How to Get the Maximum out of Facebook Comments Plugin

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1. Rose from Samui Art Gallery says:

   January 25, 2011 at 11:27 pm

   Hi Brankica,
   How do you know what I am thinking in my mind.
   What a coincidence! I see my Facebook account today with the comment I post via your blog last time about Twitter followers. (Social Saturday #1), although it look not bad but somehow I think that I should improve it so my friends can also understand what I am talking about.
   Thank you for the tips, I should add this plugin to my blog very soon.
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2. Brankica from Social media fan says:

   January 25, 2011 at 11:38 pm

   Hello Rose,
   I am so glad you liked it.
   Now that you think about it and see the comment in front of you, you know exactly what I was talking about
   If you are already commenting, why not helping a blogger by promoting the post better, right…
   And if you are commenting on your own blog, replying to someone, you sure are gonna do your best to make it clickable.

   Make sure to inform us all when you install the plugin so we can swarm you with comments
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3. Elise says:

   January 26, 2011 at 9:06 am

   This is interesting! I see the Facebook comments in other places, but I never particularly liked them haha. When it comes to my personal Facebook profile, I use it completely for personal reasons, so I never comment with my FB profile. But I can see the benefit here. I don’t think I’ll install it anytime soon, but maybe I will at some point in the future. Great post, Brankica. Thanks!
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   Brankica from Social media fan Reply:
   January 26th, 2011 at 9:17 am

   Lol, thanks Elise, but how about installing it and letting other comment on your post and share it on THEIR walls
   But not to joke too much about a serious thing like Facebook, I understand what you are saying and it makes a lot sense.
   Some people keep their blogging away from personal profile. I can only imagine if we shared on Facebook what we share on Twitter.
   With all those links I think we would lose a friend or two
   Thanks for taking the time to comment!
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4. Peggy Baron says:

   January 28, 2011 at 12:58 am

   Hi Brankica,
   Thanks for talking about this nifty little plugin and how to use it. So far I’ve only been using Facebook on a personal level and I’d like to start using it for business, but keep the two separate.

   Thanks,
   Peggy
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   Brankica from Social media fan Reply:
   January 28th, 2011 at 5:38 am

   Peggy, thanks for taking the time to comment.

   You can keep it separate in the way that once you create a fan page, all the posts you write on the page are listed as page’s posts, not your own.

   You can check out my page to see what I am talking about. You can’t see my profile posting there but the fan page.

   The interesting thing is, if you have 10 admins on the page, all 10 will be posting as a page and not their personal profiles. So if you need any help feel free to contact me.
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5. Fran Aslam says:

   January 28, 2011 at 11:20 am

   Hi Brankica:

   Nice to meet you at this site. I am assuming it is your first guest post. Wonderful, post it is well written, well formatted, and great free social media net work promotion. You made me feel how I am missing on a big chunk of Internet by not using it.

   Keep on moving to a higher level.

   Ben Thanks for getting me the opportunity to read the Facebook info.

   Fran A
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   Brankica from Social media fan Reply:
   January 28th, 2011 at 11:30 am

   Fran, thanks for the nice words. I know you as one of my readers as well, or at least commentators

   You better get on this Facebook wagon if you don’t want to miss on the great opportunity to connect your blog with Facebook and its 500 million users.
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6. elena Silverfox from DModern Aboriginal Mama says:

   January 29, 2011 at 5:47 pm

   Hi Brankica!

   I tripped onto BenWan.net and saw you had a guest post here, so I had to say hello. I’m making the slow move from Blogger to WordPress, and while I can’t use plug-ins yet (free WP blog) I still take notes for the future! The power of Facebook for social media is less of a mystery thanks to you!

   Delena
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   Brankica from Social media fan Reply:
   January 31st, 2011 at 9:54 am

   It is good that by the time you move to WP self-hosted blog you will already know what works and what doesn’t

   Thanks for saying hi and make sure you visit us often!
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7. Sire says:

   January 30, 2011 at 9:48 am

   Hey Ben,

   Nice to see a guest post by Brankica, she’s a lot easier on the eye than you are mate

   You don’t know how often I’ve seen this on other blogs and had wondered about it. I’ve never really saw the benefits to it until I read your post. I can now see the opportunities I’m missing out on, as far as extra comments are concerned, by not having it installed.

   I think I may have to just give this a little try.
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   Ben Wan from Wordpress Technical Support Reply:
   January 30th, 2011 at 11:43 am

   Hi Sire,

   Yes, Brankica is just smashing it in the blogosphere. Facebook Comments plugin is worth trying, anything that can bring you more visitors is worth using.

   Ben Wan
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   Brankica from Social media fan Reply:
   January 30th, 2011 at 11:56 am

   Definitely worth a try, Sire. You can see my Facebook profile wall, has several comments posted and all of them linking to posts I commented on.

   It can really get you some traffic, all that needs to be done is make a good comment

   Thanks for commenting.

   Ben, you really make me blush
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   Sire Reply:
   February 1st, 2011 at 5:54 pm

   I still haven’t decided if I’m going to install it yet. Ater taking a closer look at it I’m not sure I like the way it comes before the actual comments.
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   Brankica from Social media fan Reply:
   February 2nd, 2011 at 4:38 am

   You can actually put them behind the comments. Although, they are ACTUAL comments, you know

   At the moment, you can move them below comments manually but the author is developing the plugin more and plans to put the option to be automatic.
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8. Peter J says:

   January 30, 2011 at 5:17 pm

   The facebook commenting plugin sounds like a brilliant idea, but that all depends on the person
   I use facebook more for personal reasons, so spamming my wall with all my comments wouldn’t really be the best idea. So it really depends on how you use facebook.
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   Brankica from Social media fan Reply:
   January 31st, 2011 at 8:02 am

   What do you mean spamming your wall, you don’t write spammy comments

   I think it is a great tool and as you say, it only depends on how you use Facebook. Also, there are a lot of people that will comments using it, just cause it is so easy.

   Thanks for the comment Peter
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9. Ileane says:

   January 31, 2011 at 7:46 am

   Hey Brankica and Ben, I decided to leave a comment here too, so I can get the benefits of CommentLuv.
   Do you think this plugin is slowing down the page load speeds? I noticed that Ana’s blog was taking a long time to load, but I this one still loads pretty quick. Let me know what you guys think.
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   Brankica from Social media fan Reply:
   January 31st, 2011 at 8:00 am

   Oh, Ileane, I can’t really believe you commented for the Luv, I see your comments all over the place and there is always something to learn from them

   I think it is the other things that slow down the loading time. Usually by the time you scroll down this plugin already loaded.

   I noticed that my pages load slow when there are a lot of comments, and Ana’s posts usually have a lot of them.

   In general, I think it is the other stuff one the page that is “creating the problem”.

   Try it out if you like it and see what you experience. I guess you can always deactivate it but then, it is a great way to get more comments and exposure

   By the way, the comment you made in the plugin is one of the great examples on how to use it!
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10. Adrienne says:

    February 1, 2011 at 4:49 am

    Hi Brankica,

    Thanks for the post. I recently installed the Facebook comment plugin on both my blogs and find that I’m getting more comments. People are locating my blog from other friends walls so that’s what I have found to be really cool about this pulugin.

    You really wrote about some key points so thanks for that reminder. I’m probably not using it entirely correct which is why I love to learn from others. Thanks so much for pointing this out to me.

    Best to you,

    Adrienne
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    Brankica from Social media fan Reply:
    February 1st, 2011 at 8:08 am

    Seems like your blog is experiencing what I was talking about here, which is great. So happy to hear that you are getting more visitors after your friends seeing the comments.

    Thanks for the comment!
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11. Alex Neill says:

    February 1, 2011 at 5:19 pm

    Hey cool guest post, I did several tests with and without the plugin (which I have been using for sometime now) and it does load very slow, however it is still a cool plugin to have.

    Facebook sends me a ton of traffic, it is now my number one source of traffic to be honest and thats thanks to the feeds I have pulled into my fb.

    Facebook is certainly not something to turn your nose up at if you are marketing online, just so long as you capitilize on the traffic you get, know you numbers etc, it can certainly be an excellent free traffic source.

    Alex
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    Brankica from Social media fan Reply:
    February 3rd, 2011 at 12:18 am

    Alex, thanks for the awesome comment. You are so right, if we don’t analyze and use the numbers we are doing all this for nothing.
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12. Alex says:

    February 3, 2011 at 8:54 am

    Brankica,

    Great post, packed full of usable information – so thanks for compiling that for us. I too see the comments section for Facebook but never really knew how to either make the most of it – or see how it could be good for traffic etc.

    Thanks for sharing, and Ben thanks for having her
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    Brankica from Social media fan Reply:
    February 4th, 2011 at 10:40 am

    Well, I guess I will wait and see if you will put this to use
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13. John Garrett says:

    February 4, 2011 at 9:55 am

    Ben & Brankica! Looks like another awesome team-up, guys. I slept on this post so I’m late to the party here. Especially since I just implemented the Facebook Comments the HARD way. Sheesh!

    I’m gonna go nab this plugin and do it the easy way now…also I’m gonna go back and comment in the Facebook section just because I can
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    Brankica from Social media fan Reply:
    February 4th, 2011 at 10:41 am

    Lol, that’s the spirit, John. A real James Bond….
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14. Adrienne says:

    February 10, 2011 at 10:16 am

    Great post Brankica. Came to Ben’s blog and what a pleasant surprise.

    I installed this plug-in a couple weeks ago on both of my blogs and found it to be really helpful. I don’t think a lot of people are familiar with the benefits of it but you definitely pointed those out nicely for us. Thanks for that. Now when someone asks me, I’ll forward them to this post.

    Great job Brankica,

    Adrienne
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    Brankica from How to blog Reply:
    February 10th, 2011 at 10:46 am

    Thanks, Adrienne.
    I love this plugin and I just hope the author will update it with an option to receive notifications in your WP dashboard as well as a reply system, so we can use it similar to the default WP commenting system.

    I appreciate the nice words and the comment
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15. Anne Sales from Coupon Codes says:

    February 10, 2011 at 4:55 pm

    It’s a very good plugin. I believe it will be very useful to my own upcoming blog because 99.97% of my friends don’t find time to visit my blog but they are highly active on facebook.
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16. Jane from Blogging Tips says:

    March 27, 2011 at 12:16 pm

    Hey Brankica,

    I have read about this plugin and have visited blogs that use thi plugin. I am not so attracted by it. But I must say that using this plugin will certainly improve the exposure for out blog.

    I am just doubtful if this plugin will slow down loading of the site! I will try it quite soon.

    Cheers,
    Jane.
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17. Vera Samui says:

    April 6, 2011 at 4:18 am

    Ben Thanks for getting me the opportunity to read the Facebook info. You’re one of the best technical writers in the world!
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18. Lewis LaLanne from Marketing Notes says:

    January 4, 2012 at 7:45 am

    Hey Brankica,

    I thought this insight of yours was HUGE in an understated kind of way . . .

    “New visitors who are considering if they should comment will see that you communicate with the readers and they are more likely to comment on the post.”

    With Facebook, it seems to me that reciprocity is huge – the whole, “I’ll comment on and like your posts if you comment and like mine. And I think this is even more significant on Facebook than on blogs.

    With blogs, especially mega business focused ones like Copyblogger and such, I believe that people ‘get’ that there’s no way possible for the guru to continue to run their business and sit on every comment that comes in and engage.

    But people in Facebook mode don’t play by those rules because by in large, those people are spending big hunks of their spare time there and they don’t seem to want to want to play with you if you don’t play with them.

    So thank you for reminding me of this oh-so important lesson and for giving me one more nudge to finally get this plug-in installed.
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