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Increase Your Blog’s Popularity with FriendFeed Comments Plugin

By Mert Erkal in Blog, Making Money Online, Marketing PR, Personal Development, RSS&Subscription, Small Business, Social Networking, WordPress, copyblogger

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Did you know that with every received comment your blog’s SEO is improving? How about you? How popular are your blog posts? Are you writing great articles everyday, yet getting only a few comments just like majority of the bloggers?

What a disappointment! No worries, I have a very good news for you.  You should immediately start using WordPress FriendFeed Comments plugin to increase your blog’s comments. Developed by a young Turkish developer Gurkan Oluc, the plugin automatically submits your WordPress blog posts URLs into FriendFeed, and in return shows all received FriendFeed comments under comments section of your blog posts. It allows you to show FriendFeed comments in your blog, and helps you increase your blog’s popularity.

Who is Gurkan Oluc?

Gurkan is a web developer from Turkey. He has been blogging since 2006, and he likes developing WordPress related software. He also likes developing Web applications using PHP and JS. He developed FrienFeed Comments plugin to help bloggers increase their popularity by increasing interactivity with their readers. Gurkan is only 19 years old, and he wants to be a software engineer in the future.

How the Plugin Works?

Popularity: 19% [?]

Comments

[...] You should immediately Increase Your Blog’s Popularity with FrienFeed Comments Plugin [...]

TeasasTips September 7th, 2008

Thnks Mert, I just downloaded it!

Shamim September 7th, 2008

it does not necessarily have to be comments. you can even update content on a page and search engines will count it as “Updated content” and your website will jump in “freshness” in Google/yahoo index.

Mert Erkal September 7th, 2008

@Shamim: You are absolutely right. But we are talking about improving your blog’s SEO without even updating content by receiving a lot of comments on daily basis.

Beautiful British Columbia September 7th, 2008

[...] I read merkal2005’s blogcatalog broadcast and decided this plug-in sounded great. If it works to increase visits and visitors, that’s wonderful. Thanks merkal2005! [...]

Beautiful British Columbia September 7th, 2008

[...] I read merkal2005’s blogcatalog broadcast and decided this plug-in sounded great. If it works to increase visits and visitors, that’s wonderful. Thanks merkal2005! [...]

AAA Copywriter September 7th, 2008

I have installed the plugin and found my key, but then I can’t find an Options menu. Where should it be?

Aleso, I already use intenseDebate. As far as you know, can the two live together?

Alex

Richard September 7th, 2008

Hey Mert, thanks for the info. I have installed the plugin but the option menu isn’t working. Any suggestion.

Gürkan OLUÇ September 8th, 2008

Hi Everybody,
Options menu is working on Firefox 3.0, Windows XP. But there is a problem on linux distros suck as ubuntu, kubuntu. I’m going to fix it tonight so the new version ot the plugin will be realesed in 1 or 2 days.

Thanks for your feedbacks.

vincos September 8th, 2008

same issue with the option menu on WP 2.6

Gürkan OLUÇ September 8th, 2008

Option menu bug is fixed. you can download it from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-friendfeed-comments/ 1 hour later.

Nishadha September 9th, 2008

The plug-in posts a link in FriendFeed. So someone has to click that link and visit the web page to read it. Then if that guy wants to leave a comment I think he will leave the comment in the blog post. I can’t think of a reason he want to leave a comment on friendfeed. I’m not a heavy user of Friendfeed so I may be not aware of how people use Friendfeed so I may be wrong.

Mert Erkal September 9th, 2008

@ Nishadha: If you use FriendFeed regularly you will notice that some links are getting 20 or more comments. Imagine those 20+ comments will appear in your blog as comments to your post.

Enrico Giubertoni September 9th, 2008

@Gürkan OLUÇ

Something isn’t working yet: it gives this error to me.

Cannot load wp_friendfeed_comments/wp_friendfeed_comments.php.

Gürkan OLUÇ September 10th, 2008

@Enrico : After downloading last version of the plugin from here, delete the wp_ff_comments directory in wp-content/plugins folder then upload wordpress-friendfeed-comments directory to wp-content/plugins folder. Then reactivate the plugin from your plugins page in admin panel. You are getting this error because when you were using previous version of the plugin you updated it to 0.6 version. but in 0.6 version plugin directory is changed to wordpress-friendfeed-comments from wp_friendfeed_comments. When you reactivate the plugin wordpress will update plugin’s path as wordpress-friendfeed-comments/wp_friendfeed_comments.php :)

AAA Copywriter September 11th, 2008

Hey Mert, any news for me? I’ve been told that v. 0.6 is bound come out…

Alex

AAA Copywriter September 11th, 2008

@Gürkan OLUÇ I wanted to D/L v 0.6, but still find 0.5.at the link you gave to Enrico. Is that correct?

Enrico Giubertoni September 11th, 2008

Hi

I tried Friend Feed in a fresh WordPRess 2.6.2 installation on my (fresh reinstalled) local lamp server.

I cleaned all cookies, session, cache, all

It still gives this error:

Warning: assert() [function.assert]: Assertion failed in /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-friendfeed-comments/friendfeed.php on line 18

Cannot load wp_friendfeed_comments/wp_friendfeed_comments.php.

Enrico Giubertoni September 11th, 2008

@Gürkan OLUÇ
FriendFeed version was a redownloaded 0.5 from the link you gave in your comment.

m.dinesh September 12th, 2008

I think this is a great plugin.
It may defeat the top commentators plugin.

Enrico Giubertoni September 12th, 2008

Me too I think that this is a great plugin. I am waiting for the new release 0.6 with all bug fixes.

Isha October 7th, 2008

Can anybody tell me .can i use this plugin for blogger.com for my blog?
Please tell me I want to add this to my blog.

Degrees Based on Life Experience November 15th, 2008

Im going to try this, looks good, thank you. Life-Experience-College-Degrees.com

cashback November 21st, 2008

Great article thanks for the insight.

softwares December 22nd, 2008

i will try this to imporve my blog.

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