Disqus alternative for WordPress and other CMS

JointComments is a Disqus alternative, a free comment solution for WordPress and non CMS websites. Adding a comment widget to your website has many benefits, and we will discuss about them in this post.

Blogging is often a one-way street. You talk a lot about a topic, but without the comments, it’s like shouting into an empty room. If you want to give your site a little life, add comments. Turn a static article into a real conversation. It’s not all glitter and gold, though. There are a few occasions when comments can backfire. Here are some of the top ones. When having comments doesn’t really help: Do comments work 100% of the time for every blog? Not necessarily. Several high profile bloggers don’t have comment sections and still survive. Seth Godin doesn’t allow comments on his blog. Never has and never will. Zen Habits is another popular blog without a comment section. So there’s no clear consensus that blog comments are always helpful. In some cases, it may be more of an effort than it’s worth.

All of this shows that comments are not a reliable indicator of blog traffic. If you have a high-quality comment section, you may see a slight boost in traffic from Google, but it probably isn’t going to be so huge that you can’t consider eliminating your comments section if you really wanted to. Conclusion : As we saw in the data above, blog comments are not an indicator of blog traffic. One blog may have tons of comments with little traffic, whereas another blog may have tons of traffic with little comments. Yes, some blogs may receive a slight boost in search traffic due to the comments section. But you’ll need a good amount of high-quality, keyword-rich comments.

Comments bring in credibility. Normal comments have a ‘Name’ field. Now think what happens if I put in ‘Bill Gates’ in that field. Everyone will assume its a fake person. But what happens is often there are popular people who might like your content. These are not necessarily billionaires, but people with authority in their chosen fields. What you want to do is to give credibility to people who are commenting on your blog. If the same comment I was talking about earlier was from Bill Gates’s authorized JointComments account, people would automatically trust it. Have you integrated JointComments comments on your blog? What benefits you have seen after using it, and any cons you know of? Also, do share which method you used to add JointComments comments on your blog?

Embeddable Comment Widget: Get more engagement with our easy to use commenting system. The setup takes just a few clicks. Features: See top commenters & top comments, Ban users permanently or temporarily, Notifications for commenters. Upcoming Features: Thread level comment moderation, Social Media & Gmail Login for commenters, Pin Comments, Auto Approval for Specific Commenters, Akismet integration for SPAM protection, Custom CSS, Monetization with Native Ads, JOINT (erc-20) token rewards. Read more details at Free Comment system for WordPress.