Comments on: Tracking comments

By: Dr. Pete

Dr. Pete — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:57:35 +0000

Although it’s been a few months since your post, comment tracking seems to be just as timely of an issue (or even moreso). I’ve been testing the new RSS readers to manage my feeds, but I comment extensively, and very few sites have email follow-up or similar capabilities.

I pondered adding the comment count to my TITLE tags the other day, but there are two problems: (1) from a usability standpoint, the readers constantly seeing it as a new post might annoy people, and (2) it will hurt search engine rank and possibly even cause duplicate content penalties.

By: Marko Mrdjenovic

Marko Mrdjenovic — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:02:29 +0000

It sort-of works. I can’t really get how it works – for example tracking this currently shows 9 comments on coComment while I see 11 comments on the page. This makes coComment unreliable and therefore useless.

It’s also fun how the icon of the plugin keeps changing but I have no idea what the different icons mean :)

By: Stephanie Booth

Stephanie Booth — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:47:13 +0000

Glad it worked for you in the end! :-)

By: Marko Mrdjenovic

Marko Mrdjenovic — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:40:18 +0000

Looks like coComment is what I was looking for. It actually updated the list of comments when I checked back today. And it even displays the comments so you don’t even have to go back to the posts page.

By: Marko Mrdjenovic

Marko Mrdjenovic — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:54:39 +0000

I almost killed coComment today, but then I found out that it actually does something good. It seems like it’s tracking all the comments made to this post – even those not made by coComment users. The annoying thing is that in auto mode it adds three JavaScript files to each site which kind of sucks. I recommend using the favelet instead.

By: Marko Mrdjenovic

Marko Mrdjenovic — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:29:29 +0000

It seems that coComment only tracks my comments and not other peoples comments on the same matter. It seems logical since it would be kinda hard for him to recognise new comments.

One option is to implement some javascript code into the comments page which should make all comments trackable…

By: Marko

Marko — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:52:37 +0000

I don’t, since no tool did it the way I’d expect, when I evaluated them.

Keep us posted about coComment.

By: Marko Mrdjenovic

Marko Mrdjenovic — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:20:05 +0000

This comment is my first test of the coComment service. Will report if it makes any sense…