{"id":405,"date":"2008-10-15T09:45:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T08:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2008-10-11T21:12:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T20:12:46","slug":"i-get-more-blog-comments-after-installing-disqus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/i-get-more-blog-comments-after-installing-disqus\/","title":{"rendered":"I get more blog comments after installing Disqus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, I installed blog commenting system called <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Disqus\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.disqus.com\/\">Disqus<\/a>. You&#8217;ve probably noticed it around the web alot as they essentially take over your built-in blog comments, and add their own fancy javascript interface over it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged\">\n<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/49548883@N00\/2646471608\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Startup Schwag Bag #9\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3104\/2646471608_5cf499d09e_m.jpg\" alt=\"Startup Schwag Bag #9\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by homard.net via Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>What finally convinced me of the move, was<strong> that they released a <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/disqus-comment-system\/\">Disqus WordPress plugin<\/a><\/strong>, that will sync their comments back into your WordPress comment system, so in case you ever decide to leave them (when testing all of these startup plugins, that&#8217;s important factor), nothing will be lost.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, something interesting happened after that. I started getting more blog comments, after that. I&#8217;m not sure if that means that I wrote better blog posts, but I got a lot of comments and even one video comment via <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Seesmic\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/seesmic.com\">Seesmic<\/a> (really cool!).<\/p>\n<p><strong>I believe that it&#8217;s actually easier for people to leave me comment, as they&#8217;re already logged in into Disqus, as there are no forms to input.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Disqus also has a second positive point, <strong>it allows me to reply to comments directly from my Blackberry<\/strong>. I get emailed all the comments, and they allow you reply via email and it then appears on your blog. So you can have a discussion with your readers, without actually sitting behind a computer.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, enough pitching for Disqus. Get them for free for your blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disqus.com \">http:\/\/www.disqus.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Disclosure<\/strong>: Zemanta and Disqus share investor, but I&#8217;m writing this because I like this phenomena of more blog comments \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogherald.com\/2008\/05\/14\/disqus-and-seesmic-team-up-to-offer-video-comments\/\">Disqus and Seesmic Team Up To Offer Video Comments<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2008\/08\/12\/disqus-wordpress-plugin\/\">Disqus Wants to Own the Commentsphere; It Just Might<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizardstower.co.uk\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/13\/disqus-20\/\">Disqus 2.0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/56f50d76-3b6b-45b4-be2d-856da5f4754a\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=56f50d76-3b6b-45b4-be2d-856da5f4754a\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, I installed blog commenting system called Disqus. 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