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We all know that posting comments on related blogs is great way to get your blog noticed by influential people in your niche. Unfortunately, tracking all those comments can be a real pain.
Some blogs allow you to subscribe to an individual post’s comments via email but what if you want to follow the comments on a large number of posts? You could get hundreds of email reminders each day. Fortunately, there is an easier way.
All three of these services makes it easy to track your comments.
co.mments
co.mments is a very simple way to track comment conversations. After registering, you add a bookmarklet to your browser and the next time you want to track a conversation simply click on the new bookmarklet. The conversation will then be recorded for you. You can track your conversations on the co.mments site or subscribe to your conversation via an RSS feed.
Commentful
Commentful is a service that helps you track blog posts and notifies you when a new comment has been added. After creating an account and installing the Firefox plugin you can right click on any post that you want to track and select “Add to Commentful”. A little light bulb in your Firefox status area lets you know if there are new comments. If you don’t use Firefox, you can add pages to your watchlist using a bookmarklet.
coComment
coComment keeps track of all the online conversations you’re following in one convenient place, and informs you whenever something is added to a conversation. coComment is the easiest to use because it has the ability to automatically track any blog or site where you post a comment. That’s right, you just post your comments and it takes care of the rest!
coComment also adds a toolbar to the comment form of most of the blogs that you visit allowing you to tag your comments.
*This post was written as part of the Three Blog Project over at DailyBlogTips.
pretty good 3 post, i wouldnt of thought of this lol
check out mine
http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/07/07/three-steps-to-keeping-your-rss-feed-readers/
good luck?
vote for me! lol
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
thanks for stopping by
had you already had the idea for this article before or after you decided to enter it for dailyblogtips ?
I decided on this topic after deciding to participate.
Actually, a reader emailed me on Friday asking if I had tried any of these services. And I thought… hmmm… that sounds like a good post for Daniel’s writing project. I had another idea but decided to go with this one instead.
I generally avoid subscribe comment, by post as sometimes comment spam also reach in our inbox and sometime we receive email after 6 months of commenting, so that is not pretty useful. But the services which you recommended are appears to be useful. Will try some.
I found this post via dailyblogtips here is my entry, you may check
http://www.helloashok.com/contest/three-reasons-why-i-like-contest/152/
I agree, I also avoid the subscribe to comments via email.
Thanks for the link.
I subscribe to comments if I feel there is an interesting discussion going on and I want to participate. It is an useful option to have.
I also don’t subscribe comment… I just post comment when the post is interesting. By The Way, I haven’t try those 3 comment service… Which one should I pick?
I havent used any of them either. But I believe that coComment is the most popular option.
I would say coComment is the most popular but I think I like Commentful the most. I can be more selective with what I track and coComment has a few problems as mention by JoLynn in her comment below.
Thanks for that. I was just coming to ask which one you prefer and there it is
Nice post. And best of luck regarding the contest.
I am also participating in it
Awesome! I have often wondered what those services offer, and now that my inbox is full to the brim of comments from other blogs, I feel I should invest in one of them. Nice work!
I would link to my entry, but you already have
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I never knew these services existed! Good post! There are times when I want to keep an eye on a post, but getting an e-mail every 10 minutes can be quite maddening.
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been using co.mments and it’s a cool little tool … some good stuff there!
Darin
I’ve been registered with coComment for about 3/4 years now and I can’t say its ever been at all helpful to me! Its just another list of things to read if you ask me!
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I never knew such a thing existed! Looks like something I should try.
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Wow! I had never heard of these sites. Excellent.
I am going to have try them out, I get tired of going through an enormous amount of email to keep track of conversations.
Which one is your favorite?
All the best,
George
Hi George,
I am currently using Commentful.
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Love the comment trackers. I’m going to go with co.mments; the name is attractive too.
Wow, wish I would have heard of the writing project, looks like the deadline was yesterday so it’s too late to enter now.
I loved the Problogger group writing project and this would have been similar.
Oops, meant to add….thanks for the 3 comment tracking suggestions David…I will try one of or both of the first 2.
BTW, I was using cocomment previously but it doesn’t work with blogs using the “reply to this comment” plugin. I also think there are other bugs with it because it didn’t work on a few other blogs that weren’t even using that plugin, so I stopped using it.
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I hate all of those emails that you get when you subscribe to comments, so I usually don’t subscribe, but I will check out these services, thanks for the tips
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David,
I will try out commentful first then.
Thanks a lot for the information.
Thanks for giving the links to all the comment services and providing information about them. I am a blogger and I didn’t know that such services existed. Thanks Alot!
PS: Nice blog…and keep posting!
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So excited for this..
Although I stopped subscribing to comments due to the emails and distraction, now I will actually be more distracted
Read about this on Georges Blog.. He is great
~~ andrea
Like other people commented,I also did’nt realize those services existed.
Good post.
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My favorite way to track comments is by simply using Google Reader. It works quite effectively and I can read all of my information including others blog posts and sports news.
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Thanks for the useful information, I like keeping in touch with the comments I leave and the people I speak with but it’s a real chore and bother having them via email especially if you have lots. I’ll be looking into them; not sure which I prefer yet
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I also Want to tray co.mments.. I like Their way to give the Name! So they Buy .mments and make the co Subdomain… Really Cool and nice Idea
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This sounds interesting. I did not know that their was an easier way to track comments. I am glad that I found this post.
wow, this is nice tools. i try another one. thanks.
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This looks really interesting - all too often I submit a comment with a question directed to the other or other contributors, then forget all about it!
- Martin Reed
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signed up for cocomment … it’s a neat little tool … still playing with it … i’ll give me thoughts once i get the hang of it!
Darin
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For now, the majority of my comments come from my head, and that’s easy to keep track of! I’ll look into that when I start rollin’ in comments..
Ever since starting to comment a lot on different blogs I have gotten so lost about where I posted and if anyone responded to my comments. Now I know how! This will get me noticed…
I knew about blogflux, but the other two were still undiscovered for me, will soon check them out.
Blogflux is really useful I incorporated it into my Africa blog,
I will try this and see how it works out
Thanks
Thanks a lot! Useful article!
I never knew these services existed! Good post! There are times when I want to keep an eye on a post, but getting an e-mail every 5 minutes can be quite maddening.