Comments on: Facebook Comment Widget: Quick Review

By: mmm

mmm — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:43:45 +0000

That being the case,I ultimately decided to roll my own. Not as quick and easy, but I will be the one in controlmmmm

By: Chuck Stapleton

Chuck Stapleton — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:34:47 +0000

I looked into using both JS-kit and Facebook and I think they are both great ideas.

In addition to the SEO issues, The major problem that I have with both is that I want to control my own data and not be at their mercy.

That being the case,I ultimately decided to roll my own. Not as quick and easy, but I will be the one in control.

By: nate

nate — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:39:23 +0000

I see. But since the search engines don’t index JS-created content, it doesn’t really help with the SEO.

By: Chris Saad

Chris Saad — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:20:30 +0000

Doh haha.

Which part is unclear :)

Check out http://www.js-kit.com/comments and click on the avatars in the demo comments. You will see the visitor profile.

Each one has comment history in it. So as people comment on your blog, and then others, your links appear across our 600,000 registered sites. We will also soon start pushing the comments into Facebook, Google and other social networks for you!

Chris

By: nate

nate — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:49:00 +0000

Yea, that slide deck doesn’t really explain anything more in depth. It’s 9 slides and doesn’t help.

By: Chris Saad

Chris Saad — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:28:34 +0000

Haha – yes if only I could add attachments.

Instead, I have uploaded a slideshow to slideshare that might help explain: http://www.slideshare.net/ChrisSaad/js-kit-network-effects

Would love your ideas/feedback about this from a publisher perspective.

By: nate

nate — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:58:00 +0000

Chris,

I’m not that concerned with (and I haven’t heard much of a rumble about) logging in, threaded conversations being that much better (if they are at all) than flat, attachments, avatars, etc. The email reply feature is nice though.

What I am interested in, though, is how a person leaves a comment on my site, that leaves links back to my post everywhere they go. Could you explain that a bit more?

(I suppose if I had attachments available you could post a diagram… but I suppose you’re probably also savvy enough to use HTML too. :) )

Thanks for making this conversation better.

By: Chris Saad

Chris Saad — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:24:28 +0000

@Nate no problems Nate, sometimes it takes a little explanation.

The advantage for commenting systems these days (on sites that have comment systems already) is multi-facited.

For example our system has Threaded conversation, multiple logins (FB Connect, OpenID and more on the way), email notification (you can actually reply to the email and it ends up on the thread!) advanced moderation features, picture attachments etc.

More importantly, though, as users leave comments around the web, they are populating their user profile. This profile follows them around our 600,000 registered sites leaving links back to your posts everywhere they go. This means more traffic for you.

Hope this helps to clarify some of the value props of a system like JS-Kit comments.

By: nate

nate — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:51:36 +0000

Chris, I appreciate the talk about JS-Kit, but honestly, why? I read through the FAQ and I talked with Disqus and others early on in their development about this kind of widget (commenting systems specifically). On sites that don’t have them, I get it. But on blogs and other systems that have them baked in already, there’s really no point. The added features don’t really convince me that I need to switch to another commenting system.

Mike, thanks for letting me know. That’s kinda cool. :)

By: Mike Anderson

Mike Anderson — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:09:02 +0000

Nice job Nate, you showed up 2nd when I searched “facebook comment widget”