How to install Disqus comments system on your blog?

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If you have browsed through different big blogs, they have a huge number of readers and those blogs got lots of comments on them their posts. Some of them are old and got 100-300 or even 1000 comments. As a new reader to that blog, you will be impressed with that number and that’s the true attraction of blogging.

It may take 10 minutes to read an article but that person will spend hours on your blog to read what everyone is saying about your thoughts and this will inspire him to comment too. Now you are feeling the importance of your blog comments.

Some of the bigger blog platforms like blogger(blogspot) itself has a lack of quality comments system. You have to go to another page, then have to sign in with your account, write your comment, have to fill up the crazy word and then you comment.

Lots of the people in the internet are lazy and lots of them don’t want to comment on blogger blogs. You can easily change your comments system with a wordpress like comments system. There are now two comments providers on the internet,

IntenseDebate
Disqus

I’m using IntenseDebate for months and it helped me to get more comments. Disqus is in the business for a long time so I tried out this system on my blogger blog, BlogKori.

You have to go to Disqus.com and have to ‘get started.’ Now fill up your blog’s address, name and you will get a subdomain on disqus. I used ‘BlogKori‘ as my subdomain.

*Now select your blog platform, like wordpress, blogger, typepad etc. I’m a blogger user so I continued with blogger.

Now on the page, they will tell you to ‘log in‘ to your blogger account. From your dashboard, click ‘layout‘ and then click ‘edit HTML‘ tab. Now download your blog’s template on your computer.

Now switch to the Disqus window: On the bottom, mark on, ‘use disqus on all posts.’ Browse and locate your blog’s template (which you have just downloaded) and click ‘upload.’ Now you will see an HTML on disqus. ‘Copy‘ the code.

Now switch to the Blogger window: Click on ‘expand widget templates‘ select all of the HTML code in blogger and ‘delete/ remove‘ it. Now paste the new code (which you just coppied from disqus) and click ‘save template.’

Now switch to the Disqus window: Click ‘I’m done.’ View your blog and experience the new comments system.

With disqus,

You can get email updates when there is a new comment
You can have your own profile and comment on other blogs with it
Set different options, set who can comment, moderate comments
Have your blog’s community on, yourname.disqus.com
They will stop spam comments

Set up Disqus on your blog and see the difference. By the way, comment on this post to see how Disqus works.

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{ 13 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Busby SEO Test January 16, 2009 at 10:16 am

thanks for the information about disqus,, i think i learn something about that!

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2 Tamal Anwar January 16, 2009 at 10:52 am

@Busby SEO Test: Disqus is a cool comments system and I used it a lot when I was in blogger

3 Patricia March 13, 2009 at 1:01 am

Thanks for your info.Great as usual

4 Swashata April 13, 2009 at 7:10 am

Thanks for this tuto! I was trying to install disqus but It was not getting installed correctly! Then I switched to intense debate! As I have a highly modified template :D so it was also not integrating fully! But from this post of blogger buster I successfully installed it with a bit modification of the code! Its really gr8! Also I saw this system on your blogspot blog :)

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5 Tamal Anwar April 13, 2009 at 6:09 pm

@Swashata, I tried intense debate and then I used disqus with blogkori. Disqus is popular and more people use the system.

6 Swashata April 13, 2009 at 9:36 pm

@Tamal Anwar, Actually I previously modified my template to make a comment number on the top of the screen beside the Date [Which I have pushed down the title using a hack].. May be that was the reason behind integration problem of disqus! The main reason of choosing intense debate was that I could find the codes needed to integrate it by myself! The looks of intense debate is also good! I have google a bit and found both of them to be tough competitor!! Is there any paid upgradation option for intense debate! I have already lost 4-5 comments [Although they are on blog system and shows up on default comment feed, but intense debate has disabled importing comment for some bug for now!] and really dont want to switch to disqus again to lost more :(

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7 seo indian services June 25, 2009 at 4:12 pm

Thanks for the great post, Disqus commenting system really helps for SEO.

8 Tamal Anwar July 2, 2009 at 9:21 pm: I guess it’s not! It linkes to your disqus profile, not your blog. So it’s a nice comments system but not good for SEO.

9 PowerMax May 5, 2009 at 6:17 pm

The articles are very informative, thanks for sharing.

10 Mark O Terrivel June 3, 2009 at 7:01 am

Thanks for the post!

11 Tamal Anwar July 2, 2009 at 9:22 pm

@PowerMax
@Mark O Terrivel

~thanks for those comments!

12 Hassaan October 15, 2009 at 11:23 pm

Is there any good comment system for a right-to-left language blog. My language Dhivehi is not officially supported, so the blogger comment page/i-frame stays in english.

Any tips/help would be appreciated

13 Amit February 10, 2010 at 11:00 am