Sorry about the title. Don’t really have any fantasy right now. Well. I have been away from my computer since friday morning. The weekend have been used to meet up with the family, and celebrate my fathers birthday. Woho. It has been a pain without the computer, but I did have my “eee” with me. (Talk about that one in a later post).
The big comment project
If you are a fan of reading blogs and commenting on them, you have probably noticed a guy called “Danny Cooper”. He is everywhere, and if you have a decent blog in this niche chances are big that hes on your blog as well. Nothing wrong with that though. Thing is, Danny have a project going, called “October Case Study: Blog Commenting“.
Danny sent me an mail asking for a plug, so here you go. 
To sum up the plan Danny got he got a list of about 60 blogs which he are following each day. Each time someone makes a post he will leave a comment. He claims that he is not going to spam, but tell his honest opinion on the subject posted. This case study is going to all October. When October is over, he will make a report, where he disclose traffic, referrals, back links etc.
I think it’s a good approach to increase traffic/subscribers, and it will be fun to see the result. Check out Dannys blog here:
What about VikingBlogger?
Hopefully you have noticed that my posting frequents has increased by a lot lately. And to my joy a lot of you old guys still are hanging around, and are starting to make comments again. There is also a couple new faces. I would love to know more about my readers. So if you want to tell me and rest of the crowd more about yourself and your site(s) your welcome to do so below in a comment.
The top commentators
Once in a while I like to give something back to my commentators. One of the way I do that is by giving them a link. Well, it’s time to give the top 5 some love again. Here is the guys that have made the most comments on VikingBlogger so far in October.
Top Commentators
Gravatar added
I have added gravatars to the comments. So now you can easly see who have made the comment. This is also a good opportunity to brand yourself. If you haven’t made yourself a gravatar yet, you should do so now. Just go to Gravatar.com and sign up for an free account.
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Thanks for the plug dude, that’s a really nice mini review you did there! I’m extremely grateful, and your top commentator looks really cool!
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October 9th, 2008 at 10:52 am
I’m just wondering if there is any blog I visit without you in the top list….all the best, buddy..
Yan
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Heh i had posted a tutorial on how to use gravatars and add to your profile, in my blog
Btw thanks for the link love!
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Hey, thanks for the link love man – will be sure to return it some time.
It’s a good thing u have going thanking the top commentators each week – I might implement it myself
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@Danny Cooper: You think it looks cool only because your on top, right?
@Chetan: I’m not completely happy with the placement of the gravatars. Put then again I haven’t tried to make it better. I just installed the mod, and left it there.
@Simon from Otooo: No problem mate, thank you for taking some time reading the blog.
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Well my name does increase its coolness factor. When are you going to install threaded comments!?
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October 7th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Alright, threaded comments are installed. Just testing it out.
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Thanks for the back link man
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@Danny: I was actually thinking about it earlier today. I guess it’s on time to do it now. Give me a couple minutes.
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October 7th, 2008 at 10:53 am
I just got a strange email from this blog, something about commenting, it was barely English though
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October 7th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Hehe, I guess I have to rewrite that. Not sure It will be better though, but I’ll give it a shot.
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October 7th, 2008 at 11:27 am
I think the email should be better written and more understandable now.
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I’m impressed with Danny’s commenting strategy and yes, he is everywhere. 60 blogs? That’s insane.
Yan
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I couldn’t but notice you posting about getting back on the posting wagon, and seeing a lot of the old faces come back.
I have but two remarks to that:
1. LOA: an old face back again
2. I got back to serious blogging and NONE of my old face came back.
Time to invest in some new faces (and I guess a gravatar as well!)
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That’s a very interesting idea. I’m really excited to see the success of it, because that could be made into a blueprint for future success if it pays off. Linkersblog is fascinating, because of how fast it’s been taking over the blogging world. I’m still trying to figure out what he did lol to advertise his site, because we should all try to model it. The site hasn’t been around for that long, props to danny.
Jonathan Muller
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thanks for the plug my man…
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