IntenseDebate is a service from Automatic which is a robust featured commenting system which has lots of advantages to improve your blog visibility, traffic, loyal visitors and many more. There are many popular blog using this, but I have not yet implemented it for a simple reason that I have not yet tried this service. Today I have spend some time studying the features of this service, so probably I may think of testing it out on one of my blogs.
Features of IntenseDebate Commenting System
- Threaded Comments – Its a Wordpress core features, just need to enable it with a theme that supports this feature
- Reply by Email – Something very useful which I have implemented on my Kish Multi Plugin
- Email Notifications – Subscribe to comments, takes care of this currently
- Commentator Profiles – Thats interesting
- Moderation and Blacklisting – Something better than the core Wordpress feature
- Reputation Points and comment voting
- Plugins API
- Twitter – Commentators can send a tweet when they comment, thats interesting, twitter can help you with great traffic
- RSS – Read comments using your favourite RSS reader
- Widget – Helpful for displaying blog comments stats
Check out this excellent Video Tutorial on Installing IntenseDebate on Wordpress
