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My Comment Count is Bigger Than Your Comment Count!
With the push towards a successful blog being defined by its comments, a new WordPress Plugin has appeared that may push the comment frenzy even more. PlanetOzh has created the Liz Strauss Comment Counter by Ozh WordPress Plugin which honors the popular blog conversation expert, Liz Strauss. If you want to brag about your blog’s comment [...]

With the push towards a successful blog being defined by its comments, a new WordPress Plugin has appeared that may push the comment frenzy even more.

PlanetOzh has created the Liz Strauss Comment Counter by Ozh WordPress Plugin which honors the popular blog conversation expert, Liz Strauss.

If you want to brag about your blog’s comment count, this is the Plugin to try. The Liz Strauss Comment Counter Plugin adds a chicklet comment counter similar to Feedburner to your blog. You can configure it with a variety of colors and styles. Ozh has included a lot of great features to customize the look to match your blog’s color scheme and styles. This is a great way to show off the number of comments on your blog.

Think about it. Instead of the arbitrary judgment of how many feed subscribers or visitors you have on your blog, you could give valuable feedback to your blog visitors on how social your blog really is. Every time someone leaves a comment, the count increases. Think of the possibilities!

You could have contests that help drive up the comment count. You could ask people to bet on when your comment count will break a significant score like 10,000, 100,000, or maybe even 100. Blogs could compete against each other to raise their comment count. Or it could just sit there and let the world know that you welcome comments. The more the merrier.

The Comment Count Plugin is getting rave reviews and can be seen in action at Hot for Words and Momworx. The Plugin has been translated into Italian, too.

So what would you do with your blog’s comment count score?

Who Are Liz and Ozh?

Thanks to Ozh for honoring the great work Liz Strauss does for the blogging community. If you don’t know Liz, she is the author of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers and founder of the SOB Award which honors unique and original bloggers, author of The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog — The Insider’s Guide to the Conversation That’s Changing How Business Works, and founder of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon), the annual conference which brings together top bloggers with top blogging and business and marketing experts. With more than 70,000 comments on her blog, she’s a leader in the art of the blog conversation.

Ozh of PlanetOzh is one of the top award-winning WordPress Plugin experts in the WordPress Community - probably the world. His Plugins have been top winners in the Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition and are frequently featured in the most popular and top download lists on the various WordPress Plugin directories, listings, and repositories. He has done amazing work with WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, WordPress tools and utilities, web design, coding, and more non-WordPress projects. A few of his most popular Plugins include:

What About WordPress.com Bloggers? We Want to Count Our Comments!

If you are interested in requesting the Liz Strauss Comment Counter by Ozh WordPress Plugin be among the Widget sidebar options for WordPress.com blogs, let them know. Ask in the WordPress.com Forums and chime in behind those who asked first.

One of the ways a WordPress Plugin or Widget makes it into WordPress.com is by being among the top downloaded and most popular Plugins on the WordPress Plugin Directory. If you have the full version of WordPress, have your say on how you like it, and encourage others to download and install it.

I really think that the blog comment war is going to heat up with this new hot Plugin.