluv plugin just by doing a search for a part of that phrase. It works better if you put quotes around it because then Google performs an exact keyword search instead of a broad keyword search.
As you are building links for your niche site empire, you will discover that there are certain types of sites that are easier to get links from. These sites often have footprints that can be used to identify them. If you use this method, you can find these sites quickly which makes your life a whole lot easier.
Even Better – Find Higher PR pages that use Keywordluv
You can take this method up a notch by doing the following.
1) Install the SEOQuake plugin for Firefox if you don’t already have it.
2) Go to the Google homepage and click on search settings in the upper right hand corner. Change the number of results displayed to 100.
3) Go do that search again.
4) Click on the descending arrow next to the little PR sign in your SEOQuake toolbar. That will sort the results according to the highest PageRank pages first. The highest PR pages will be at the top of your list.
I wouldn’t get overly hung up on just chasing the high PR pages. I would recommend that you locate them this way, but then visit the site’s newer pages and get links from there. Sometimes website owners get mad when you try to get a link from an old post. I find it much easier to get links from newer ones. Chances are that if some other deep pages on their website were able to acquire that much PR, then so will these newer pages.
If you find a website that has high pages with higher inner page PR, then that website’s homepage is probably going to have an even higher PR. Pretty much any page on that kind of site is going to be valuable, especially ones that are relevant to your niche.
Another Keywordluv tip
Keep a list of every place that accepts one of your comments. Keep track of the site’s PageRank and any other factors that are important to you. I recommend using an Excel spreadsheet to track them all.
It will take you a couple weeks to build a list of several hundred. But, once you are done, that list is going to save you a tremendous amount of time in the future.
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Thanks Kathy for this post. Very useful for this newbie :-) I sometimes go to older posts once I get to a site cos they are relevant to my learning curve and I may only just have discovered the site. So far, the blogging community have always been kind and replied to my queries,even if it’s on an older post. Also, I love research, so if a blog is content-rich I stay on that site and learn as much as I can.
I know I will be coming back to this site a lot as you have heaps of information relevant to my blog as far as learning and understanding how to do techie stuff and also just helpful tips that will get my blog visited more too.
Patricia Perth Australia
I’m glad you found this information useful. Most of the bloggers in this circle are okay with leaving comments on old posts. In your search using the method suggested here you will sometimes be taken to posts that are several years old. Some will be newer and some will be older. When a visitor tries to comment on something that was obviously said three years ago, some bloggers will suspect a comment dropper or spammer. Both of these are not welcome on many blogs.
So far ppl have seen my comments as genuine (which they are) and even visited my site and commented on my blog posts which is always exciting when starting out. I am getting to meets heaps of really nice people as I visit their blog and learn. Looking forward to more of your posts
Patricia Perth Australia
Great advice. Commenting with keywordluv and specially in relevant niches can boost relationships as well as having the benefit of obtaining a backlink for your targeted keywords. SEO Quake is a great tool and I have been using it for a while. Good for a lot of things and combined with the “footprint”, it could be just an excellent form on link building technique. Tks
I agree that relevancy is important. You can compensate for lack of relevancy by getting more powerful links that aren’t relevant, but relevant links and trusted links definitely count more. Good tip.
Hi Kathy, I’ve been at this for years but I don’t pay attention like I should. I’ve used footprint searches (didn’t know what it was called) for a long time but not only did I not realize SEOQuake allowed us to sort the search results, I didn’t know we could change the number of results in Google to a hundred. I also noticed we can set it to open the search results in a new browser window. It’s hard to believe I never noticed that ‘search settings’ link on Google. I appreciate the post, you just made ALL of my searching easier. :)
Brain,
Welcome to my blog. I remember when I first learned about the Google search settings too. It was a eureka moment. A lot of these tools like SEO Quake have features that you would easily overlook, especially if you were a new user. Over time you discover the little tricks that you didn’t even realize were there the whole time.
As a side note, I Google so much that by the end of the day they lock me out with a message saying they suspect automated inquires. Now I discovered the same settings on Yahoo.
Sweet! I love blogs with comment luv and keyword luv. It’s advantageous for both the blogger because more people will participate on their blog and it gives the reader incentives to actually go and comment. Also if you look up keyword luv blogs, I’m sure you’ll come across plenty of blogs as well.
You are right Mandy. If you find Keywordluv blogs you will see that many of them also have the Commentluv plugin installed. You can use the same footprint method to find Commentluv blogs. Just search for “CommentLuv Enabled” instead of the other search phrase. Then you will get a list of places that use the Commentluv plugin. There is a footprint for a lot of plugins.
Be careful not to automatically assume that a Commentluv enabled site will allow keywords. That is a terrible assumption that will land you in the Akismet spam filter.
Great tip Kathy. I didn’t know that SEOQuake actually gives you the option of sorting search results. That’s extremely useful especially with what you have talked about below. I will definitely try out your strategy, it seems very promising.
It is simple and it works Julius. All you have to do is put in the time.
Very neat idea. I liked that you mentioned commenting on more current stuff to, because few people like it when someone is simply trolling for links.
Thanks, Steve
Yea Steve. It is really easy to tell that someone is trolling if they are trying to comment on a really old post and their comment is less than impressive. If you want to seem like a more natural blog visitor, then you should always read and comment on one of the most recent posts.
I tried your footprint tip. I searched on google using the keyword “keywordluv@” and it works. I can easily find blogs that offer contentluv and keywordluv. Thanks for the information.
Great Jerry. I wonder how many people who read this tip are actually going to try it. That is one of the great dilemas in the internet marketing world. Even when you tell people how to do certain things, they still don’t do it. Then they wonder why they aren’t getting the results they want.
And I know that you were being honest because I saw a number of your comments elsewhere.
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Thanks Kathy, I’m also starting to search for keywordluv sites. And yes, I am having a hard time finding one. I will take your tips on this articles and download the SEOquake right now. Thanks alot..please keep posting tips such as these to help as many newcomers and or starters like me.
Welcome to my blog Jamie. You should get yourself a Gravatar.
You will find that this method of finding Keywordluv blogs works quite well. You will be able to spend days getting comment links if you are motivated enough to.
Good luck. If you like the article don’t forget to subscribe to in the upper right hand corner. Then you will get notified every time I write a new post.
I have seen references to keywordluv but I don’t know what it is. Apparently it is something useful, so I go research it now. Thanks for the information, I’m sure it will help my learning process.
Mark,
That comment was questionable considering that you are linking to a niche website. It is hard for me to believe that someone with a site like that wouldn’t already know about keywordluv. I didn’t look at your link profile, but I suspect there might be some keywordluv links there already.
I could be totally wrong though. I see that you have placed your Adsense ads in one of the least profitable areas on the page.
Regardless, you are welcome for the dofollow link.
Hi again Kathy
Just found a heap of keywordluv sites. Yippee. I will be busy visiting and commenting. Learning heaps and really enjoying the journey.
Patricia Perth Australia
Patricia,
I can assure you that the key to success in building niche websites is to spend more time promoting your website and building links to it than you spend on developing the site and its content.
From your amount of visits here and the amount of time I see your comments elsewhere, I think you are going to be quite good at building these niche sites. You are to be commended for doing the important stuff and not wasting all your time on things that don’t get you paid.
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Hey Kathy, thanks for the tips. I don’t use Firefox but they have the SEO Quake extension for Chrome. I’ll check it out and see if it works the same way.
I have a question for you, it seems that you are an advocate of KeywordLuv but you don’t use it here. Is that right? Is there a story behind that?
On my blog I don’t have KeywordLuv installed yet, simply because I have too many plugins and I’m trying to get rid of some of them. I might end up adding it soon though, so I’m curious about your reasoning.
Thanks again!
Nice to see you Ileane.
I don’t use Keywordluv here because of the spam monsters. I still get a fair amount of it, but not as much as I would if I had KWluv enabled.
I wanted to keep the outbound link profile clean on this site. I don’t mind giving link juice to my visitors who comment according to my comment policy. But, I don’t trust links that do not follow my policy. If I had Keywordluv enabled, I would not be able to tell who really read my rules and who didn’t.
I also don’t want to link out to MFA (made for Adsense) websites with this particular blog. Like I said, I want to keep the link profile clean. Those people who build MFA sites are not afraid to spam like crazy. I don’t want my links going to sites that are in spam neighborhoods. That’s all.
I have other blogs where I do allow keywords. Just not here.
Great tutorial, thank you. I love dofollow, have been dofollow since the beginning of my blog, haven’t switched over to Keyword Luv yet, but considering it. As far as spammers go, I think they will be there no matter if you’re dofollow or not, not spammers use automated software to post their comments so they don’t know the difference.
I don’t use keywordluv on this site even though I posted about it. I wanted to try to keep the links cleaner on this one. If I am using keywordluv on a site then that is a giant green light for people linking to MFA and thin affiliate sites. I want to minimize that on this particular blog.
Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks for the tips! I also find that making a list of the sites you find which are good blogs, relative to your niche market, they also become valuable when you build a community and work to help new bloggers get started, and start them the right way.
Blessings,
Ron
Ron,
That is definitely good advice. You can use them to get to know people and to build a community around your website.
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