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Why Instant Site Comments?

For a long time I’ve wanted more participation out of the visitors to my sites, not to mention encourage them to come back more often. Who doesn’t want that? After all, the more times a visitor returns to my site, the more likely I am to make money from them.

However, I wasn’t satisfied with a lot of the current options out there.

At first I considered adding a forum to spice things up, but I already mentioned above why I decided against adding one.

Converting my sites into blogs also crossed my mind, but I didn’t like the idea of changing the URLs of my content when I moved it into the blog system, not to mention the hassle of copy-and-pasting a bunch of content.

Of course there are other options out there, but none of them struck me as appropriate for my niche sites.

What Exactly Is Instant Site Comments?

Instant Site Comments is a PHP script you can install on nearly any website to allow your visitors to leave comments on your content.

Simply placing a SSI (server side include) or PHP include on any page of your site will display a comment form along with the past comments left for that page only. This resembles blog comments, without the hassle of transferring your site into a blog. Don’t worry if this sounds complicated, it’s very simple to get running.

If you’re interested to see what Instant Site Comments looks like, you can preview it below. Don’t worry, it will open in a new window and you’ll learn even more about its features as you read below. However, I recommend that you read this entire page first and then come back up here to preview it.

By implementing Instant Site Comments you can:

 Have FREE content generated for your site by your visitors, which results in .... Heck, it would be easier if I just write it out!

 Cut down on questions visitors email you. If you have a high traffic site, you know what kind of hassle it can be to respond to the simplest questions and requests. Allow your visitors to post their question at the bottom of the article for anyone else to answer.

 Avoid the hassle of transferring your site into a blog system (Blogger, Wordpress, etc.) and lose traffic as a result of changed URLs

Steal The Strategies Of ”The Big Boys”

It’s no secret that we’re in the age of user driven websites, or what many have dubbed “Web 2.0.” YouTube and MySpace are perfect examples of this Web 2.0 phenomenon, however it’s surprisingly simple to apply their successful strategies to all of your niche websites.

But first, do you know what these key strategies are?

Repeat traffic and fresh, user-generated content!

Both YouTube and MySpace have mastered these strategies extremely well. The bulk of their content is user generated and most of their traffic is repeat from their current members. This makes both of these sites (or others that implement the same techniques) largely insulated from changes in the search engines.

The secret is to weave these strategies into your niche sites and reap the same benefits. Instant Site Comments WILL allow your visitors to generate fresh content for you, while encouraging them to return more often to read what others have posted, or post more comments themselves.

But The Benefits Keep Coming

Besides the obvious benefits of using Instant Site Comments listed above, here are a couple powerful ideas to use this script on your sites.

• Let customers give you instant TESTIMONIALS for your own products! What better way to gather testimonials and real user experiences- that LOOK and really ARE real!

• Are you publishing PLR articles? By adding commenting to those articles, you can further customize that content to help beat duplicate content penalties.

• While content is more than just words, the search engines primarily only return pages with text on them. Use the script on pages "light" on text - allow visitors to comment on pages with just pictures, such as an image gallery. This can help index pages that otherwise would have been missed.

Afraid To Hand Over The Keys To Your Site?

No Problem - Here’s Why...

Perhaps you’re a little apprehensive about allowing your visitors to post content onto your site. After all it is YOUR site and not theirs. And like blog comments and forums, there will always be the potential for inappropriate/SPAM posts.

But I’ve had some pretty nifty features built into the password-protected admin area of Instant Site Comments to deal with these issues. You’ll love these:

• Automatic or manual verification of comments left by your visitors. If you’re afraid of inappropriate content showing up on your site, you can approve each comment before it goes live.

• Edit and/or delete offensive comments.

• Allow or disallow HTML to be used in the comments. This is to help combat link spam.

• Captcha image verification to prevent spam bots from automatically posting. You’ve seen these before, where you must enter a security image with numbers and letters into a box to confirm that you’re human and not a robot.

In addition, the administration area will also give you full control to:

• Set the maximum number of comments to be returned on a page, with a link to "View All" of the comments for a particular page. This is useful if you’re afraid the user’s comments will clutter up your articles or affect any keyword density levels.

• Display the comments by most recent or oldest first.

• Built in template editor to control the look & feel of everything; you can blend the comments and form seamlessly into your site.

publisher-author

Ohio Internet Marketing (Robert Blackstone)

Requirements

PHP/MySQL

Version

1.0

License

Single Server License

Created

2006/08/2

Updated

2007/08/3

Platform

Linux/Apache

Money Back

n/a

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