DISQUS (pronounced discuss) is a global blog commenting system. It consolidates the comments you make on other blogs and the comments you get on your own blog into one easy to manage dashboard. It becomes very easy for commenters to chat with each other and you, and that’s a win for your blog.
This post, rather than being a review of DISQUS, will focus on making the most of your DISQUS profile once it’s setup.
Fill out your DISQUS profile.
Completing your DISQUS profile isn’t a time-consuming exercise but it’s worth taking some extra time to fill out every field especially your name, avatar, and your bio.
PRO TIP: Your bio appears after your published comments and gives you a great chance to spark some interest in who you are and what you do.
PRO TIP: Populate your name, in addition to your username, so your image presentation in comment threads is a little more approachable.
Connect your DISQUS profile and merge your comments.
If you post a comment using your Facebook or Twitter (or Google, Yahoo! or OpenID) login, you can ensure they all get merged into your DISQUS blog comments dashboard. By connecting your DISQUS and social media profiles, you can also share your comment on social media as you hit submit.
If you’ve posted blog comments in the past and used the same email address as your DISQUS profile, you can merge those blog comments into your DISQUS dashboard with a few clicks. In fact, DISQUS will prompt you to merge your profiles.
Using DISQUS means you only have to manage single profile to view all your blog comments, making life just that little bit easier.
Do you use DISQUS comment system? Let me know if you’re a fan, or not, and whether you maximise your profile.
Belinda
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People love my Disqus profile pic. I am really impressed with the traffic that Disqus brings to my website evaluator
Disqus is an impressive commenting system. Aside from its easy to navigate with, it also get along with websites that are for SEO based.
I’ve only just signed up, so looking forward to seeing how it integrates with everything else!
great article. thanks
Great article, its worth reading. Keep on posting updates about to disqus, for us using this engine in our blogs will be updated.
Nice post and tips.
You have a lot of great information in this post.
Really Nice but Can You Tell Me How Find Disqus Blog List ??
I have to admit that I’m not sure what you mean by Disqus blog list. If you can add some more info I’d be happy to help!
nice post
If there is no option for guest posting for building of links, still people use their Disqus profile for the same purpose. Can you please tell how to do this?
Hi Dolly. I’m not so sure that guest posting isn’t beneficial for guest posting… perhaps I’m wrong though. I’d love to hear more.
very helpful article
thank you
Helpful article. Been using Disqus commenting system for quite long now for my blogs. It really boost interaction between fellow readers. For some you can disable guess postings and use other logins like social media accounts to somehow connect with fellow readers.
Helpful article. I think its worth reading. Keep on posting updates about to disqus, for us using this engine in our blogs will be updated.
One thing I wanted to ask. I have checked the option for media attachments but there’s no way to limit the size (which is enormous) I find having a full size youtube video or a large sized pic pretty distracting for my readers.
Excellent publish, very informative post!!! Disqus commenting platform provides many key benefits for the betterment of the blogging community.
How can we link the author name to profile page…so that when a author name is clicked his profile information should display…
Hi Mahesh. I believe your author name links to whatever URL you put in your Disqus profile.
useful.. thanks..
We have been using diqus for commenting for quite a while. Still don’t really know how it works. Will my comment link to my website Etc ?
Hi Jason, If you fill out your profile or your guest profile I believe it will.
thanks for a great share definitely follow your guidelines to make my disqus id good a more effective
Oh, beautiful. I even *have* DISQUS on my own blog and had no idea what it was. I was just browsing your articles and found this gem. Off to write my profile now. Check out my blog if you like: http://www.purecopywriting.com (well, in future that will be in my profile!)
Lovely Jubbly Matt! It’s a pretty sweet tool.
Thanks for the tips, love to use DISQUS.
There was a lot of great information in this article. Disqus can be a bit of minefield if not used correctly. What would you suggest for the best method to find more disqus enabled websites to generate more traffic back to your own content?
I’m not sure Gabriele. That might be a question for Disqus!
Merge linkedin and DISQUS!
I’m new to Disqus but I am looking forward to seeing what it will do for improving user interaction on my blog. I hope its as good as its touted to be!!!
Thanks for this useful information. I am also using Disqus on behalf of my company. So now I can make my profile more better by these useful information.
Hi, I just new to the disqus network. You’ve shared information really useful for me. Make sure will try to implement those things on my profile.
But if I have a few sites, how can I add links of all of them in the profile using disqus? Or do you have any suggestion?
Huge huge fan of it. I can see Disqus taking off in a very real way because it can potentially give people a quite expansive idea as to who you are which as a musician in the digital age is an EXTREMELY important part of establishing a fan base.
is any way the images to show up whe you share them in other social media like facebook?
Disqus network it was excellent way to communicate on different topic’s and business blog.
Just update my profile according to your tips. Thank you.
I have been looking for ways to make my profile more attractive. I added an Avatar and filled out my personal information section with things that aren’t necessarily true but are good for a laugh. What more can I do to make my profile more complete.
http://www.profilemediagroup.com/displays.html
Things that are good for a laugh will help your profile stand out Sampson. I say go for it!
I really like Disqus especially that I don’t have to wait for page reloads when I have a heap of comments to reply to on my site which can be quite time consuming. I also love that once I’m logged in I stay logged in for any Disqus site I may visit. Disqus just makes things a lot easier all round
Great article but images are not visible 🙁
Hi Belinda,
Thank you for this write-up. Thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
Regards,
Hafiz
Wery great tips for me, I’m Copywriter in Poland 🙂