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Do Comments and Ratings Really Help Your Website's Stickiness?

by Allen Graves
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I believe it does - without a doubt! And the SE's love the updating content.

I am looking for a top quality comments and ratings system that I can plug into my main article directory here. Here's an example, scroll to the bottom of the page...

http://www.website-articles.net/immi...ttorney-3.html

Free or paid, it doesn't matter as long as it is reliable and search engine friendly.

My current ratings/comments system is great and does a lot of cool Web 2.0-like stuff. But it is not SE friendly - i.e. the comment content is not spidered/indexed.

Does anyone have any suggestions? PM me if it is your own product.

Please remeber that I am looking for top-quality and PLEASE don't say Wordpress. LOL

Thanks,
Allen
#andratings #comments #stickiness
  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    I've been looking at Elgg or BoonEx Dolphin 7 for a new project of mine. I haven't decided if I'm going this route or just to use WordPress again. Anyway, these two are probably worth checking out if you're wanting to have social participation elements.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Awesome - those are exactly what I was looking for.

    Anybody else have some to check out? Money is not a problem...

    Allen
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  • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
    Another vote for Elgg here...

    I've been studying it for about a year now, and finally launched a public network around the first of this year, and I am AMAZED at how much usercontent has been generated in only a little over a month, blogs/bookmarks/group posts/comments, etc... last time I checked, there were more than 5000 seperate pages created (including members profile pages, etc), over 1200 indexed pages so far, and it's growing exponentially.

    So yes, I agree, user-generated-content is the "new king 2.0".

    Allen, not sure how much work it would be to integrate your existing directory into elgg, but I'm sure it's possible.

    Jared

    P.S. Allen or bgmacaw, feel free to message me if you have any questions about Elgg.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Wow, both of those examples are pretty impressive.

    The only thing is - those are complete website integrations. I am just looking for something to plug into my own site/setup.

    I do have a new project that one of these might work with though.

    Does anyone know if Elgg or Dolphin integrate with AMember or SMP Pro?

    Allen
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
    Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

    My current ratings/comments system is great and does a lot of cool Web 2.0-like stuff. But it is not SE friendly - i.e. the comment content is not spidered/indexed.
    Yours appears to be JavaScript-based. So, if JavaScript is off, those comments are not seen. Can't you just roll your own non-JavaScript-based solution? Maybe something in PHP so it runs server-side rather than client-side?

    That's what I'm doing on a site of mine that I'm revamping now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
    Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

    My current ratings/comments system is great and does a lot of cool Web 2.0-like stuff. But it is not SE friendly - i.e. the comment content is not spidered/indexed.
    Just been checking out the comments system you are using, very cool app... could use this on a few projects.

    Anyways, I just found this link which explains how to configure SEO for Echo:
    JS-Kit Community Wiki / Echo - SEO

    Seems like that should do the trick for you?

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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Thanks - I read that before, and from what I remember, it actually WON'T do what I'm looking for. But I'll check it out again and see if maybe I just read it wrong the first time.

    I'm digging these social website sites - very cool.

    Allen
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