Add Or Integrate Google Plus Comments In WordPress

How To Add Or Integrate Google Plus Comments In WordPress?

By default wordpress has a flexible commenting system, it has powerful settings and it will give you full control over the comments, but one thing that frustrates most wordpress users is that they cannot tolerate SPAM. We have previously posted about preventing SPAM comments in wordpress which helps you to stop SPAM, but that only works effectively if Akismet is activated. We were using wordpress comments in the past and one day unfortunately Akismet failed to do its job and we ended up receiving 2320 SPAM comments. We have to delete all those comments and even some of the quality comments made by our users have also been deleted along with it. So we finally decided to switch to DISQUS commenting system. Most of the wordpress users were using third party commenting systems like DISQUS, Facebook comments, Google + comments etc. We have discussed about adding Facebook comments in wordpress. Now here we will show you how to add or integrate Google plus comments in wordpress.

With more than 1 billion active users Facebook is considered as the most popular social network than Google plus. Anyhow most of the influential bloggers are engaging a lot in Google plus community. They believe that content posted in Google plus are shared a lot and it reaches out wider audience. Google has considered Google plus to be one of their search engine ranking factors and integrations like showing authorship using Google plus has proved to increase your blogs organic traffic. If you look into most of the Blogger blogs you can see that Google + comments were implemented instead of the default Blogger comments. Since Blogger is a product by Google installing Google plus is very easy, but in wordpress you don’t have any official plugins for Google +. Anyways setting up Google plus comments in wordpress is also simple, here we will see it, but before that we will see the pros and cons of adding Google plus comments in wordpress.

Add Or Integrate Google Plus Comments In WordPress

Advantages Of Google+ Comments

1. Google May Love Your Blog

Yes I am saying correct that Google may love your WordPress blog If you will use Google+ comments on your WordPress blog. You may heard before that Google +1’s are more important for the blog posts and If the blog post having good number of Google +1’s then that post is getting higher rank in Google and that is the reason, Google may love your blog. When you will use G+ comments on your WordPress then the traffic coming from G+ will definitely +1 your post in order to show their love and appreciation towards your article.

2. Increase In Number Of Comments

It will also help you in increasing the number of comments on your WordPress blog. After publishing the blog post, when you will promote it on Google+ then the readers coming from G+ will also leave a comment on your blog post because they will see that you are using Google+ comments on your blog therefore they will feel more comfortable with that and they will surely show their appreciation by leaving a Google+ comment on your post. In this way, it will help you to increase number of comments on your article.

3. Can Edit Or Delete Comments

You wouldn’t find this feature in your blog’s comments form. You can edit or delete your comments any time If you feel that you have placed a wrong comment or have placed a comment having spelling errors.

4. Can +1 Others Comments

In comment section, If you finds a comment about that blog post which you are reading and you really liked that comment then you can +1 that comment in order to show your appreciation or to tell that you have liked this comment.

5. Share On Google+ Check Box

Google+ commenting system is really helpful for your WordPress blog in many ways. It will also add a check box to share on Google+ so when the readers coming from Google+ will leave their comment using G+ comment form then they can use this check box to share your post on their Google+ profile which may increase your Google+ traffic.

6. Increase In Visibility

Google+ has a large number of active users and these users are highly engaged with their circles. Therefore you may see increase in visibility.

7. More Convenient

As you know that Google has a large number of active users and these users are already signed in with their Google accounts. So whenever readers coming from Google+ then they will feel more comfortable while leaving comment on your post because they do not have to fill their name, email etc.

Disadvantages Of Google+ Comments

1. Some people doesn’t feel comfortable logging in with their G+ profile and may be some people doesn’t have Google+ account so only Google+ users who are already logged in can comment on your blog post. Placing WordPress commenting system as an alternate option would really be great.

2. You will not have any control on comments approval. Any Google+ user can comment on your article. Some people will leave high quality comments on your post but few will also spam your G+ comment section by leaving spam comments.

3. Another big disadvantage is that You will not get any notification when someone will leave comment on your Google+ comments form. You have to check manually for the new comments.

Adding Google+ Comments In WordPress

First thing you need to do is install and activate the Google+ Comments for WordPress plugin. Upon activation, the plugin adds two options under the Comments menu item in your WordPress admin. Go to Comments >> G+ comments to configure the plugin.

Google+ Comments for WordPress plugin allows you to add a tabbed commenting area. This means that you can have Google+ comments along with other comment options such as your default WordPress comments, Facebook comments, and Disqus. You can arrange the order and the platforms you want to display. You can also change the label for each tab. Once you are done with the settings, click on the Save Changes button.

Conclusion

We hope that this article helped you add Google+ comments in WordPress. Before concluding this article, we feel obliged to let our readers know why we are not using Google+ comments on our site. We are not huge fans of third party commenting systems. We used LiveFyre on our site for a whole year, and ended up switching away. But just because third party commenting system is not a fit for our site does not mean that it doesn’t for others.

Will you be adding Google+ Comments on your site? Let us know your thoughts on Google+ comments by leaving a comment below.